New additions to ECAC leauge

Lacrosse is one of the fastest growing sports in America. Sporting stores have to order more lacrosse equipment all the time just to keep up with the demand. The ECAC league is the eastern cost athletic conference. This really has nothing to do geographically because there are teams from the eastern border to Denver Colorado. The league is looking to expand with two brand new division one teams. The two new teams are Michigan and High Point. The league is to expand so they can get more national attention. “It’s difficult to say because the schools that make up the ECAC all belong to other primary conferences,” Keeling said. “If the Big Ten would come up with a lacrosse conference it would have to take Ohio State and that would change the dynamic. We want to be one of the strongest conferences in the country.” This league could be great with all of the different geologic locations.

http://insidelacrosse.com/news/2011/04/27/ecac-expansion-likely-horizon-could-include-michigan-high-point

Martin hits it big

In the lacrosse world if you don’t play division one, two or three you are probably not that good. You will not have a future in lacrosse if you did not play NCAA lacrosse. Conner Martin played club lacrosse in California at Chapman University and is one of the biggest rising names there is. He first hit the lacrosse scene will making videos on You Tube about the life of a California lacrosse player. He is going to be joining one of the upcoming lacrosse brands in Flow Society. Conner said “From my head to my toes I can’t feel my legs! That is how excited I is to be a part of Flow Society. They are a brand that aligns very well with what I do as an athlete and with my Con Bro Chill nonsense. The way they love our game, have fun and deliver loud, bright colored gear m makes my head spin with all of the possibilities and fun we are going to have. At the end of the day, they want to support me being me, and I’m ecstatic about that. This is going to be Boom Town.” He is really excited about this whole process. He is living the dream in being sponsored by a lacrosse company and being able to play in both the indoor and outdoor professional leagues. 

 http://insidelacrosse.com/news/2011/04/06/flow-society-announces-brand-collaboration-with-connor-martin

Players get fair trial

The Duke lacrosse case is known around to the country as a dark time for lacrosse. Players from one of the best teams in the nation were accused of raping a stripper. The facts of this story are crazy and the city of Durham rushed too quick into the case. The city had some sort of grudge against this team and decided to try and bring the heaviest punishment they could. In the end this backfired. A US judge is now letting the players file a civil rights violations case.The judge said about the police "singled out as especially serious the players' charge that authorities may have rigged or fabricated evidence to support stripper Crystal Mangum's false report that she'd been raped at a team party." This gave people a bad view of lacrosse and these players do deserve something.

http://www.heraldsun.com/view/full_story/12584208/article-Judge-rules-on-lacrosse-suits?instance=homesecondleft