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Harlem Lacrosse and Leadership: Harlem Bowl

Harlem Lacrosse and Leadership: Harlem Bowl

By Lacrosse Playground | November 13, 2013 |
The first annual Harlem Bowl is on Saturday, November 23rd, at Randall's Island, Field 90. Support our Harlem Lacrosse and Leadership (“HLL”) kids as the girls’ squads of Frederick Douglass Academy I (“FDA”) and P.S. 149 the Sojourner Truth School (“Truth”) face off against each other, as well as FDA’s boys taking on the Truth’s boys afterwards. Read More...

Lacrosse is Changing Lives in Harlem, NY: #SportsMatter

By Lacrosse Playground | August 5, 2015 |

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Epoch Lacrosse and deBeer Lacrosse Partner Together for the Holidays

By Lacrosse Playground | December 18, 2014 |
Minneapolis, MN – December 18, 2014 – Epoch Lacrosse and deBeer Women’s Lacrosse are partnering together this holiday season to give custom new sticks to 100 girls in the Harlem Lacrosse & Leadership program. Epoch will be providing their state-of-the-art Dragonfly carbon fiber shafts and deBeer will be completing the sticks with their latest Rapture heads. Read More...

Dave Dobbins Joins 3d Lacrosse as Director of Connecticut

By Lacrosse Playground | September 17, 2014 |
DENVER, COLO. (September 17, 2014) – Former Ohio State University Associate Head Coach Dave Dobbins has left The Buckeyes to become Director of Connecticut for 3d Lacrosse, the nation’s fastest-growing lacrosse training, events and club team operations Company. 3d Lacrosse already serves hundreds of athletes in the Connecticut and Tri-State area. He will also bring his considerable experience in community service to help develop 3d Lacrosse’s burgeoning social responsibility efforts headed by John Bayreuther, 3d Lacrosse’s Director of Club Player Advancement. Read More...
Harlem Lacrosse & Leadership Featured on CBS Evening News

Harlem Lacrosse & Leadership Featured on CBS Evening News

By Lacrosse Playground | May 5, 2014 |
For many young students in New York City's Harlem neighborhood, lacrosse is a sport they never knew existed. And as Anne-Marie Green explains, it's changing their lives, one game at a time. Read More...

NJ Home Field Advantage Donates Indoor Field Time to Harlem Lacrosse & Leadership Girls’ Lacrosse Program

By Lacrosse Playground | March 6, 2014 |
Ramsey, NJ, March 6, 2014 – When the snowy conditions in the New York area last week threatened to cancel the Harlem Lacrosse & Leadership (HLL) girls lacrosse programs clinic with players from the Immaculate Heart Academy (IHA), NJ Home Field Advantage in Ramesy, NJ, opened its doors and donated the hard to come by indoor turf time. Read More...

US Lacrosse Among Founding Members of New Urban Lacrosse Alliance

By Lacrosse Playground | January 28, 2014 |
BALTIMORE, Jan. 28, 2014 – Consistent with its strategic goal to help foster increased diversity and inclusion efforts within the game, US Lacrosse has committed to being a charter member of the Urban Lacrosse Alliance (ULA), which pulls together like-minded organizations dedicated to expanding lacrosse opportunities for urban youth. US Lacrosse will partner with the ULA’s other member organizations to grow the game through shared strategies and the exchange of best practices. Read More...

Harlem Lacrosse & Leadership Launches Crowdsource Campaign to Fund Girls’ Program Raises $20,000 in Less Than a Week

By Lacrosse Playground | September 24, 2013 |
NEW YORK, September 24, 2013 – Harlem Lacrosse & Leadership (HLL), is proud to that announce that it has raised $20,000 in less than a weeks time to fund and support its first full time girls lacrosse program at PS/MS 149 – The Sojourner Truth School. HLL used an Indiegogo campaign to reach its fundraising goal in record breaking time. Read More...

US Lacrosse Announces 2013 Soft Stick Lacrosse Equipment Grant Recipients

By Lacrosse Playground | September 20, 2013 |
BALTIMORE, Sept. 19, 2013 — US Lacrosse today announced that 136 schools and civic organizations across 38 states have been selected as 2013 Physical Education and Soft Stick Lacrosse Equipment Grant recipients. Each organization will receive modified "soft" lacrosse sticks and balls, as well as instructional guides and DVDs to help support the introduction of the sport in their curriculums. Read More...

Support Harlem Lacrosse & Leadership with the New York Lizards

By Lacrosse Playground | June 11, 2013 |
Harlem, NY — June 10, 2013 — On June 13, 25 middle school boys from Harlem, NYC, will share a field with the New York Lizards and the Scarsdale Youth Lacrosse Program to support summer academic intervention and lacrosse training for boys and girls in Harlem. Read More...

Harlem Lacrosse & Leadership Team Headed to the University of Virginia

By Lacrosse Playground | March 5, 2013 |
NEW YORK, March 5, 2013 -- On March 7th, lacrosse-playing students from Harlem will be traveling to University of Virginia with the Harlem Lacrosse & Leadership (HLL) program for a two day, horizon-broadening on-campus stay. The thirty middle school students hail from P.S. / M.S. 149 – The Sojourner Truth School, whose new team is coached by Wyatt Melzer, a 2012 graduate of The University of Virginia and a member of the school’s 2011 National Championship-winning team. Read More...

Harlem Shake Video Actually Made In Harlem

By Lacrosse Playground | February 19, 2013 |
Lacrosse-playing students from Harlem Lacrosse & Leadership (HLL) practice on the concrete handball courts outside their Harlem (NYC) public school. After a long week of study halls leading up to their first outdoor practices, coaches decided that the students had earned a little dance break. This is what happened next... Read More...