Welcome to SYC Lacrosse!
 As we receive information regarding our lacrosse program, we will post it here. Information is constantly updated - Please check back often!  After you have reviewed our web pages, please feel free to contact us with additional questions. 
 
Established in 1983, SYC Lacrosse is run by volunteers dedicated to the sport and to our communities families. We encourage - and rely on - your participation to help us provide an outstanding lacrosse program. Please click here to see how you can help out.*
 
"Lacrosse is a developer of health and strength. It is a game that spectators rave over once they understand it." -famed football coach, Glen (Pop) Warner

 

 

SYC and Modell's Team Weeks
SYC and Modell’s are teaming together to provide SYC lacrosse players’ discounts at Modell’s Sporting Goods. The program starts Friday, February 5th and runs thru Thursday, March 4th.  During this time, you will receive 15% off any purchases made (even sale items!) What a great way to save money AND help the club at the same time! Just present the coupon at the time of purchase. Coupon can be used multiple times at any Modell’s location in DC, MD, or VA and also counts toward earning MVP points.
 
Thanks for your support
SYC Lacrosse
 
Spring 2010 Registration

Please read our Program Guide and click here for general information before registering. 

Please click here to register.

Registration Fees ~ Register early and save money!

Register Jan. 19, 12 am – Feb 5, 11:59 pm 

Boys U9-U15: $181              

Girls U9-U15: $146

Coed House, U7: $81

 

Late Registration (Feb. 6, 12 am - March 7, 11:59 pm)

Boys U9-U15:  $201              

Girls U9-U15:  $166

Coed House, U7:  $81

Unlike other youth clubs, SYC provides boys lacrosse equipment to its registered players at no additional rental fee.

Family discount:  Families registering more than one child will receive a $20 discount for each additional child. 

Travel Team Sizes  ~ Register early to secure your spot on a team!  To ensure we are able to form teams with the appropriate number of players on travel (U9-U15) teams, after we reach the below numbers, players will be waitlisted (a) to ensure we do not have teams with too many, or too few, players; and (b) to help ensure that we have volunteers coaching each team.  Waitlists will be notified and registered when we confirm we have enough players and coaches for each team.

Boys U9         30                Girls U9         20

Boys U11       57                Girls U11        20

Boys U13       72                Girls U13        20

Boys U15       57                Girls U15        20

      

Read the rest of this article for age breakdowns and important information about league rules.


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Lacrosse Equipment & Uniforms

Sessions have been scheduled to issue boys equipment to Spring 2010 players and collect gear from Summer-Fall 2009 players: 

Thursday Jan 28

  • 6:30-7:30: U7, U9, U11
  • 7:30-8:30: U13
  • 8:30-9:00: U15

Players must attend to try gear on and don’t forget your "hold" check (see below).  Players that have rented gear for off-season programs must attend to get game shorts and update paperwork ~ those failing to attend will be assessed a $25 late fee.  Please attend during your scheduled time if at all possible to limit lines!  We need your help handing out gear.  Please contact Dave Hemmer if you can help - thank you!

General Equipment Guidelines: Please read these guidelines carefully to save yourself time and money. 


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Coach Dennis Stewart, the Director of Operations for TripleEDGE Lacrosse, is known in most Northern Virginia lacrosse circles as simply, "Coach."  When we speak of Coach, most people in the lacrosse community know who we are talking about.  We’re talking about the man who sets the standard for all other lacrosse coaches - a man who is larger than life, who has an undying passion, limitless knowledge, and pure love for the great game of lacrosse.  He’s someone who is never at a loss for words, a quick joke, or an amusing lacrosse anecdote.  Every young player who has passed through the doors of the SYC Lacrosse program has benefited from Coach’s expertise, whether he or she attended a TripleEDGE camp, clinic, or league game, or was taught by an SYC lacrosse coach who learned about coaching the game directly or indirectly from Coach.

On Friday, Sep 25, while preparing for a weekend of lacrosse, Coach suffered a serious stroke.  He was taken to the ER in Prince William Hospital and then flown by helicopter to INOVA Fairfax Hospital’s Neuro Science Intensive Care Unit.  He is currently in stable but serious condition.  Coach, his mother, his three brothers, Patrick, Pete and Paul, and their families, could use our prayers.  Coach is strong, and a stubborn competitor, but he has a tough battle ahead and he needs our support.  Please take a moment to remember Coach and his family in your prayers - thank you!

