Tewaaraton Award

It was great to see and hear all the passion and sportsmanship with the close-knit Lacrosse community at the Tewaaraton awards at the Warner Theater in DC.  Lacrosse is one of the oldest team sports played in North America and the award honors the Native American heritage of lacrosse in the name of its trophy, "Tewaaraton," the Mohawk name for their game. 

This was the first year of the Tewaaraton Legends Award, and professional football and lacrosse Hall of Famer Jim Brown was selected as the inaugural recipient.   It was great to hear all the old stories from his teammate and legendary coach Roy Simmons Jr.   I have enjoyed shooting this event the past few years and having Jim Brown receive this award was a bonus this year.   

Congratulations to Steele Stanwick and Shannon Smith as this years winners.  

Championship Monday

Congratulations to the University of Virginia lacrosse team for winning D-1 National Championship. UVA are now 5-4 in NCAA Tournament championship games, and is this fourth for Cavalier head coach Dom Starsia. Thanks to a game strategy that worked well against the Terrapins, the game was very low-scoring and the first quarter was the lowest scoring first quarter in NCAA Division I Championship game history.

I had trouble finding a rhythm to the game in the first half, the but second half worked better for me. Overall I was happy with the game photos and here are a few samples from the game.

NCAA Lacrosse Semi-Finals Game 2

The Maryland vs Duke game had a much different feel with the larger home-team crowd getting into every hit, shot and save.   This Maryland team can hit and it looks like Duke just was not ready for what the Terrapins had in store.   Should be a good game on Monday with UVA vs UMD and full stadium.    

NCAA Lacrosse Semi-Finals Game 1

Not much of a game after UVA pulled out to a big lead and I was struggling all day to get in the grove of the game.  First my main camera (Canon Mark III) broke (again) and I had change my set-up during the game and then UVA played keep-away the second half and the action was minimal.   Good that I had my old reliable Mark II as a back-up.   Here are a few samples from the game and good luck UVA on Monday in the Championship game. 

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