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Breaking: Uganda Announces Staff for FIL World Championships

By Lacrosse Playground | November 1, 2013 |
Sserunkuma has named Andrew Boston (Peace Corps, Delaware) as Head Coach with a strong supporting cast of assistants in Tom Schreiber (Princeton), Tanner Scales (Virginia) and Casey Lavallee (Hebron, CT). Read More...

Jamaica Lacrosse Falls to American Squad in Inaugural Friendship Games

By Lacrosse Playground | August 12, 2013 |
KINGSTON, Jamaica – History was made earlier this week as St. George’s College played host to the first ever Jamaica Friendship Games, which pitted the Jamaica Select U-19 boys team against a squad from the USA that was in Jamaica as part of the Lacrosse Volunteer Corps program run by the non-profit organization, Fields of Growth. Read More...
Fields of Growth's Kevin Dugan Reveals Future Plans in Jamaica

Fields of Growth’s Kevin Dugan Reveals Future Plans in Uganda and Jamaica

By Lacrosse Playground | January 18, 2013 |
Fields of Growth is a great organization with an even better mission. The organization has done development programs and community based projects in Uganda and Jamaica. Read More...
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Uganda Lacrosse Team Names Steinhardt General Manager

By Lacrosse Playground | August 29, 2012 |
Kampala, Uganda - The Uganda Lacrosse Union (ULU) is proud to announce the naming of Tyler Steinhardt as the General Manager for the Uganda Men’s National Lacrosse Team. Steinhardt was recommended by the ULU board to President Davis Kamoga who recently announced the appointment at the second annual King’s Cup Championship. Serving in this role, Steinhardt will be responsible for selecting, operating and bringing a team to the 2014 World Games in Denver, Colorado. Read More...

Fields Of Growth International: Uganda National Championship

By Lacrosse Playground | August 15, 2012 |
Fields of Growth Intl. is a charitable organization with community based partnerships in Uganda, East Africa. The organization, founded by Kevin Dugan, believes that people were put on this earth to share our passion, joy and gifts with the less fortunate. One of Fields of Growth's vehicles to do this is lacrosse. Recently, the second annual Kings Cup transpired over the weekend in Uganda. Read More...

Travel, Play, Give Back: Princeton Heads To Costa Rica

By Lacrosse Playground | June 8, 2012 |
The motto on the top of the itinerary for Zag Sports reads "Travel. Play. Give Back," and that's exactly what the Princeton men's lacrosse team will be doing for a week. Read More...

Princeton Lax Partners With Fields Of Growth For Equipment Drive Saturday

By Lacrosse Playground | April 27, 2012 |
If you have a youth lacrosse player, then you probably have a garage cluttered with old lacrosse equipment. To make some space for the next round of clutter, bring the old equipment to Princeton Saturday evening in a win-win-win situation. Read More...

Charity Lacrosse Collaborates with Fields of Growth

By Lacrosse Playground | April 4, 2012 |
Chapel Hill, NC – April 3rd, 2012 Established in early 2012, the non-profit sports organization Charity Lacrosse unites the philanthropic efforts of the lacrosse community. The goals of the organization are to raise awareness and funds for charities through lacrosse, promote all charity driven lacrosse events, and provide scholarships to fund the higher education of promising male and female athletes. Read More...

Fields of Growth: A Day In The Lax…In Uganda (Video)

By Lacrosse Playground | October 20, 2011 |
This Summer Fields Of Growth (FTL) visited Uganda to teach and spread the game of lacrosse. Fields of Growth works with the close-knit lacrosse community throughout the world to build relationships with some of the top athletes with some of the most vulnerable children in the world. Read More...

Fields of Growth Update # 1 – John Christmas Checks In From Kampala

By Lacrosse Playground | August 15, 2011 |
John Christmas is a professional lacrosse player on the LXM Tour and Pro Rep for Maverik Lacrosse. He is currently traveling through Uganda, East Africa with Fields of Growth, and serving as the head men’s clinician for the D’Accardi Clinics sponsored by the Federation of International Lacrosse to support the development of the Uganda Lacrosse Union. Read More...

Maverik’s Christmas Heading Off To Uganda With Fields of Growth

By Lacrosse Playground | August 8, 2011 |
NEW YORK – August 8, 2011 – Maverik athlete and lacrosse ambassador John Christmas is off to Uganda this week with Fields of Growth founder and former Notre Dame midfielder Kevin Dugan. John will be assisting Dugan in his efforts to grow lacrosse in Uganda while also performing much needed development work in rural Ugandan villages. Read More...

Fields of Growth Lacrosse Clinic-Charlotte, NC

By Lacrosse Playground | February 7, 2011 |
University of North Carolina senior defenseman Ryan Flanagan is organizing a lacrosse clinic here in Charlotte to benefit the Fields of Growth International program, a non-profit organization that operates in Southwest Uganda and with which Ryan recently completed a mission trip during the fall semester of 2010. Keep Reading...