Hi all,

Our third Overseas Player, James Baghai, arrived today from the USA. James is the next in a series of lads to play out here from St Michael's. Welcome James.

He was met at the airport by his new Warriors team mate, Alex Marotto from Quinnipiac College and Woodville's Jesse Whinnen, Shane Abbott, Charles Manning and Neil Parker. James will help coach our U18s in the morning, then play Div 1 for his first hit out in Australia. Come see him play at 12.45pm at Woodville Lacrosse Club, the State League are at home too straight afterwards.

Cheers

Charles Manning

Jesse Whinnen, Alex Marotto and James Baghai

Mitch Cooper

• Mitch hails from Rockville Centre, New York and is the son of Carla and Mitch Cooper ... born in Long Beach, NY ... has a younger sister, Brittany ... a business major at Quinnipiac University.
• Mitch arrives on Monday afternoon (24th) and will be staying with Matthew Ryan and family.

Alex Marotto

• Alex comes from South Windsor in Connecticut. His parents are MaryBeth and Mark Marotto and he has an older sister, Lindsay. He is also from Quinnipiac University where he plans to major in business.
• Alex arrives on Tuesday morning (25th) and will be staying with Neil Parker.

James Baghai

• James comes from Wellesley, Massachusetts and is just completing his senior year at St Michael's College in Vermont, home to other Warriors Mark Agostinelli, Mike Boerma, Greg Lazarus and Jeff Dowling. He is the son of Hassen Baghai and is majoring in business administration.
• James is due to arrive in the first few days of June and will be staying with Stefan Guerin and James Smith.

Thanks to Charles Manning for securing another batch of quality players to help strengthen our senior teams and coach our junior teams, and thanks to our host families for welcoming our guest players into their homes.

As you would know the Club is hosting a number of American lacrosse players who will be here both to bolster our league men’s and women’s teams but also to help coach our junior teams and to add some international flavour to our club atmosphere!

This week we introduce our female imports:

Alyssa Zinsser

• Alyssa is a native of Lebanon, Pennsylvania
• She plays lacrosse for Denison University in Ohio, the same college as last year's guest player Amanda Wilson
• Alyssa arrives on 18 June and will be staying with the Guerin family.

Britt Whisenant

• Britt hails from Houston in Texas
• She played for her high school in Houston before playing for the University of Mary Washington in Virginia
• Britt will arrive on 21 June and will be staying first with Cathy Brookes, then later with Merrilyn Matthews.

Three female players are about to be confirmed, and third male player, a defender, may be confirmed in the next week.

Alex is a 6'2" midfielder who played lacrosse and soccer all through high school. He will be arriving in Adelaide May 24 ready to join the Warriors team and get involved with coaching our junior boys.

He will have graduated from college with a major in business and is looking forward to explore all that Australia has to offer. To check out more about his playing stats and follow the teams results go to his web profile.

All committee positions will be declared vacant and up for nomination. If you would like to nominate anybody for any particular position, please advise me by e-mailing secretary@warriorslax.com or phoning me on 0435 573 533. The committee positions are:

Chairman
Secretary
Treasurer
Men's Teams Convenor
Women's Teams Convenor
Junior Teams Convenor
Social Convenor
... plus three other members

There will also be a vote for non-committee positions including the President, Patron and Vice Presidents

Gala Day highlights

Warriors senior teams slideshow 2009

And below are the links to the two slideshows used at the 2008 presentation night - one is of our volunteers, the other the season

Volunteers 2008

Season snaps 2008

Regards

Details for this year’s Woodville Lacrosse Presentation Dinner:

The Woodville Lacrosse Club will be hosting the first week of finals for men's games on Saturday 29 August, while the corresponding women's finals will be played at the SACA grounds. Stay tuned for more information.

Congratulations to the following Warriors who have been selected in the U15 Red Lightning representative team:

Morgan Inglis & Eva Manning (co-captains), Eleanor Bishop, Ruby Brock-Maddiford, Gemma Cochrane, Emily Johns, Hannah Mathwin and Janita Matthews. Olivia Parker has been selected as an alternate. The team will be coached by Peter Mathwin and Charles Manning, and Janice Manning is the team manager. Well done girls!!! It shows the strength of our junior girls' program to have 8 players in this team!

The U15 Eastern Reds boys' team are currently vying for selection, good luck to all of you trying out!

The Under 15 National tournaments for both boys and girls will be held in Melbourne in the forthcoming school holidays.

Click here to view a clip posted by the team on YouTube as the members of the Aussie Roos deal with their enforced quarantine and subsequent cabin fever.

Fortunately seven other members of the team who took a different flight from the main contingent have not been placed in quarantine and have managed to be able to compete. Latest news is they played a Hong Kong team, and despite playing seven on the field to their ten (plus subs) they defeated Hong Kong 10-8.

