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The ACAC Indoor Lacrosse League is off to a great start, with nearly 100 middle school and high school players playing weekly at ACAC’s Indoor Adventure Central facility. This indoor experience is designed to improve stick work, foot work, game knowledge, and pre-season conditioning. The quality of play is very good and the players have proved to be very enthusiastic about playing indoor lacrosse.

On Sundays there are four JV-level (9th and 10th grade) teams competing at 12:00 noon and 12:50. Later, at 3:00 and 3:50, 11th and 12th grade players take the court with 4 teams in a Varsity-level league.

In addition to the high school leagues, ACAC offers Indoor Lacrosse to 5th and 6th grade players on Monday evenings and 7th and 8th graders on Tuesday evenings.

All of the Leagues are still open for enrollment, the first session ends in 5 weeks. Sign ups for the 2nd session is ongoing. The 2nd session starts the week of November 9 and will finish before Christmas. Session 3 will take place in January / February.

For more information, contact Al Sadtler, ACAC’s Director of Youth Sports, at als@acac.com or at 434-978-PLAY.

The Charlottesville adult men’s club team will travel to its first tournament during the weekend of October 4th. The “Herd” will take part in the annual Laxtoberfest at Anne Arundel Community College.

If you are interested in playing in this tournament, or playing on the spring team please contact Jim Loffredo at laxjack3@yahoo.com.

The Herd will also take part in a scrimmage to warm up for the tournament against the UVA club team on Sunday Sept. 28th at 2:00pm at the Carrs Hill Field. Following the scrimmage, teams will gather at McGrady’s Restuarant after the game.

The Herd is being sponsored by Panorama Pay Dirt and Compost and by McGrady’s Restaurant.

This group will also be hosting open field times for practice and scrimmaging. Adults can come and play at these times without having to play in the spring league or tournaments.

For information on sponsoring The Herd, contact Jim Loffredo atlaxjack3@yahoo.com.

On October 4-5, 2008, there will be an educational symposium at Sweet Briar College, near Lynchburg, VA. The event will bring together men’s and women’s coaches and officials for a day of interactive learning and communication.

The symposium is designed to:

• Increase collaboration between coaches and officials
• Develop consistency in understanding of rules
• Foster relationships between coaches, both at the high school level and collegiate level, as well as between the two levels

Saturday, Oct. 4 will include classroom instruction and discussion, and Sunday, Oct. 5 will consist of a play day and training session for new and returning women’s officials.

The cost of the symposium is $35 for members of USLacrosse; $45 for non-members. Interested individuals should contact Chip Rogers at chipr@virginia.edu.