Key Dates 2023 — GREENWICH YOUTH LACROSSE
IMPORTANT NOTES
Check back often as we will be populating additional dates frequently
All dates and times are subject to change due to local and state health regulations and town field availability
All cross program changes will be posted on this page but any individual team changes will be posted on that team’s schedule. Click here to access Schedules for the Travel teams.
REGISTRATION INFORMATION
January 9th, 2023: registration begins with regular fees (2023 Program Fees remain flat from last season…we are a community based program and understand the pressures of the current economic environment)
February 6, 2023: late registration begins with a 50% increase from regular fees for any registrations on or after this date
We do not waive late fees so please register on time
February 26, 2023: Last day to request registration refund.
February 27, 2023: Travel registration ends; House League and Intro to Travel registration continues
travel key dates
March 3 – PCA Night for Coaches (6:00 at Eastern Middle School) – all parents are invited to attend
Travel Tryouts (all 5th – 8th grade players)
Please review the Travel Tryouts page so you are familiar with the process
Tryout #1: March 4, 2023
Tryout #2: March 5, 2023
Tryout #3: March 11, 2023
Tryout #4: March 12, 2023
Subject to change based on field availability
Times and locations posted in News and News Ticker
March 18 & March 19 – Boys and Girls Travel Season Begins
March 15 & March 16 – GYL/GHS Mini Camp for all 5th and 8th grade boys and girls
Girls 5th & 6th grade – Wednesday 3/15 (5:30 to 6:30pm at GHS Stadium)
Boys 5th & 6th grade -Wednesday 3/15 (5:30 to 6:30pm at GHS #4)
Girls 7th & 8th grade – Thursday 3/16 (5:30 to 6:30 at GHS Stadium)
Boys 7th & 8th grade – Thursday 3/16 (5:30 to 6:30pm at GHS #4)
March 18 – Travel teams will practice – time and locations will be e-mailed to teams
March 27 – Start of weekday team practices (subject to change)
March 27 – Goalie Clinics begin
April 2 – Intro to Travel Evaluations (for registered players in 3rd and 4th grade) – immediately after House League
May 22 – Final Goalie Clinic
May 29 – Old Greenwich Memorial Day Parade – details TBD
June 3 or June 4 – Season Ending CONNY Tournaments (subject to change)
All travel team seasons end at the conclusion of their CONNY tournament on June 3 or June 4
House League Key Dates
March 3 – PCA Night for Coaches (6:00 at Eastern Middle School) – all parents are invited to attend
March 4 – Jersey Day: 9:00 – 11:00am (Old Greenwich School)
March 17 – First Friday Night Clinic (all 2-4th grade; K&1 won’t have their first FNC until Mar 31)
March 19 – First Sunday House League (all K-4th grade players)
March 31 – First Friday Night Clinic for K&1
April 2 – Intro to Travel Evaluations (for registered players in 3rd and 4th grade) – immediately after House League
May 19 – Last Friday Night Clinic
May 21 – Last Sunday House League
May 29 – Old Greenwich Memorial Day Parade – details TBD
House League Logistics 2023 — GREENWICH YOUTH LACROSSE
Week #10 Schedule – our final week of House League
GIRLS
Friday May 19 (Clinic)
Sunday May 21 – Our final session for 2023
All grades at GHS #6
1:00 to 2:00 – Grades K & 1
2:00 to 3:00 – Grade 2
3:00 to 4:00 – Grades 3 & 4
BOYS
Friday May 19 (Clinic)
6:00 to 7:00pm
Fields:
Grades K-2 will be at GHS #4
Grades 3-4 will be at Cos Cob Park
Sunday May 21 – Our final session for 2023
All grades at GHS #7
1:00 to 2:00 – Grades K & 1
2:00 to 3:00 – Grade 2
3:00 to 4:00 – Grades 3 & 4
GYL Sixes
Please click here to learn more about GYL Sixes – this is how the boys program scrimmages each Sunday.
