Saturday, August 13, 2016

How Is The Lacrosse Community Doing?

Members of the Hampton Unversity Lacrosse Team 
I have a new book coming out in January entitled Southern Food and Civil Rights (my day job is as a professor of history and foodways at Babson College) The book delves into movements for progressive change focusing on the 1920s through the 1960s and an afterword on Occupy Wall Street which occurred in 2011. I completed the book while the riot in Baltimore and the Black Lives Matter movement developed around the country. I also completed the book while Hampton University (an historical black college/university) began its first season fielding a NCAA Men's lacrosse team. In the following podcast I talk about the presence of African Americans in lacrosse since I played at Syracuse in the 1980s. [Listen Now 5min and 46sec] https://soundcloud.com/thestudytable/african-americans-in-lacrosse

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Monday, August 1, 2016

The Most Important Parts of The Game

Former NFL Kicker Matt Stoffer, Frank kelley, Fred Opie, Hank Janzyck at the annual FCA coaches breakfast held at US Lacrosse's Coaches Convention
About 1987 I participated in the first annual FCA Lacrosse Camp at Gettysburg College; we had about 8 players. At the camp I began a relationship with Gettysburg Men’s Lacrosse Coach Hank Janzyck (Coach J) and the late Peter Kohn. With Frank taking the lead and providing the vision, FCA lacrosse has mushroomed over the years into a dynamic ministry that is impacting the lacrosse world with huddles (bible studies), camps, teams in tournaments, retreats for college players, and coaches’ breakfasts at national conventions. All of this began when I met Frank at the Glastonbury Tournament in Connecticut. It was the start of a meaningful relationship with Frank Kelly that has lasted more than thirty years. My two children attend the FCA lacrosse camp at Gettysburg. The camp had more than 400 players in attendance.



Helping Boys Develop Friendships: [Listen 17 min: 51 sec] http://www.npr.org/2011/08/24/139912898/moms-helping-boys-form-deep-friendships