Hi, this is Fred Wallace with ” Off the Wire “.
Team Ontario Lacrosse announced the appointment of Lyndsay Brooks to the Management Team.
Brooks who has been involved with both the Lady NorthStar program and with Team Ontario for years as the Head Coach of the U17 Women’s Field Team, will be joining the Management Team as the new Director of Scouting & Player Personnel for the Women’s Field Program.
The position is newly created but many of the fundamental building blocks are already in place or swirling in the mind of Lyndsay Brooks.
Going forward, among her many big ideas is the creation of a data base for Team Ontario.
A data base will allow the program to track Team Ontario members and their future team members; the concept being to know exactly where every girl in the field program is at any given time in the stream.
Girls and Women’s Field Lacrosse is on the rise.
At the highest level, the International Olympic Committee took the first steps to allow lacrosse to potentially return to the Games 2 years ago by awarding it provisional recognition.
In Ontario, Brooks now assumes the duty of supervising and monitoring international tournaments beyond the traditional Canadian Championship events- tournaments that will allow Ontario players to gauge their skill level, see the opportunities to advance and develop those abilities against elite international competition
And at the grassroots level, a quick drive by Victoria Park in Owen Sound during the warmer months illustrates the sport is growing in our region year by year with introductory programs and successful travel teams.
I’m Fred Wallace