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Burnsville the latest Lake Conference school to take up lacrosse
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The gang's all here.
That is, if by gang you mean the Lake Conference and by here you mean a lacrosse pitch.
With Burnsville's boys' and girls' lacrosse teams making the jump from club status to varsity this spring, each of the 11 conference schools now has players at the Minnesota State High School League level.
Lacrosse continues to grow, and Burnsville has noticed.
Last season was the first time Burnsville fielded club lacrosse teams.
Girls' coach Emily LeClair had never been involved with lacrosse until last season.
When asked to coach, "at first I was like, 'Are you kidding?'" she said. "But then I took some classes and after learning the sport, I realized it's like basketball, soccer and hockey."
Basketball?
"A lot of the offenses and defenses are man-to-man," explained LeClair, a basketball coach at heart. "There's a rule in the 8-meter arc that's a lot like 3 seconds in basketball, but it's for defense. There's screens, fouls, charges, blocks. It does relate a bit."
The girls' team went 4-5 last season before advancing to the Northcentral Schoolgirls Lacrosse Association state tournament.
The boys' team likewise played a junior varsity schedule last spring. Coach Jesse Schelitzche, who played high school lacrosse at Robbinsdale Cooper and for Minnesota-Duluth in college, said his team learned valuable lessons. "We're treating this as a varsity program, not a start-up program," he said.
BRIAN STENSAAS
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