To follow Coach’s progress, and to post messages of encouragement, please go to INOVA Health System’s CarePages’ web page for Coach Dennis.  Cards and pictures can be sent to Coach Dennis Stewart, INOVA Fairfax Hospital, NSICU, Room #8, 3300 Gallows Road, Falls Church, VA 22042.     

    

For more information, please see the following links:

Washington Post Article

Ohio State Buckeyes Article

Check Out These Great Photos

Please click here for some great action photography of the Spring 2009 season.  At the Memory Makers home page, select "Action Photos" and "Lacrosse" - the password is "syc2009."  There are also action photos posted from the 2008 Spring season - the password for 2008 photos is "syclax2008."  Enjoy! 

Congratulations SYC Lacrosse!

 
2009 NVYLL U11B Southeast Champions

Spring 2009 was a great season for the SYC Lacrosse program.  We extend our deepest thanks and appreciation to all of you for making it an incredibly successful season, and look forward to working with you in 2009-10 to have even greater success in Spring 2010.  Please be sure to check out our articles on summer, fall and winter lacrosse opportunities throughout the year.  Have a great summer. 


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Coach Curtis Donnel
Recipient of the 2009 Paul Westlein Award for Volunteerism

Thank you, Coach Donnel, for your valued service to SYC sports programs!


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TripleEDGE Lacrosse
We highly recommend participating in leagues, clinics, training, and other programs offered by TripleEDGE Lacrosse, one of the area's best providers of off-season lacrosse programs.  Please see the TripleEDGE web site for more details. 

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Sponsorship Program

Our annual lacrosse fundraising program enables us to offer a top-notch youth lacrosse program and provide high-quality equipment and uniforms while still keep registration fees affordable for our families.  The money raised through our fundraising efforts is vital to the success of our program and we depend on the active participation of all our lacrosse families to ensure our long-term success.  As an incentive for your participation, all of our teams can earn free embroidered team jackets, tee-shirts, and yearbooks if they reach certain fundraising milestones.  For more information please click on the link below.  Thank you for your support!


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Practice Fields
We Need Your Help!
There is a severe shortage of practice fields available to SYC Lacrosse.  To help us ease the strain, please contact Dave Janas if you can arrange for practice space on a field controlled by a homeowners association, church, military base, or any group other than Fairfax County.  Thank you!
Green Team Volunteers Needed

SYC has made significant investments and taken considerable time and effort to develop and improve the quality and safety of our rectangular fields. We need your help to protect these investments and create opportunities to do more at other SYC fields. We have brought portions of our field maintenance and upkeep in-house and need a cadre of volunteers to be part of that program to help groom the rectangular fields at Hooes Road Park and Coach Bob Elseth Field (near Greensprings Village).


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A Call for New Coaches
Please join us - if you are enthusiastic about lacrosse, and like kids, coaching is for you!  Free training and other resources are available throughout the year.  You’ll find coaching lots of fun and very rewarding!

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Stick Doctor Program
New and younger players:  Having trouble throwing, catching or controlling the ball?  Have you spent countless hours throwing against a wall but it doesn't seem to help much?  Maybe your lacrosse stick is sick.  Please click here for the cure. 
 
Experienced and older players:  do you adjust your own stick pockets, string your own sticks?  Would you like to help younger players, and earn a few extra bucks?  Please click here to apply to be an SYC Lacrosse stick surgeon. 
Partnering with Physical Education Instructors
Promoting Lacrosse in Our Community
SYC Lacrosse is pleased to offer physical education instructors in grades K-8 our lacrosse starter package.  We'll loan elementary or middle school instructors 12 soft lacrosse sticks, 6 balls and the instructor's choice of an instructional video, DVD or book from our lacrosse library.  Our goal is to promote the sport in our community.*  All we ask in return is that instructors return the materials at the end of their week or two-week instructional period.  Please contact Dave Janas if you are interested.  Parents, please pass this opportunity on to your child's physical education teachers.
 
*Our community includes ES and MS that feed into Edison, Hayfield, Lake Braddock, Lee, South County and West Springfield HS.

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