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Local Lacrosse Company M|11 Miller Lacrosse Gearing up for the Lax Season

As the winter is upon us, M|11 Miller Lacrosse and local coach Brady Miller are already thinking of the spring and summer seasons.

Greenwich, CT

January 25, 2016 12:34 pm ET

Coach Miller and his staff of local, recently graduated, lacrosse players are going over their practice strategies and getting excited.

They are looking very forward to a new season of lacrosse. “I enjoy being outside, teaching and instructing. It is a really great to watch my players have fun and improve. I love the excitement and promise of a new season,” says Coach Miller.

Coach Miller comes from a family that has a long and storied history with lacrosse. It is the type of family that is hard to come by these days - a family of 12 children spanning 24 years. Similar to the children of Greenwich, the Miller kids were full of energy and involved in football, hockey, skiing, and especially lacrosse from a very early age. “Sports were a very big part of our lives growing up. They taught us discipline, teamwork, and the benefits of hard work,” said Coach Miller.

All of the children went on to play varsity athletics and Division I sports - lacrosse being the number choice. Coach Miller (number 11 in the line-up) enjoyed the game so much that he went on to start Miller Lacrosse (M11). Coach Miller has been living and working in Greenwich now since 2009, building his brand and reputation as a dedicated youth coach admired by the players and respected by the parents. “Greenwich is a very special community, the players are dedicated, fun, and willing to learn, and the parents couldn’t be more supportive,” says Coach Miller. You will often see Miller Lacrosse camp and clinic donations at fundraisers all over the town. “Greenwich has done a great deal for me and my family and I want to support the community however I can,” he said.

The Miller Lacrosse method works for both beginner and advanced players. Instruction is geared to help the player develop both technical and tactical game skills in real time situations. Coaching incorporates competitive drills and games so that the player stays engaged, has fun, and is challenged during each session.

M11 Miller Lacrosse runs travel teams for youth boys and girls. His teams allow all players the time to grow and learn in a supportive and fun environment. Coach Miller also holds morning instructional summer camps in Greenwich, Martha’s Vineyard, Nantucket, and Montauk.

M|11 is a local business that makes a point to hire young adults in the community to coach and mentor its youth lacrosse programs. “Hiring local benefits everyone. It give the young players someone to look up to and offers a work opportunity to young adults just starting out,” says Coach Miller. For more information about Coach Miller’s philosophy on coaching, his summer teams and summer camps, and employment opportunities visit www.millerlacrosse.com

SHU to study head impacts of lacrosse players

SENORS ON PIONEER HELMETS WILL REGISTER HITS
Westchester & Fairfield County Business Jounral 
By Bill Fallon
December 21, 2015

Uploading data from lacrosse helmet sensors are, from left, athletic training student Sydney Judkins; Prof. Theresa Miyashita, director of the athletic training program; and Kaitlyn Marrie, head athletic trainer for the men’s lacrosse team. Photo by Tracy Deer-Mirek

Football head injuries have been garnering the headlines lately. Now Sacred Heart University in Fairfield will help determine if another sport might also be bad for the brain.
U.S. Lacrosse, the sport’s Maryland-based governing body, has awarded Sacred Heart University’s athletic training education program a $15,000 grant to study the effects of on-the-field head impacts over the course of the Pioneers’ college men’s lacrosse season.
Students in the program will work with professors and staff to collect data throughout the spring 2016 season by using helmet-mounted impact sensors during games and practices. The study, which is titled “The Effect of Cumulative Impacts on Vestibular Ocular Reflex in Division I Men’s Lacrosse Players,” will be managed by Theresa Miyashita, director of the SHU athletic training education program, with help from Clinical Assistant Professor Eleni Diakogeorgiou and Kaitlyn Marrie, SHU athletic trainer.
“Little research has been focused on lacrosse, and it is the fastest-growing team sport in the U.S.,” Miyashita said. “It is a high-contact, equipment-intensive sport that needs more research.” Miyashita has particular insight, and affinity, for health in lacrosse players; her husband is a former professional player who is now assistant coach of the SHU men’s team.
U.S. Lacrosse awarded the grant to allow SHU to purchase the equipment needed to conduct the research, including helmet sensors to record the severity and frequency of head impacts and a system for pre- and post-testing athletes for head injury.
Miyashita said she is excited about the research as both an educational experience for the students and for its potential effects on the future health of lacrosse players at all levels.
“We have a great group here doing some really interesting research on a very important and hot topic,” she said. “Our primary goal is to investigate the potential cumulative effects of sub-concussive impacts on collegiate lacrosse players, ultimately to improve player safety.”

http://westfaironline.com/76489/shu-to-study-possible-connection-between-lacrosse-and-brain-injuries/