The Knights Lacrosse Team celebrated more than a home game against Round Rock foe, Stony Point High School Friday night.  The man who led them through the 2006 season and was subsequently deployed to Iraq in command of a cavalry troop was welcomed home.  Despite wounds from a grenade blast and fragments, Captain John Gilliam, U.S. Army, looked right at home among his players and their families and promised to return to the Harker Heights program as soon as he can lead his players in wind sprints. A soldier who leads by example and holds the Purple Heart Medal,  John Gilliam has played an integral role in bringing families in the Fort Hood community to the game of lacrosse and in teaching his players lessons that apply both on an off the playing field.

To learn more about this fighting leader’s return, click on KCEN-TV’s coverage of the event at http://www.kcentv.com/news/c-article.php?cid=1&nid=12490

http://www.kdhnews.com/news/story.aspx?mode=id&id=14956

After enjoying a great inaugural camp the Spartan Lacrosse Camp invites all interested players to the Second Annual Spartan Lacrosse Camp. The camp is back and strives to be the best around. Camp Directors are also excited to announce the addition of a girls’ camp that will take place during the same period as the boys’. The camps are open to all boys and girls from grade 5 through 12. Please check out the attachment or the Spartan Lacrosse Camp site for more details:
http://www.sstx.org/camps/athletics/lacrosse.html:
If you have any questions please feel free to contact Camp Directors Christopher Figueroa
& Domenic Alfieri.
Christopher Figueroa
(512) 791-1245
cfigueroa@sstx.org:
Domenic Alfieri
(512) 663-5031
Domenic2710@yahoo.com:
       

Division III Seeks Harmony Between Field and Classroom
By BILL PENNINGTON
The N.C.A.A.’s Division III, a group of mostly small colleges that prohibit athletic scholarships, has long been viewed as a model of the amateur ideal. But rampant growth has swelled the membership to 420, making it by far the National Collegiate Athletic Association’s biggest division, with enrollments ranging from 400 to 40,000.

The diversity has bred discord, and now the alliance is preparing to split in two, a recognition of how fractured the membership is over issues like money, national championships and the appropriate mission of athletics in higher education.

The dispute would be more suited to the major college sports landscape, except that Division III is home to many of the nation’s top small colleges, and that brings an even bigger stake to the debate: the impact a split could have on academic rankings used by prospective students and their parents. (more…)

Two NCAA lacrosse contests are planned for Dallas in the upcoming weeks.

On March 14, 2007 Springfield will play Geneseo in a Division III contest to be held at Episcopal School of Dallas, at 7:00pm

On March 17, 2007 Navy will play Holy Cross in a Division I contest to be held at SMU at 12:00pm. LaxWorld & Brine will host a free clinic for kids before the game with Mikey Powell and A.T. Bailey