Monday, February 22, 2010

Winter Break

Here at EC we have the unique opportunity to not only have a spring break, but a winter break as well. This break ishappening this week and being on the lacrosse team I had expected to be here all week practicing and hopefully playing games. We ended up being able to have the opportunity to go home, and after hearing this I got extatic; my goalie, who lives a few towns over from me, and I would leave from our scrimmage at Kings College and head home from there. Having this supprise come about was awesome and being able to see my family really excited me.

The day before the scrimmages, however, fate called and the transmission on my goalies car went. It really sucked the wind out of me and was a real bummer. Being an athlete we do get a bit of a perk if we are here on campus. The athletes that have to stay on campus get meal cards that cover the meals that we have while we are here, and that is really nice considering my meal account balance is much lower than it is supposed to be.

Our scrimmages went okay, although, like any team early in the season, we have much work to do. It was very exciting being able to play in my first college lacrosse game. College athletics are a whole different ball game than high school and youth athletics, and being here at EC I am getting the opportunity to experience it. It is also the benefit of going to a small school and knowing that you don't get enveloped in the society of a 40,000 students school.

Wednesday, February 3, 2010

EC Mens Lax

This week marks the second week of the Elmira College Mens lacrosse season. Coming in as a freshman I did not really know what to expect as far as playing a college sport is concerned, but so far it has been a lot better than expected. We started back in the fall with fall ball practices, an alumni game, a purple and gold inner squad schrimmage game, and a game against SUNY Cobleskill and Broome Community College. These all went really well for us. We shut out SUNY Cobleskill and defeated BCC very nicely. Now its the real deal and we are working hard.

Playing on a college team is much different than playing for a high school team, much more fun and exciting. The intensity level on my high school team was very minimal and no one was really excited once the season time came around, no one really enjoyed going to practice and when everyone was having fun when the spring time came around after school, many of the guys on the team did not want to be there. College is much different, and I like that a lot.

Every practice I feel as though there is a solid intensity level and that every one of the guys on the team is there, ready to play, and excited about it. Everyone works hard and there are no excuses. "New year, new team" is the motto that has enveloped the 2010 EC mens lacrosse team, and we're ready to proove something.

I feel blessed with the opportunity to continue to play lacrosse at the next level, and opportunity that I feel i would not have had if I had gone to another school. One of the pluses about going to a small school like EC is that I am able to play on a varsity team even though I was not recruited, and it gives me the chance to stay in shape, and open myself to new opportunities and new people.