PRE-SEASON PARENTS COMMUNICATIONS
House League Parents Welcome 2023 – February 23, 2023
Updated Information On House League – March 9, 2023
Welcome back for another exciting season
Here are the days/times for the 2023 season:
Friday Night Clinics
Girls K-4th grades: 6:00 to 7:00pm (typically GHS)
Boys K-2nd grades: 6:00 to 7:00pm (typically GHS)
Boys 3rd & 4th grades: 6:00 to 7:00pm (typically GHS)
Note: K&1 players will have their first Friday Night Clinic on 3/31
Sunday times will vary based on grade
Girls K & 1st grades: 1:00 to 2:00pm (typically GHS)
Girls 2nd grade: 2:00 to 3:00pm (typically GHS)
Girls 3rd & 4th grades: 3:00 to 4:00 pm (typically GHS)
Boys K & 1st grades: 1:00 to 2:00pm (typically GHS)
Boys 2nd Grade: 2:00 to 3:00 (typically GHS)
Boys 3rd & 4th Grades: 3:00 to 4:00 pm (typically GHS)
Note: we do Clinics for the first two weeks and games will start in week #3
Please check Key Dates for the latest information
Jersey Day: March 4th, 9:00 to 11:00 (location Old Greenwich School)
First Friday Night Clinic: March 17, 6:15 to 7:15 (location GHS) [Note: K&1 players will have their first Friday Night Clinic on 3/31]
Last Friday Night Clinic: May 19
First Sunday House League: March 19 (location GHS)
Last Sunday House League: May 21
Any question please reach out to Sarah O’Connor (girls) or Craig Wingrove (boys)
general Notes
Every player has two sessions per week: Friday Night Clinic & Sunday House League (games) – all players and coaches are expected to attend both sessions
Mandatory equipment must be worn at all times
Players are randomly placed on teams of about 10 players per team; there are no evaluations for House League
The first two weeks of House League will be clinics; games will begin the third week of House League
Fields are subject to change weekly due to constraints at Greenwich High School
We will have a clinic on Good Friday but there is no GYL activities on Easter Sunday
FRIDAY NIGHT CLINICS for GIRLS AND BOYS
Skills clinics provide excellent specific skills as well as a fun social environment
Coaches participate in creative drills
Important component of skill building for all players
6:00 to 7:00 at Greenwich High School (girls are typically on GHS #3; boys are on GHS #6 & GHS #7)
GIRLS HOUSE LEAGUE – Sunday AFTERNOONS
K & 1st Grade: 1:00 to 2:00 typically at GHS #6
2nd Grade: 2:00 to 3:00 typically at GHS #6
3rd Grade: 3:00 to 4:00 typically at GHS #6
4th Grade: 3:00 to 4:00 typically at GHS #6
Note: Times subject to change due to field availability
BOYS HOUSE LEAGUE – Sunday AFTERNOONS
K & 1st Grade: 1:00 to 2:00 typically at GHS #7
2nd Grade: 2:00 to 3:00 typically at GHS #7
3rd Grade: 3:00 to 4:00 typically at GHS #7
4th Grade: 3:00 to 4:00 typically at GHS #7
Note: Times subject to change due to field availability
All about the youngest employee of the US presidential administration
Last week, Donald Trump appointed an interim director of communications. This position was taken by 28-year-old Hope Hicks, the youngest and most mysterious employee of the presidential administration. Gazeta.Ru talks about how brand PR director Ivanka Trump became an adviser to the president.
Donald Trump has a new director of communications – for the time being, however, temporary: 28-year-old Hope Hicks is the youngest employee to have ever held this position since 1969 years, that is, since Richard Nixon introduced it. Previously, Hope Hicks was an adviser to Trump – and also the youngest: until August 16, she served as the White House director of strategic communications.
However, the age of the young influential politician is not the only thing that excited the public.
Hope Hicks made a short but spectacular journey from model to Trump adviser. There are many models in the environment of the President of the United States and without her, but Hope Hicks is neither his wife nor daughter, and the fact that she is a former model is rather a spectacular detail of her biography than an important line in her resume for professional growth.
Hope Hicks comes from a line of PR people—even though she had no political experience before starting to work directly for Trump, her parents know what it’s like to promote politicians. Her father, Paul Hicks, was the CEO of the international public relations agency Ogilvy and now heads the marketing agency Glover Park Group, but in the 80s he was an assistant to Stuart B. McKinney, a representative of the Republican Party from Connecticut.
In 1982, he married Kay Cavender, the future mother of Hope Hicks, who was also in public relations but worked for Democrat Ed Jones of the Democratic Party from Tennessee.
Hope Hicks, as we can see, followed in her father’s footsteps – she became a Republican.
Moreover, her father served as an elector in Greenwich from 1987 to 1991 – it is unlikely that Hope Hicks, with such a background, was very far from politics.
