English Lacrosse Presentation Preparation

Structure
National
The National Competition Plan for young people is a partnership between Youth Sport Trust, Sport England, the National Council for School Sport (NCSS) and the National Governing Bodies of Sport and was Launched in September 2005, setting out the following vision: A world-class system of competitive sport for young people. Transformation of the content, structure and presentation of competitive opportunities for young people of school age. A heightened profile for school sport and, specifically, competitive opportunities.

Regional
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Local
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Functions
Whole Sport Plan Start, Stay, Succeed
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English Lacrosse has a long term vision To make Lacrosse one of the major team sports in England by substantially increasing participation for all. The way they are going to make this happen is by having 5 main key strategic priorities: Targeted growth in community clubs in specific identified geographic areas and communities.

Grow participation in 3 key age groups; 7 to 15, 16 to 21 and 22+. Implement a system of Talent Identification and Development to underpin the National Squad Programs. Grow the workforce available with the necessary and appropriate skill base. Enhance the services provided to the membership and the system of Corporate Governance.

Their key outcomes for 2013 are: Increase the number of persons over the age of 16 participating in lacrosse at least once per month to 13,000, with 8,900 participating each week (Active People Survey, IPSOS) Increase the number of members of English Lacrosse to 25,000. Increase the satisfaction of members in lacrosse by at least 5% based on the Lacrosse IPSOS survey. Expand the Centex system for females and males to train 800. Identified talented athletes. Identification of 10 Performance Clubs.

English Lacrosse has identified the following areas to assist in the growth of lacrosse membership: Universities. Further Education Colleges. School Sports Partnerships (Partnership Development Manager). County Sports Partnerships. Community Sports Networks. Community Groups. They are going to these areas because all the people are young, mostly enthusiastic and may be willing to try a new sport, maybe one they have never thought about playing.

Rule-making
Lacrosse is played using a small rubber ball and a long-handled stick called a lacrosse stick. It is a contact sport which requires padding. The head of the lacrosse stick is strung with loose mesh designed to catch and hold the lacrosse ball. Offensively, the objective of the game is to score by shooting the ball into an opponent's goal, using the lacrosse stick to catch, carry, and pass the ball to do so. Defensively, the objective is to keep the opposing team from scoring and to dispossess them of the ball through the use of stick checking and body contact or positioning. 10 on a pitch for each team. 5-6 subs.

Merchandising
English Lacrosse is sponsored by a range of different partners, including; Sport England, Sports Match and UK Sports. They also have commercial partners including; The Daily Telegraph, Pro-lax, Kukri, UK Lacrosse and Inside Lacrosse. Sport England is giving English Lacrosse an extra 199,250 from the 3.5million given to them along with other sports. You can buy a range of equipment from the UK Lacrosse website to use when playing Lacrosse. Equipment includes; equipment bags, a stick bag, gloves, shoulder pads, arm pads, rib pads, starter kits, footwear, game balls and throat guard.

Competitions and tournaments

There are many different competitions in Lacrosse, like the World Lacrosse Championship, Womens World Lacrosse Championship, Under-19s and European Championship.

Training of officials
For the young officials award you must be 14 years of age or older. To coach a team, the same applies to the introduction of practical lacrosse. The course certification needed is the English lacrosse certificate but for the level 1 VRQ or above you must be of at least 16 years of age to get to level one you must have the introduction to UK qualification and to get to level two you need the level one qualification this applies for each level of the course you

wish to progress too. You need other qualifications from different various courses if you wish to progress further than level one. They provide men's officials nationwide for all levels of play, provide training, services and representation for all men's officials nationwide at all levels of play, and provide all men's officials nationwide a forum in which to raise and address their ideas and concerns.

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