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Good morning. Here’s the latest from around the lacrosse world:

1. The Premier Lacrosse League has still not announced its schedule, nor the television matchups, but did drop the opponents for its championship series. The defending champs Whipsnakes LC appear to the have the toughest road. Each team will play four group games for seeding and the two teams the Whips won’t play are last year’s last place team, Chrome LC, and the expansion Waterdogs LC.

The league also announced waiver wire moves, a list highlighted by 11 players from Chrome LC either on the “excused inactive list” or waived to the player pool. The Chrome departures include 2018 U.S. team gold medalists Matt Danowski and Joel White. Some other big names on the list included Kevin Rice (Archers, player pool) and Matt Landis (Redwoods, military reserve list).

Among the notable players finding new homes so far are Jake Withers (Waterdogs) and Jeremy Thompson (Atlas).

2. The waiting game for the PLL Championship Series has given the players ample time to train to be in top-shape for the event, and they’ve taken advantage. Nelson Rice looks at the way they’ve been training to compete.

3. Two-time gold medalist and Cincinnati head coach Gina (Oliver) Thomas is one of the coaches featured in an article on the responsibilities of coaches to engage their teams in discussions about race.

4. Mynk Richardson-Clerk kneeled during the national anthem her final two seasons at North Central College (Ill.). In an interview with Matt Hamilton, she explains why.

5. World Lacrosse will be launching its new website today.

6. The U.S. women’s national team players will be offering a series of one-hour virtual clinics beginning June 23. The cost is $21, in recognition of the 2021 World Lacrosse Women’s World Championship hosted by US Lacrosse next July.

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Recruiting is going to look a lot different this summer for college coaches. High Point men’s lacrosse coach Jon Torpey has some fun with it.

Kyle Harrison shares highlights from the Bronx Lacrosse organization.

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