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2005 Garden State Lacrosse Challenge

Sponsored by The New Jersey Lacrosse Foundation, a Chapter of US Lacrosse

Our Vision To be recognized in the lacrosse community as an annual, must-attend event for collegiate lacrosse coaches, to discover the elite lacrosse talent that the state of New Jersey has to offer.

Our Mission To provide the top New Jersey high school lacrosse players,  a high-caliber all-star experience, while at the same time providing an outlet for collegiate coaches to observe, evaluate, and eventually recruit these student athletes for their respective lacrosse programs.

Our Goal To annually conduct a highly competitive, round robin lacrosse showcase, that offers a rewarding experience for all participants and collegiate coaches, providing a best-in-class information resource that is considered an invaluable tool for collegiate lacrosse player recruiting.

2005 Objectives 

• Provide all Garden State Challenge Games information and participant documentation through the NJ Lacrosse Foundation website: www.njlacrosse.org.
• Provide the opportunity for all individuals who choose to participate to have a positive experience regardless of their selection to one of the area teams.
• Field area teams every year with the highest level of high school lacrosse talent available in the state of New Jersey.
• Offer all participants who try out the opportunity to present their personal, academic, and athletic credentials to all the collegiate coaches who attend the event or who request the information.
• Provide on-line registration to all participants, players, and collegiate coaches, via the New Jersey Lacrosse Foundation’s website: www.njlacrosse.org and capture player profile information,  necessary to accurately represent their individual credentials.
• Provide all attending collegiate coaches, with a binder and CD complete with player profile information on every individual who tried out for the Garden State Lacrosse Challenge games. For those collegiate coaches who cannot attend the event, a CD at a cost of $25.00 can be shipped to them, outlining player profile information. To ensure that all collegiate coaches receive their player profile information package, the NJ Lacrosee Foundation recommends that all interested coaches register for this event.

Participant Requirements The Garden State Lacrosse Challenge Games are open to boys entering grades 10-12 as of September 2005. Anyone wishing to tyrout for the games must be a member of US Lacrosse.  If you are not a member of US Lacrosee, please click here to obtain membership information or call US Lacrosse directly ay 410-235-6882 x102.  You must provide proof of membership at the time of registration, in order to tryout for the games.  Any falsification of a US Lacrosse membership on any registration form will automatically disqualify a player from participating in the games.  Any players who meet the criteria above and wish to tryout, click here for our new online registration service.  If you are selected to participate in the games, the cost is $35 per player, payable to The New Jersey Lacrosse Foundation. All checks must be received no later than Wednesday, July 9^th in order to receive a team uniform. 

All Garden State Challenge participants must sign the New Jersey Lacrosse Foundation Contract and Pledge.

Participants will tryout for a regional team, based upon the participants HOMETOWN Region. Click here for the Regional Breakdown. Please note that if your town or school is not listed, you should tryout for the team in the region in which you live. This is new for the 2005 game. Click here to find out additional information about tryouts, and dates and times of tryouts, seeding and championship games.

All New Jersey High School coaches are encouraged to get involved and are invited to the tryouts.  All coaches in attendance at the tryouts will vote for one representative to be the head coach at the actual games.

For any questions you may have regarding this year’s Garden State Challenge Games, please contact our chairperson Peter O’Donnell at (973) 335-4667 or pmodmlnj@aol.com .

Regional Tryout and Practice Information

June 12th-15th.  Please e-mail your regional contact person for exact dates and times.

Region	Contact
Northeast - Bergen Catholic HS	Joe Haemmerle
Northwest - Mountain Lakes HS	Tim Flynn
Southeast - Watchung Hills HS	Andrew Apel
Southwest - Bridgewater Raritan HS	Chuck Apel

2005 Garden State Lacrosse Challenge

Tryouts (NE, SE):	Tuesday & Wednesday, June 14th and 15th @4:00pm.
Tryouts (SW Only):	Sunday & Monday, June 12th and 13th @4:00pm
Tryouts (NW Only):	Wednesday, June 15th @4:00pm.
Practices:	Monday & Tuesday, July 4th and 5th (as needed)
Seeding Games:	Wednesday, July 7th, site and times TBD
Tournament Games	Thursdsay and Friday, July 8th and 9th, @ Drew University
	Thursday (5:00pm-7:00pm); Friday (5:00pm-7:00pm)

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2005 Garden State Lacrosse Challenge

Regional Breakdowns: (please note: if your high school or town is not listed below, you should register and tryout for the regional team closest to the town in which you live. If you have any questions, feel free to e-mail the regional coaches listed )

Northeast: Coach (Joe Haemmerle)  Bergen Tech., Clifton, Don Bosco, Dwight-Englewood, Fair Lawn, Indian Hills, Kinnelon, No.  Highlands, Nutley, Paramus Catholic, Ramapo, Ridgewood, West Essex.

Northwest: Coach (Tim Flynn) Boonton, Chatham, Hanover Park, Jefferson, Livingston, Madison, Mendham, Montville, Morristown, Morristown Beard, Mt. Lakes, Randolph, Ridge, Roxbury, Sparta, Vernon, West Morris.

Southeast: Coach (Andrew Apel) Atlantic Lacrosse Club, Bernardsville, Colts Neck, Columbia, Edison, East Brunswick, Freehold, Glenn Ridge, Governor Livingston, Howell, Johnson, Manasquan, Millburn, Montclair, New Providence, North Brunswick, Old Bridge, Summit, Toms River Lacrosse Club, Watchung Hills, Westfield, West Orange.

Southwest: Coach (Chuck Apel)  Bridgewater-Raritan, Cherokee, Cherry Hill East, Cherry Hill West, Eastern, Ewing, Hillsborough, Hopewell Valley, Hun, Hunterdon Central, Lenape, Montgomery, Moorestown, New Egypt, Ewing, North Hunterdon, Peddie, Pennington, Princeton, Shawnee, South Brunswick, South Jersey Lax Club, Timbercreek, Vorhees, Washington Tswp., West Windsor (No.), West Windsor (So.).

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