Kyle Harrison on the Training Table

Kyle Harrison right in his home Hopkins white jersey, Courtesy of JHU

Kyle Harrison displaying his grilling skills, Courtesy of Kyle Harrison 

This week on the podcast host Fred Opie interviews John Hopkins All-American lacrosse player Kyle Harrison.  He talks about what it takes to be a great player, becoming a father, the next US team tryouts, getting ready for the season, changing his eating habits as he gets older, and how much sleep he needs. The interview is part of the series training table which looks at players, fitness, and food. Listen to Hopkins lacrosse stories and at the end professor Opie’s tips for being a better student.

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Kyle Harrison Stories: http://lacrossememoir.blogspot.com/search?q=kyle

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SanKofa Lacrosse Team Makes Its Debut Part 2

Chazz Woodson (Brown University alum) and Kyle Harrison (Johns Hopkins University alum) are the co-founders of the SanKofa Lacrosse Team.  They share their vision for the concept of the team with members of the team, the English National Team, and members of the Brown University Men's and Women's lacrosse teams.  Fred Opie recorded the event on October 25, 2013 on the campus of Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island. 

Sankofa Lacrosse Team Member Interviews: [Watch Now] https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=sankofa+lacrosse+interviews&sm=1

Kyle Harrison Related Stories: http://lacrossememoir.blogspot.com/search?q=Kyle+Harrison

Be Careful What you Say to the People You Coach

Former Hopkins All American and U. S. National Team Player, Kyle Harrison

SU Lacrosse Alum Fred Opie

Coaching Series: http://lacrossememoir.blogspot.com/search?q=coaching

Inside Out Coaching: How Sports Can Transform Lives by Joe Ehrmann, Gregory Jordan and Paula Ehrmann: [Watch 4 min 7 sec] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i9qxV0pRaS0

Book: Inside Out Coaching: How Sports Can Transform Lives by Joe Ehrmann, Gregory Jordan and Paula Ehrmann http://books.simonandschuster.com/InSideOut-Coaching/Joe-Ehrmann/9781439182987

My Stories on Coaching: http://lacrossememoir.blogspot.com/search?q=coach

My Club and US Team Coaches: http://lacrossememoir.blogspot.com/search?q=%22Tom%22

Jim Brown

Syracuse Lacrosse All American and Hall of Famer Jim Brown

Most folks know about Jim Brown and Kyle Harrison. But there are a lot of African Americans who played the game and who served as my role models in my youth. There are those from my generation who have been forgotten that I played with and against back when there were so few of us playing the great game of lacrosse, the fastest game on two feet. I am sure I will leave some folks out of the discussion but that’s because of accidental omission and not a comment on their contribution to the game or ability. “Lacrosse has long had a reputation as a ‘white sport,’ writes Dartmouth Professor of History Bruce Nelson. “At the D1 level, lacrosse has been, overwhelmingly, a ‘white sport.’ In the forty years from 1957 to 1996, only five African-American players were named first team All-American in D1 lacrosse. The first was the legendary Jim Brown, at Syracuse, in 1957. After Brown, there were no black All-Americans for the next twenty-three years. Tomorrow’s post will be on “Big Jim” as his college teammate and my college coach Roy Simmons Jr. called him.

Jim Brown Lacrosse Stories: http://lacrossememoir.blogspot.com/search?q=Jim+Brown

Lacrosse Entrepreneurs

Paul Rabil capitalizing on lacrosse in a Maverick advertisement (image from  http://www.redbullusa.com/cs/Satellite/en_US/Profile/Paul-Rabil-021242925475786)

The top lacrosse superstar and entrepreneur these days  is Hopkins grad Paul Rabil. After earning All American honors all four years in college, Rabil successfully leveraged his size, speed, and blistering shot to earn indoor and outdoor professional playing contracts and more importantly several endorsement deals that allows him to get paid for his passion. Rabil like his Hopkins teammate before him, Kyle Harrison, has become the Ryan Seacrest of lacrosse establishing a strong brand with stellar performances in the professional ranks, and creating clinics, and camps. He has become the face of lacrosse on television with his California beach boy like persona. Like Seacrest, Rabil his engaged in entrepreneurial activities on many platforms and done it well. I am thrilled about guys like Paul who can follow their passion and get well compensated in the process. For the record my son has a post of Paul on his wall. For a lesson on entrepreneurial strategy check out the Oprah Segment on Ryan Seacrest below. He’s over the top, but most of us lax folks are so behind, we could learn from this guy’s play book. As the proverb goes, you can give a hungry man a fish or you can teach him to fish.

Ryan Seacrest: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GHAScLbJy4k&feature=player_embedded

Paul Rabil: http://www.paulrabil99.com/2012/

How to Improve Your Stick Skills: [Watch 4 min 2 sec] http://lacrossememoir.blogspot.com/2012/06/how-i-developed-my-lacrosse-stick.html