The Men's Lacrosse team is a highly competitive team, whose competition includes several larger schools.
A member of the DII Pioneer Collegiate Lacrosse League (PCLL), the team's schedule consists of games against Bridgewater State, WPI, Coast Guard, Briarcliff (NY), Maine, Framingham, and DI PCLL teams, URI, BU, and UNH.
The team plays all of their home games on the turf at WB Mason Stadium, one of the finest athletic facilities in the Northeast.
In May 2009, Hill Lacrosse won the DII Pioneer Collegiate Lacrosse league championship and was subsequently invited to the national championships in Denver, CO.
Larkin interviewed by InsideLacrosse.com
Head Coach Ryan Larkin was recently interviewed by lacrosse mega site InsideLacrosse.com. To view the entire arcticle click on the following link: Larkin interview
Stonehill Men's Lacrosse hosts Youth Clinic
On Sunday, March 14th, 2010 Stonehill held their first official youth clinic, run by the Stonehill Lacrosse coaches, players and alumn, to help raise money for the team. Advertising in the surrounding lacrosse communities around Stonehill, the team ended up with 76 youth lacrosse players in attendance. The 9-14 year old, future lax stars came from a variety of different towns including: Dover, Sherborn, Mansfield, Raynham, and Taunton.
The young athletes were broken into five groups of 15 and had each group go through five stations. The stations included basic lacrosse skill building techniques such as: shooting, cradling, passing, footwork, stick checks, scooping and protecting their stick. Each station ran about 20 minutes and at the end of the 5 stations the kids split up into position specific groups to work on things like dodging for midfielders or body positioning for goalies.
For the last hour the kids and parents got a huge surprise when a Boston Blazers (http://www.blazerslacrosse.com/) representative arrived with their star player Dan Dawson. Dan was voted National Lacrosse League MVP last year and also plays for the Toronto Nationals in the professional outdoor league known as the MLL. He was also selected to the Canadian National team, with whom he will compete in the upcoming Lacrosse World Championships. Dan ran a skills competition with all of the kids based on age groups. Each age group contest winner received a 4 pack of tickets to an upcoming Blazers home game as well as some Blazers gear. The contests included an agility drill, a shooting accuracy contest, and a fastest shot contest using a radar gun.
The clinic was a huge success and raised over $2000 for the men's lacrosse team, and hopefully a future Dan Dawson raised his game to the next level. We would like to thank all of the instructors and the Boston Blazers for their help in making the clinic a great success.
Click here to see more photos of the March clinic.