Lacrosse Playground

At the end of every one of her sports camps, Stanford women’s lacrosse coach Amy Bokker always heard the same question from campers: “Coach, what specifically can I work on to make me a better player?” Bokker offered campers detailed, hand-written evaluations of her week-long camp with a few tips tossed in. But she often wondered if it might be more constructive to recap the week by showing campers how they could improve rather than just telling them in words. Read More…

It probably came as no surprise to hoop fans that perennial powerhouse Duke was at the forefront of the technology revolution, becoming the first college program to use a cutting-edge iPad app from SportsBoard to tally stats live while at practices or games and produce “Moneyball”-like analytics. Not many in the lacrosse world would have guessed Christopher Newport University —a Division III college in Virginia that didn’t even win half its games last year—would be the birthplace of the “Moneyball” era in college lacrosse. Read More…

When the iPad showed up at national recruiting events last fall, many men’s college lacrosse coaches viewed it as a novelty that would never replace the trustworthy clipboard or player packet as a note-taking tool. But as summer recruiting has heated up, a growing number of coaches are evaluating potential recruits using their iPad instead of a scribble in their packets. Read More…

Homewood, CA. June 8, 2012 — West Shore Technologies, Inc. today announced its latest lacrosse partnership with the 2012 Under Armour All-America Lacrosse Classic and Corrigan Sports Enterprises (CSE). This partnership enables college coaches to use SportsBoardTM Lacrosse Scout, West Shore’s patent-pending iPad scouting and assessment application, to download player profile data from the SportsBoard Server to their iPads to assess student athletes participating in the following Under Armour Underclass Elite tryouts. Read More…

Homewood, CA. March 20, 2012 — West Shore Technologies, Inc. today announced a partnership with Aloha Tournaments‘ Brine Summer Sizzle Lacrosse Tournament on July 13-15, 2012 and the Warrior Diamond Lacrosse Showcase on November 17-18, 2012. This partnership will enable college coaches using SportsBoardTM Lacrosse Scout, West Shore’s patent-pending iPad scouting and assessment application, to obtain player profile data that will be pre-loaded in their iPads. Read More…

Todd Boward left his job as a network engineer for a defense contractor in Northern Virginia to pursue a dream, teaching the game he loved–lacrosse–to college players. But after a year as men’s lacrosse coach at Christopher Newport University, Boward realized he had become more of a data entry clerk than a lacrosse coach. Every time Boward returned to Newport News, Va. from a recruiting tournament, he would set aside a full day to transfer player evaluation data from his notepad to an excel spread sheet. Read More…