Lee's Corner Archives - Florida Lacrosse News

Aug312020 by Lee RoggenburgNo Comments

FLN’s New Policy Towards Clubs & Club Events

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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...

Aug222020 by Lee RoggenburgNo Comments

Palm Beach Central Alum Samuel Peede Needs Our Help

Featured Posts, Florida Lacrosse News, High School, Lee's Corner, Southeast Boys

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 ...

Jul302020 by Lee RoggenburgNo Comments

Choosing Compassion Over Hatred: How Gabe Clark Overcame Racial Adversity

Across The LAX World, Celebrating The Game, Featured Posts, Florida Lacrosse News, Lee's Corner, Youth/Club

Lee’s Note: Gabe Clark is a very impressive young man. Never mind the fact that he is a top-notch player who is looking at a possible D1 lacrosse future or that he is looking at several terrific academic institutions that are D3. Or that he is a leader among his peers. None of that prepares you for the unexpected life event that propels you to prominence; life does not always run on your chosen timetable. Sometimes life choses you, not the other way around. I’m confident Gabe understands that, as you will see below. For the few reading this and wondering about what this is about, there was a youth club lacrosse event in Orlando last weekend and during the semifinals of one of the two high school brackets an incident occurred where racial slurs were used by a few members ...

Jul282020 by Lee RoggenburgNo Comments

An Update On The Last 24 Hours

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Well, it's been a pretty intense day. And as the situation plays out I want to bring the readers up to date as well as make sure a few things are addressed right away. The fact gathering is continuing and Sweetlax Florida has put out a tweet this afternoon: https://twitter.com/Sweetlax_Fla/status/1288200445937299458 This is an acknowledgement and those words were likely carefully chosen to indicate that they are taking full responsibility for what is found out and the fact that a club team is named in this makes it clear where the investigation is pointing to. And that leads me into an important point that needs emphasizing, because I didn't mention it in my last post: There is no reason whatsoever to attach any blame on the event itself, or the organizers o...

Jul272020 by Lee RoggenburgNo Comments

My Turn to Apologize

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Late yesterday, after the Orlando Faceoff event ended I was informed that racial slurs were sent at 3 players from another team and that one of the families would reach out to me to give me details. I have not heard from that family yet as I write this. The story has been sent through social media to Kyle Harrison, who published the following on his Twitter: I clicked on the tweet and started to read the comments and came across a comment by Jeff Katz, which I assumed was the details of what happened. This is what I read: One of my U11 players was called the N-word. He told me. I called a TO and told the opposing coach. He talked to his player. The player walked over & apologized. Then he was sent home from the tourney. He was the their best...

Jul182020 by Lee RoggenburgNo Comments

Saxton Dunlap’s Next Step Is One That Needs A Wide Net To Be Cast

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The lacrosse goal is 6 by 6. The net we need as a lacrosse community is a good deal wider. But the good news is we need to only score one goal in it. And that goal only needs one assist. But it also needs a lot of passes to set it up. Saxton Dunlap was diagnosed with T-cell lymphoma in May, 2020. He needs to find a matching donor so he can have a stem cell or bone marrow transplant. The best chance of finding a match is with someone who shares the same genetic heritage. Because Saxton is African American/White, his best chance of a match is with someone who is also multi-racial. That's the goal. Let's get to work. Spread the news to all we know. And put this one in the win column. Here's the link: SAXTON'S ARMY WHAT YOU CAN DO J...

Jul122020 by Lee RoggenburgNo Comments

From The Vault: My First FLN Article – March 7th, 2013

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As we gear up for the big event in Vero this week, I went back into our database and based on my data search this looks like it is the first article I wrote for FLN and it was a game coverage of Columbus playing Spanish River, on March 7th, 2013. Yep, over 7 years ago now. Needless to say, my writing matured a bit since then. I also saw that there was a lot of my early stuff that focused on MLL exploring the market at FAU to gauge interest in moving a franchise into the stadium, which we were blessed to have for 5 years. The Hamilton-Rochester game (that was a MUCH better article) and an interview with then MLL Commissioner David Gross were two highlights of that early coverage, as well as my first big kerfluffle that Tom West and I now chuckle at, but was intense for abo...