Randolph Lax Gives Back!

This past Sunday, our team helped out a local private school town, the Virginia Episcopal School for their event Lax for Alzheimer’s Play Day. The head girl’s lacrosse team for VES, Justine Button, organized this event for middle school and high school girl’s lacrosse teams to play at.  Some teams came from an hour and a half away to participate in this day so we were very excited to work with them.

The first horn was blown at 12:30pm to kick start this amazing day off.  Throughout the day there were four games that play at a time; each lasting for 20 minutes. During these games, our jobs were to coach, ref, and cheer on the girls.  One of our favorite parts of the day was coaching because we really got to connect with the girls and answer their questions, as they were willing to learn and improve.  

One of our seniors, Nushaa Kaz ‘14, has coached some of these girls before on the JAB club team and was great with them at this play day. In her own words, “Coaching for JAB is always a blast; from the great energy the girls bring on the field to how excited they are just to be playing that day. They always work so hard and show such a passion for lacrosse, even the little ones, it just makes it an overall enjoyable time for all of us. Even being able to just catch up with them and see what they have been up to, and see how much they are growing on and off the field is a great reason to participate in this activity.”

Besides coaching, some of our teammates got to referee games.  It was a great experience for us because they had official referees there to correct us.  This will help us with our own game of college lacrosse because it allowed us to see the game from a different perspective.  

At the end of the day a few of our players held a clinic with our coaches, Coach Wagner and Coach Windsor.  We did a shooting drill and a 2 vs. 2 drill as well as our favorite one, box drill.  This enabled us to work one on one with the girls and help them work on things that they individually needed improvement on.  This also gave the girls an opportunity to ask questions, which they had plenty of.

Overall, we had a great time.  Not only was it great team bonding, but we got to help our community and support a great cause.  We look forward to doing it again next year along with holding our own Fall Classic on November 3^{rd *}.  We hope to see some of you out there for that!

 *If you are interested in attending the 2013 Fall Classic, please contact Coach Wagner at awagner@randolphcollege.edu*