We feel for you Jesse and wish you and all the team the best and hope that the authorities see sense and let you guys out to play the remainder of the tournament.

The Panthers were ultimately defeated convincingly by fellow Victorian club Williamstown in the final, 6-18.

Jordy arrives in Adelaide, Sunday 31 May and steps straight off the plane to go to an Australian Rules Football game - Adelaide Crows vs Hawthorn Hawks (see http://www.afc.com.au).

B grade is commencing next weekend. It is a four team comp - Warriors, Seahawks, Bombers & combined Bears/Penguin/Devils.

We want you!!! Call me and let me know if you can play.

We have young 18s & a couple of 15s to work the lines, we just need to have fun. Will have enough players to cover when you cannot make it.

We start next Saturday. 1pm at Sturt. Be there by 12.30. Can you let me know what your intentions are?

Well done, you have done us proud and are a big part of the building blocks of the Woodville Warriors Womens Program.

Regards

Washington, D.C. - The Georgetown University women's lacrosse squad will play eighth-seeded Princeton on Sunday afternoon in the First Round of the NCAA Tournament. The game is scheduled for 1 p.m., at Class of 1952 Stadium in Princeton, N.J. The Hoyas are currently ranked eighth in the country and received an at-large bid into the 16-team tournament. (see http://guhoyas.cstv.com/sports/w-lacros/spec-rel/050809aac.html to read more).

Notre Dame graduate, Lena Zentgraf, will have travel dates confirm this weekend.

Let's get behind the all our women by coming out to next week's game, Wed 13 May, 8pm vs premiers - Brighton at Finsbury Reserve.

Regards

It is not news to most our members that Mark Agostinelli will finally pull on the Warrior uniform this Saturday! Mark was the first pick of all the St Mick's lads but a disastrous double knee injury wrecked his dream of playing lacrosse for us in 2008. Many of us have looked forward to seeing what the other three lads told us was 'the best player on their team' in action. Good luck Mark and may you have a wonderful year of lacrosse in Australia this season.

Back to the future... Audi Glass

Our first overseas players back in the late 70s were Canadian. This year sees the first Canadian back in our ranks since Wayne McAuley - Audi Glass, star long pole middie from Bishop's University steps off the play on Friday morning! Audi has been talking with us for over a year now and we are excited to see him finally arrive down under. He will be living with his girlfriend and new league goalie, Amanda Wilson, with the Manning family.

Coup recruit! Jordyn Kirr

In what could be the biggest recruiting coup for our womens program, Division I Georgetown star, Jordyn Kirr, has signed on with the Warriors. Jordy was a member of the World Champion U/19 US team, winning the MVP of the Gold Medal Game in 2007 vs Australia.

She is second highest point scorer for her team. She was also invited to try out for the current US World Team going to Prague this year.

Check out her stats and some history at http://guhoyas.cstv.com/sports/w-lacros/mtt/kirr_jordy00.html & http://www.laxmagazine.com/sports/s-inter/content/022007aad.html.

Jordy is friends with past Warrior US player, Katie Mazer and should join us in the first week of June, dependent on how far her team goes in the NCAA play offs.

Goalie strength - Amanda Wilson

With star junior keeper, Bianca Parker, still being groomed for the big role and Giulia Marion not being able to commit to the job, it was necessary for Woodville to recruit in some strength in the net. Fortunately for the Warriors we were able to secure the services of Amanda Wilson, current starting keeper for Denison Univserity who was also high school All-American at Western Reserve Academy. Amanda has a strong keeping average of 12 saves per game and will be a key to our defensive strength.

Amanda is girlfriend with our Bishop's player, Audi Glass and will be staying with the Manning family. See her details at http://www.denison.edu/athletics/womens/lacrosse/women_s_lacrosse_roster.html.

Lena Zentgraf set to join team after mid season break

Lena is close to finalising her decision to join us after the mid season break.

In 2007 was voted as the University of Notre Dame's Most Valuable Player and was their third highest point scorer. Head coach, Tracy Coyne, said. "She's a natural leader. The recognition she's being given by her teammates demonstrates the tremendous amount of respect they have for her leadership, as well as, her game. We're really going to miss Lena's intensity and toughness on the field next year. I've enjoyed working with her and am so pleased the team has chosen to give Lena this honor."

Well done, you have done us proud and are a big part of the building blocks of the Woodville Warriors Womens Program.

Regards

Senior teams are training on Mondays and Thursdays from 6.15pm. Juniors are training on Thursdays only, until the 6th of April when training will also be conducted on Mondays (apart from Easter Monday). U8 and U11 training will run from 4pm-5pm while the U13, U15 and U18 grades will train from 5pm until 6pm.