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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/

A fun Lacrosse Clinic in the fall. Great job boy's

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USILA DI Coaches Poll

http://www.insidelacrosse.com/article/usila-di-coaches-poll-denver-is-preseason-no-1/30528

Rank		Name	Points
1		Denver (0-0)	274 (0)
2		Notre Dame (0-0)	271 (0)
3		Duke (0-0)	268 (0)
4		Syracuse (0-0)	244 (0)
5		Johns Hopkins (0-0)	238 (0)
6		North Carolina (0-0)	234 (0)
7		Loyola (0-0)	198 (0)
8		Maryland (0-0)	191 (0)
9		Virginia (0-0)	189 (0)
10		Cornell (0-0)	177 (0)
11		Harvard (0-0)	134 (0)
12		Albany (0-0)	112 (0)
13		Penn (0-0)	105 (0)
14		Penn State (0-0)	69 (0)
15		Yale (0-0)	68 (0)
16		Drexel (0-0)	65 (0)
17		Hofstra (0-0)	57 (0)
18		Lehigh (0-0)	54 (0)
19		Bryant (0-0)	44 (0)
20		Army (0-0)	40 (0)

A Great Article

Lifestyles: Rorke Denver the Ultimate Warrior

Navy SEAL and Syracuse alum Rorke Denver ran 192 combat missions in Iraq

by Matt White | LaxMagazine.com | Twitter
Note: A shorter version of this Q&A appeared in the November 2014 issue of Lacrosse Magazine. To begin your subscription, join US Lacrosse today.
Rorke Denver has always taken the hard way.
Raised in California in the 1980s when lacrosse was rare there, he became an All-American defenseman at Syracuse. After college, he joined the Navy to be a SEAL and led multiple combat deployments to Afghanistan and Iraq. Now in the reserves, he has written a book ("Damn Few: Making the Modern SEAL Warrior"), starred in a movie ("Act of Valor") and speaks to corporate audiences about his experiences.

You grew up in California's Bay Area. How did you find the game and end up at Syracuse?

I played water polo in high school and was being recruited by big California schools to play that sport. My sophomore year, there was a sign outside my English class that a lacrosse club was starting. I took to it fast, and the game really clicked for me. After my junior year, my dad said, "Just for fun, do you want to go to a camp this summer?" I went to Syracuse's lacrosse camp, and it was wild. I thought I was going to get eaten alive out there. At end of the first week, coach Roy Simmons Jr. came up to me and said, "You're from where?" He said, "You're big and fast and can definitely play at this level." It all fell into place.

It worked out. You were an honorable mention All-American in 1996.

I'm really proud of this. It's kind of a strange concept, when you go on to do things like SEALs. But I feel like for those lacrosse lists, the names are sealed in the envelope before the season starts. I didn't have a pedigree. I was just grinding it out.

When did you decide to become a SEAL?

My granddad was a B-24 Liberator guy in the Pacific and was killed in action, as most of those guys were. So I had it in the family, but it was not a lifelong calling as it is for some people.
My senior year at Syracuse, my dad sent me a paperback copy of Winston Churchill's "My Early Life." [Churchill] was in the Frontier wars in the Pakistan-India border wars, and the Boer wars in Africa, where he was captured and escaped. I just put that book down and knew I wanted to serve.
I heard about a little program where they make Naval commandos down in Southern California where about 80 percent of the people don't make it. Those sounded like the right odds to me.

What action did you see?

The most aggressive and violent tour was summer of 2006 in Iraq. I was a platoon commander in Al Anbar. Just unbelievable events and output from our team, with Medals of Honor and too many Silver and Bronze stars to even count. Very kinetic engagements, taking out bad guys but also partnering with some of the sheiks and tribal warlords to get those tribal awakenings to happen. We went from a time when you couldn't go outside the wire without being in a gunfight to, six months after our deployment, people are walking around Rhymadi with no body armor.
We ran 192 combat missions in those seven months: sniper overwatch, direct-action assaults every other night, just full kinetic, which doesn't win wars, but it does move the needle.

A study commissioned by the SEALs found that, statistically, lacrosse players fare well in training. Why is that?

It is a warrior game. Having gone to Syracuse, I know [Onondaga] Chief [Oren] Lyons and some of the tribal elders who care for this game. And while they don't say it's a war game, it has those combative roots, a gift from the creator that was based on toughness and physicality.
You got all these positions: defensemen, attackmen, faceoff specialist, goalie. Same thing in a special ops team: You got snipers, you got your breachers, you got communications specialists, a medic in there. It's the ultimate sport for any military service, and definitely for special operations.

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In 14 years as a Navy SEAL officer, Rorke Denver faced drug lords in Latin America, violent mobs in Liberia and terrorists in Iraq and Afghanistan. From Hell Week to hero, Denver’s book, “Damn Few: Making the Modern SEAL Warrior,” takes you inside an elite brotherhood and demonstrates the challenges of modern warfare. Lacrosse fans will find familiarity in anecdotal references to Denver’s time playing for legend Roy Simmons Jr. at Syracuse (1993-96) and his appreciation for Native American culture. “Damn Few,” co-authored by Denver and Ellis Henican, made The New York Times best seller list in March 2013.

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