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Health & Fitness

Coach's Corner: RBR Boy Lax Game Day

It's Game Day!

Waking up hearing birds outside my window, I'm excited.  I can see the sun is starting to rise as I open my eyes.  I don't need coffee this morning...it's game day.  I'm not playing anymore.  I don't live vicariously through others.  I coach.  

Lacrosse is the one true American sport.  It was created by the Native Americans- known as Baggataway or little brother of war.  It was a way of training their young warriors to become men.  That's what we as coaches try to do with the boys- guide them and prepare them for life both on and off the field.

It's been a tough season with some serious ups and downs this spring.  Injuries on both sides of the ball.  We've lost to teams we should have beat soundly.  We beat Holmdel for the first time in the history of the program.  Then we lost in the first round of the Shore Conference Tournament to a team that we should have beaten without much effort.  

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I ask those of you out there who have coached or who need to motivate in your daily lives- how?  I can teach fundamentals, catching and throwing, tactics of the game, the 2-3-1 offense- but how can you teach heart and hustle?  I think it is something inherent in all of us.  It's in there.  How do we bring it out?  

Today the Red Bank boys Lacrosse Team will take on Toms River East at home at 4pm.  This team is big and hit hard.  It will take one thing to win this game and one thing will be the difference between victory and defeat.  Heart.  

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Come out and support the Bucs.  

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