Good morning. Here’s the latest from around the lacrosse world:
1. A pair of coaches with ties to the U.S. national team program made big moves on Wednesday.
Joe Amplo, an assistant coach for the 2018 U.S. men’s world championship team who will serve in the same capacity in 2022 is leaving the Marquette program he started to take over at Navy.
Thank you to everyone at Marquette for helping turn a vision into a reality. It’s amazing the impact a four letter word can have on so many people. It took a village to raise this program, and I was so privileged to be a part of it. #ihadthetimeofmylife pic.twitter.com/TS0L7l2WBs
— MUcoachAmplo (@MUcoachAmplo) June 6, 2019
Amy Bokker, an assistant coach on the 2013 and 2017 U.S. women’s world championship teams, is departing Stanford after 11 seasons to take over the Ohio State program.
So excited to begin a new era with @ohiostatewlax & compete in the @bigten! Thankful for @stanfordwlax & the awesome coaches I’ve been surrounded by... looking forward to the many new relationships to come. #BokkersareBuckeyes pic.twitter.com/AxxckQ4zmY
— Coach Amy Bokker (@AmyBokker) June 5, 2019
2. College Crosse is also reporting that Yale assistant coach Andrew Baxter will be named as Fairfield’s next men's head lacrosse coach.
3. The “Way Early” men’s Division I rankings looked at spots 11-15 yesterday, including three teams that missed out on the NCAA tournament — Cornell, Ohio State and Massachusetts — and two times with big-time graduation losses — Loyola and Towson.
4. Our look at community-based youth lacrosse programs around the country continues with a profile of CONNY, which serves youth in Connecticut and New York.