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posted 07/11/2011 The Ipswich Youth Lacrosse program had a great season with 226 children participating in the 2011 spring program. Participants were from grades one through eight. We had 6 girl's teams and 6 boy's teams representing Ipswich on the North Shore
The program would not be possible without the dedication and support of a number of people and businesses.
Our sponsors provide the program with donations to enable a full season schedule and post season jamborees. Our gold sponsors this year were: Law Office of Donald Greenough, New England Biolabs, NMTW Community Credit Union and Windhill Realty. Our silver sponsor was: Morris Funeral Home. Our bronze sponsors were: Miles River Sand and Gravel, Sullivan Insurance and Commonwealth Realty Advisors. Special thanks goes to North Shore Printing for providing our programs and the Office Store for printing our sponsor thank you certificates. The Ipswich Youth Lacrosse program encourages all to patronize those businesses that support our program.
The cooperation and support from the Ipswich Public Schools was essential. Special thanks go to Athletic Director Tom Gallagher.
I thank the Ipswich Chronicle Sports Editor, Joshua Boyd for getting our weekly game summaries into the Chronicle.
Many of the team coaches are also board members and put countless hours preparing for the season and then many more hours coaching the weekday practices and guiding the Sunday games. Without coaches, there would be no program. Shawn Cayer, Marc Greenleaf and Derrick Hauerstein coached our girl's U9 team. Kerri O'Connor, Tom Herron and Brian Davis guided our girl's U11 team. Jim Hoog and Tim Costikyan coached our two girl's U13 teams. Brian Millard, Nathaniel Brown, Brian Henderson and John Meedzan coached our two girl's U15 teams. Jeff Silva, Josh Geller, Doug Smith and Rich Hartigan coached our boy's U9 team. Dave Morrow, Brett Johnson, Matt Delvecchio and Zach Pinciero coached our two boy's U11 teams. Peter Ginolfi, Mike Darisse, Mark Welling, John Gillis and I coached our two boy's U13 teams. John Wallace, Dennis Moriarty and Keith Killian coached our boy's U15 team. Thank you all.
Registration for the 2012 season will take place this coming fall. E-mails will be sent to all participants from this season, e-notices will be sent home to the public school children and there will be notices published in the Ipswich Chronicle.
Thank you,
Ken Swenson
Director, Ipswich Youth Lacrosse