More than 30 elementary-aged children took to the field at the Alva T. Stanforth Sports Complex on March 27 to learn lacrosse from their elders in high school.
The one-day intensive lacrosse …
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By Melissa Koenig
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4/6/21
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Stevens Cadet had not even heard of lacrosse until he was a freshman at Elmont Memorial High School, where he wanted to play football and baseball, but the coaches decided that lacrosse would be a …
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By Melissa Koenig and Ronny Reyes
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3/18/21
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The newest addition to the National Lacrosse League will be calling Long Island home but for one member of the New York Riptide, coming to Long Island is more of a homecoming.
Kieran McArdle grew up in Ronkonkoma in Suffolk County, about 32 miles east of Riptide’s new home at the Nassau Coliseum.
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By William Fitzpatrick
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11/5/19
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For the past year, Stevens Cadet has been flying back and forth from Haiti to Washington, D.C. to serve as the captain of Haiti’s national lacrosse team.
The Elmont-native was named the captain …
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By Melissa Koenig
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8/8/19
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As a freshman at Elmont Memorial High School more than a decade ago, Stevens Cadet wanted to play football and baseball. But when his two coaches conferred about the young two-sport prospect, they …
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By Ronny Reyes
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7/19/18
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As he’s done every season since taking over as Head Coach/General Manager of the New York Lizards in 2012, Joe Spallina is willing to make whatever moves he feels will improve the roster and put the team in position to challenge for the Major League Lacrosse (MLL) championship.
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By Tony Bellissimo
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6/26/18
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On July 1, a lacrosse team of Franklin Square boys in grades second through fourth grade represented the Franklin Square Elmont Police Athletic League when they competed in the 2017 Long Island LAX Pride Fest tournament in Garden City.
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By Vanessa Parker
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7/14/17
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Alyssa Garbarino’s second concussion came on a frigid Sunday afternoon when she was 17. Under overcast skies, Garbarino, of North Merrick, who was then playing with the East Meadow Soccer Club’s Storm, bruised her way through a sea of bodies. As she battled with her opponent on the Northport Cow Harbor United Soccer Club, she was constantly driven to the ground, her head hitting the hard earth. As fast as she went down, though, she popped back up. As the game wore on, she began to feel dizzy and developed a sharp headache.
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By Alex Boyd
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6/22/16
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Merokean Dylan O’Shaughnessy was out east in Smithtown, helping his mom, Liz, a landscape designer, with a client’s garden in late June, when he got the call: He had been drafted by the New York Lizards, which this year was the best team in Major League Lacrosse.
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By Scott Brinton
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8/19/15
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Sewanhaka High School held a senior signing award ceremony for Justin Alexandre, Daniella Ford and Brenton Mighty, who are entering college on athletic scholarships.
Alexandre, who was not present …
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7/16/15
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