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2008 Garden State Lacrosse Challenge

Sponsored by The New Jersey Lacrosse Foundation, a Chapter of US Lacrosse

Our Vision To be recognized in the lacrosse community as an annual, must-attend event for collegiate lacrosse coaches, to discover the elite lacrosse talent that the state of New Jersey has to offer.

Our Mission To provide the top New Jersey high school lacrosse players,  a high-caliber all-star experience, while at the same time providing an outlet for collegiate coaches to observe, evaluate, and eventually recruit these student athletes for their respective lacrosse programs.

Our Goal To annually conduct a highly competitive, round robin lacrosse showcase, that offers a rewarding experience for all participants and collegiate coaches, providing a best-in-class information resource that is considered an invaluable tool for collegiate lacrosse player recruiting.

2008 Objectives 

• Provide the opportunity for all individuals who choose to participate to have a positive experience regardless of their selection to one of the area teams.
• Field area teams every year with the highest level of high school lacrosse talent available in the state of New Jersey.
• Offer all participants who try out the opportunity to present their personal, academic, and athletic credentials to all the collegiate coaches who attend the event or who request the information.
• Provide on-line registration to all participants, players, and collegiate coaches, via the New Jersey Lacrosse Foundation’s website: www.njlacrosse.org and capture player profile information,  necessary to accurately represent their individual credentials.
• Provide all attending collegiate coaches, with a binder and CD complete with player profile information on every individual who tried out for the Garden State Lacrosse Challenge games. For those collegiate coaches who cannot attend the event, a CD at a cost of $25.00 can be shipped to them, outlining player profile information. To ensure that all collegiate coaches receive their player profile information package, the NJ Lacrosee Foundation recommends that all interested coaches register for this event.

Participant Requirements The Garden State Lacrosse Challenge Games are open to boys entering grades 10-12 as of September 2008. Anyone wishing to tyrout for the games MUST  be a member of US Lacrosse.  If you are not a member of US Lacrosee, please click here to obtain membership information or call US Lacrosse directly ay 410-235-6882 x102.  You must provide proof of membership at the time of registration, in order to tryout for the games. Any falsification of a US Lacrosse membership on any registration form will automatically disqualify a player from participating in the games.

Any players who meet the criteria above and wish to tryout, registration will be available the first week in May.All Garden State Challenge participants must sign the New Jersey Lacrosse Foundation

Participants will tryout for a regional team, based upon the participants HOMETOWN Region. Click here for the Regional Breakdown. Please note that if your town or school is not listed, you should tryout for the team in the region in which you live.

Garden State Games Format:

For any questions you may have regarding this year’s Garden State Challenge Games, please contact our chairperson Sean Dowling at (973) 359-3144 or dowlings@madisonpublicschools.org.
 

Regional Tryout and Practice Information

Athletes that are interested in participating in the Garden State games will sign up and pay a Non-refundable $40 tryout fee online.

All Athletes that tryout will receive a numbered reversible and have all of their athletic and academic information distributed to college coaches.

Click here to begin online player registration.

Region	Contact
Northeast - Bergen Catholic HS	Joe Haemmerle
Northwest - Chatham HS	Steve Manitta
Central East - Montclair HS (Fotunado Field)	Peter Von Hoffman
Central West - Watchung Hills HS	Andrew Apel
Shore - Jackson Memorial HS	Nick Caruso
Olympic - St. Augustine Prep	JC Valore

Try-out Dates and Times: (Monday-June 9th, Tuesday-June 10th and/or Thursday-June 12th)
Northeast	Ramapo (Previously BC)	June 9th - 4 pm
Northwest	Chatham (Cougar Field)	June 9th - 4 pm
Central East	Montclair (Fortunado Field)	June 9th & 10th (If necessary) 3:30-5:30pm
Central West	Watchung Hills	June 9th & 10th (If necessary) 6-8 pm
Shore	Jackson Memorial HS	June 9th & 10th (If necessary) 4:30 pm
Olympic	St. Augustine Prep	June 9th & 10th (If necessary) 4:30 PM
Seeding Games	June 18 & 19, 4:30 pm at Mountain Park, Basking Ridge (15 Mountain Ave. cross st. with Martinsville Rd. 07920)
5th Place game	June 20 (4:00pm) at Bridgewater HS
3rd Place Game	June 20 (5:30pm) at Bridgewater HS
Final	June 20 (7:00pm) at Bridgewater HS

Click here to begin online player registration.

2008 Garden State Lacrosse Challenge regional breakdowns.

Regional Breakdowns:
(please note: if your county is not listed below, you should register and tryout for the regional team closest to the county in which you live. If you have any questions, feel free to e-mail the regional coaches listed )

Northeast: Coach (Joe Haemmerle)  Bergen, Hudson and Passaic. 

Northwest: Coach (Steve Manitta) Morris, Sussex and Warren.

Central East: Coach (Peter Von Hoffman) Essex, Middlesex and Union.

Central West: Coach (Andrew Apel)  Hunterdon, Mercer and Somerset.

Shore: Coach (Nick Caruso) Ocean and Monmouth Counties.

Olympic: Coach (JC Valore)  Olympic Conference Schools.

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