Rye Youth Lacrosse has merged with Seacoast Lacrosse
As of the fall of 2009, the board members of Rye and Seacoast decided to merge the programs for the common good of the kids to form one program.
Registration is open at: www.seacoastlacrosse.net/Registration/Default.asp
Seacoast Lacrosse can be found at: www.SeacoastLacrosse.net
Rye and Seacoast Lacrosse have been working on combining all girls and boys programs at the U13 and U15 level into a single unified program. The U15 boys have been combined now for several years with great success and the boards of Rye and Seacoast are interested in extending that success to all U13 girls and boys teams.
The primary purpose for the combination is to provide players with an even stronger developmental foundation and provide area players and teams with the opportunity to reach their fullest potential in a way no other club from this part of the state has ever done before.
All SAU 50 towns that attend Portsmouth High School including, Greenland, Newington, New Castle, Portsmouth and Rye would play together in a single regionally-based program beginning at the U13 level and continuing on through High School.
Rye and Seacoast Lacrosse boards have met several times and have unanimously concluded that the combination of the U13 and U15 girls and boys will provide several benefits including:
Developing friendships across area towns:
Our area youth players and families will have the opportunity to make friends, develop respect for each other and create bonds across children and families from area towns beginning in elementary school and lasting all the way through High School.
Larger pool of youth players to draw from will allow several benefits:
Improved competitive leveling: more players will allow for more, tighter bands of skills at each level creating an opportunity to place our young athletes in the most appropriate level for their skills. Improved competitive leveling will better enable our children to develop self esteem, confidence in the sport and enhance their enjoyment for the sport regardless of their level;
Athletes from other sports or new athletes that would like to try lacrosse would be able to start at a competitively appropriate level thereby increasing the prospects for their enjoyment and continued interest in the sport; and
Numbers would allow the combined program to be more competitive in the State at all levels thereby, helping raise the level of play and resulting in a more children playing the sport of lacrosse at a higher level.
Critical mass for organizational structure creating:
More volunteer resources enabling the organization to have a more efficient structure enabling more coaching clinics, player clinics, referee assignments, game scheduling, field lining, etc.;
A larger pool of talented coaches to draw from helping provide consistency and learning across all team and all levels; and
Single unified program representing all of the feeder towns to the Portsmouth High School will enable the program to better coordinate clinics, goals and developmental programs with Portsmouth High lacrosse coaches.
Chuck Allen
