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English Lacrosse Presentation Preparation

StructureNational

English Lacrosse has seen an expansion of sport in the last five yearswhere participation has increased moving towards getting national coverage

on television ,The National Development Programme has been the maindriver for

this expansion of the sport by ensuring that people are introduced

to Lacrosse, encouraged to participate and how toKeep playing, coaching or volunteering.

English Lacrosse is the joint national governing body for Mensand Womens Lacrosse in England, it was formed in 1996 by the

joining together of the All England Womens Lacrosse AssociationAnd the English Lacrosse Union, which is the mens governing body.

Regional

Regionally there are minimal amounts of lacrosse clubs, lacrosse only havetwo clubs per region, this is the unfortunate result of un-interested parties

Lacrosse within the UK are trying to develop more teams for youngerparticipants, which in the long run is beneficial for the clubs with olderparticipants because when these younger participants get older, theyll

become the older participants and therell be new youngsters in the youngerclubs.

Local

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For lacrosse, locally there is a league that people can participate within,whether it is for competitive reasons or just as a recreational sport or maybe

even just to keep fit and healthy.There are 3 main lacrosse clubs in Bath, these clubs are:

Bath Mens lacrosse clubBath eights

Bath Ladies lacrosse club.

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FunctionsWhole Sport Plan Start, Stay, SucceedEnglish Lacrosses vision or plan is to make lacrosse one of the biggest

sports within the UK, other sporting governing bodies such as Fifa or theRFU dont have too try so hard because they are already the biggest twosporting governors within the UK and dont really need to be improvedupon because they already have such a wide basis.

The way that lacrosse associations are going to do this is by increasing

participation for all.

Rule-makingThe Rules of play are the responsibility of the Mens Playing Committee

and Womens Playing Committee, following as closely as is practicableand desirable.

The Rules, including any revision made from time to time, has beenprepared and published by the Association and issued to member Clubsand Associations. Every member club and Association shall be bound toplay the game in accordance with, and be bound by, these rules.

TechnicalDEVELOPMENT

Formulate and administer the annual Development Programme

Appoint Regional Development OfficersAppoint Local Development Officers / School Coaching OfficersDevelopment Work ProgrammePOP Lacrosse Programme COACHINGFormulate Coaching Policy

Provide Coaching StructureProvide Coaches :RecruitTrain

MerchandisingThe following are linked with lacrosse merchandising and selling of products:

Rad sheep sportswear

Kukri

Brine

UK goalsA lot of the products that these companies produce are very expansive

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and a lot of people dont really want to spend the sort of money on themthat is expected by the merchandisers, its an expensive trade for thepeople on the buying end of the deals.So it doesnt surprise me that lacrosse isnt as big as football or rugby orcricket, basketball etc.

Competitions and tournaments

Mens World Championships, Manchester, England ,The 2010 World championships was the biggestInternational Lacrosse event ever staged. Up to 30 teams broughtover 1,000 players and officials to England. The Championship had abudget of 1,500,000 and were the biggest eventheld in Manchester since the 2002 Commonwealth Games creating aConsiderable challenge for the limited resources of English Lacrosse.

Training of officialsFor the young officials award you must be of 14 years or older to coach ateam, the same applies to the introduction of practical lacrosse, the coursecertification needed is the English lacrosse certificate but for the level 1VRQ or above you must be of at least 16 years of age to get to level oneyou must have the introduction to UK qualification and to get to level twoyou need the level one qualification this applies for each level of thecourse you wish to progress too.

You need other qualifications form different various courses if you wish toprogress further than level one.