Hope Hicks, born in 1988 in Greenwich, Connecticut, became a model in her teens. several books. She starred until 2005, and in 2006 she graduated from high school, entered the Southern Methodist University in Dallas, where she studied English and was a member of the local lacrosse team (this is such a team game with sticks and a rubber ball), and after graduating from In 2010, just like her parents, she took up PR. True, not political – she went to work at the marketing agency Zeno Group in New York.
Omg I just heard that hope hicks the new communications director is the girl from the cover of the it girl. Middle school me is so confused pic.twitter.com/WR7OpcuC36
— Asha Xamdi (@ashaxamdi) Aug 17, 2017
Hope Hicks came to the Trumps’ radar in 2012 when she started working for public relations company Hiltzik Strategies — among her clients was the brand of the daughter of the future president Ivanka Trump. Already in 2014, her career took off, and the 25-year-old woman became the director of communications for the Trump Organization, taking on, among other things, the responsibility of promoting the fashion line of the Ivanka brand.
In April 2015, a photo of Hope Hicks in a sheath dress appeared on the brand’s blog : “In this outfit, I can jump on a bus to Washington and hold a press conference about the opening of a new hotel and return to New York for an evening cocktail with a boyfriend without the need to change.”
When she started working for the Trump Organization, she met Donald Trump and quickly “gained his trust,” as Ivanka Trump put it in The New York Times in 2016. The 45th President of the United States himself told the same newspaper last year literally the following: “I was lucky with her. She gives correct grades. She often gives advice and does it unobtrusively, so it doesn’t always even look like advice. But it’s served very nicely.” Donald Trump was lucky when, in 2015, he invited Hope Hicks to become the press secretary of his presidential campaign.
In 2016, she took on the position of the White House Communications Director, which did not exist before.
Now, after a string of layoffs of other communications directors – and her predecessors Sean Spicer and Anthony Scaramucci did not last very long – she will take over their duties temporarily. However, no one excludes that the temporary will become permanent.
Trump’s unobtrusiveness is a trademark of Hope Hicks. She always preferred to remain in the shadows.
In 2015, The Washington Post published a long story about Hicks, not forgetting to mention that the only young woman on Trump’s team, who enjoys his full confidence, refused to tell the newspaper about her role in the election campaign. In 2016, she did not give an interview to GQ magazine, however, organizing a conversation with Trump himself for the magazine and allowing the future president to talk about her in her presence.
At the same time, Trump’s modest employee turns out to be one of the highest paid: as The Politico reported, citing a White House press release on July 1, 2017, Hope Hicks’ salary is $179700, which is the same as Steve Bannon, Kellyanne Conway, Dina Powell and other senior Trump administration officials.
From America’s Best Lacrosse Player to an Exhibition 10 Contract with the Golden State Warriors in the NBA » AllLacrosse.
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Patrick Spencer recently signed a so-called Exhibition 10 contract with the Golden State Warriors in the NBA. The contract is essentially a non-guaranteed minimum wage deal that leaves teams more flexibility in filling the roster spots.
Spencer has gone from America’s top collegiate lacrosse player to an NBA show nominee. He may not reach the height of the legendary NFL star Jim Brown and Syracuse University lacrosse, after all, few players have won in two sports. It’s quite difficult, but Spencer chose one of the most unique routes.
Patrick Spencer grew up in Rhode Island. He attended Our Lady of Mercy and played youth lacrosse in East Greenwich and North Kingstown.
Pictured is Spencer wearing number 23 while playing for West Greenwich.
“He loved all sports, but especially basketball and lacrosse, and attended as many games as he could. He was here from 4th to 6th grade, then his family moved back to Maryland,” said one of his Rhode Island youth coaches, Herb DeSimone. “Great guy, always smiling, very humble. He was very talented and always held either a stick or a basketball in his hands.”
After the Spencer family moved from Rhode Island to Maryland, Pat attended the Latin Boys School in Maryland, one of the best lacrosse schools in America.
While in college, Spencer became a megastar. At Loyola University, he was simply the best and brightest NCAA lacrosse player in 2019.
Patrick Spencer was then drafted first overall by the newly formed Premier Lacrosse League “Archers” LC, making him the first player ever drafted in the PLL. But Spencer had one year left of his studies, and he decided to go to Northwestern University to play basketball.
He left Loyola as the most decorated student-athlete in school history…In 2019In 2010, he won the Tewaaraton Award, the winner of the Lieutenant Raymond Enners Award for the best US player of the year (USILA). In the same year, he received the Jack Tenbull Award as the best striker in the country.