Lee Roggenburg, Author at Florida Lacrosse News

Sep112020 by Lee RoggenburgNo Comments

9/11 – Still Fresh In My Mind & The Rest of the Lacrosse World

Across The LAX World, Featured Posts, Florida Lacrosse News

No high school lacrosse player was alive when this happened. Watching video after the fact can't capture fully the mood we felt as a nation watching the day unfold. The sport you played produced some heroes that day as well as some heartache. None of your parents will ever forget this day, it is our generation's Pearl Harbor. Like so many of us I lost a close friend that day in the South Tower. Thankfully, my brother decided to go to the gym early that day in his New Jersey home and didn't head out to his office, where he would have had to exit the transit under the WTC. One friend did make it out of the Towers that day. 19 years ago. Luckily working from the house for the first Tuesday in many weeks. The routine back then was to get on a plane on Sunday ...

Aug312020 by Lee RoggenburgNo Comments

FLN’s New Policy Towards Clubs & Club Events

Featured Posts, Florida Lacrosse News, Lee's Corner, Recruiting, The Recruiting Process

FLN has prepared this memorandum of understanding for the Lacrosse Club Scene to clarify how FLN will cover and publicize events, tryouts and showcases. FLN seeks to be seen as both neutral in its’ actions and its’ perception throughout the lacrosse community, both for editorial and business reasons. We look to provide information to readers, participants and the community at large. We see FLN as spreading word of upcoming events but will not place ourselves in a position where we are showing a favored view of one club versus another, one showcase versus another, one national program versus another, etc. FLN has three missions; to celebrate and facilitate the growth of the sport in this state, to help community members who need the help of the community, and to help vendo...

Aug302020 by Lee RoggenburgNo Comments

HB Plant 2021 Wyatt Knust Commits to Cornell!

Boys Recruiting, Featured Posts, Florida Lacrosse News, Recruiting

Congratulations to Wyatt for his college commitment and good luck in the future . . . except for that one game each year as any Cornell or Syracuse commit knows by now! Name Wyatt Knust High School H.B. Plant Graduation Year 2021 College Choice Cornell Club Affiliations Sweetlax Florida/National Why did you choose this college? This was a long and tough process for me, but I couldn't be happier with where I ended up. My goal during the whole recruiting process was to find a school that I loved that combined great academics with great lacrosse and Cornell fit all of those categories. I talked to Coach Stevens on the phone almost every week for 2 months leading up to my commitment and it was great to be able to build a relationship with...

Aug292020 by Lee RoggenburgNo Comments

PBA Women: Chanel Nassir Selected for Prestigious Fulbright Award!

College/MCLA, Featured Posts, Florida Lacrosse News, PBA Women

Author's Note: For those who don't know this is a terrific award for a college student to earn. As a Hobart grad I've always looked forward each year to see if an HWS student made the list so to see a local lacrosse player earn her way onto this just shows that this sport continues to attract fine young men and women. My personal congratulations to you Chanel on this award. via PBA press release WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. – Former Palm Beach Atlantic women's lacrosse team captain Chanel Nassir was one of three recent PBA grads awarded a highly-competitive Fulbright award to teach English overseas. A Fulbright is a highly-selective, prestigious award for international study that aims to foster understanding between U.S. citizens and those of other countr...

Aug222020 by Lee RoggenburgNo Comments

Palm Beach Central Alum Samuel Peede Needs Our Help

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Fromer PBC lacrosse player Samuel Peede continues to struggle with Ewing Sarcoma Cancer and needs financial assistance to fight for his life. Please help out if you can! https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=5&v=KH2db6z_C4o&feature=emb_logo From his GoFundMe PAGE: We are not winning this battle for Sam, Chloe and Mason, and we urgently need financial assistance to give them access to an opportunity in Tampa that might offer the chance to save Sammy’s life. A recent PET Scan indicated that Sammy’s cancer has spread throughout various parts of his body, it is no longer limited to just his lungs. Are you able to help Sammy, Chloe and Mason beat Ewing's Sarcoma? Since our last update, Sam had a partial lung lobectomy, removing his ...

Aug142020 by Lee RoggenburgNo Comments

Freaky Friday Video! Rabil & Harrison Break Down Lacrosse Scenes in Movies!

Across The LAX World, Featured Posts, Florida Lacrosse News, New For Parents, Parent's Corner

Came across this today as it was posted a week ago on YouTube. I believe it is from GQ Sports, which has done a series of these for other sports, asking professional athletes to analyze the quality of the performance of actors and actresses playing a sport in a movie. I did watch the Hockey version a while back and laughed at Rob Lowe's Youngblood scenes and Goldberg's Knuckle shot for example (although I do give Rob credit for doing pretty well on skates and having him, Patrick Swayze and Keanu Reeves on the same junior Canadian team - Keanu is the goalie - was a nice historical fact). Anyhow, it leads with American Pie and goes from there, so enjoy it! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZHC1oUJ2MLg

Aug122020 by Lee RoggenburgNo Comments

Tampa Catholic 2021 Taylor Matthews Commits to Howard University!

Featured Posts, Florida Lacrosse News, Girls Recruiting, Recruiting

Congratulations to Taylor on her college choice and good luck in the future! Name Taylor Matthews High School Tampa Catholic High School Graduation Year 2021 College Choice Howard University Club Affiliations Intrepid Lacrosse Club Why did you choose this college? I chose Howard University because of the city's location, history, criminology program, and the family-like atmosphere with the Lacrosse teammates. I want to be a lawyer or in a government organization. And, Howard University is perfect, because the FBI, CIA, and other government agencies are right at your fingertips in DC as well as many top tier law schools including Howard University! I also chose Howard, because I love the vibrant city scenery of ...