Necessary For Life

Lacrosse, like many sports, offer skills necessary to succeed in life. It provides cooperation, discipline, determination, strategy and processing power.
It provides cooperation by you have to be able to work with new people and get along just like you do for a job. Also you have to cooperate with the coaches, similar to your boss. It teaches you discipline by penalizing you if you break the rules like most people will do later on if life. Determination just by simply giving you the drive to win and get the job done. Strategy by you have to plan out a strategy for the team your facing to win. Finally is processing. You have to be able to process the whole field at once in order to make the right choice just like later in life you have to make quick decisions that could impact you in a major way.

Why trust me

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I'm a very creditable person on this subject. I've been playing lacrosse for nine years now. I've been playing for multiple teams, but they're all based in Lancaster. I played for their house team that played local games. We never lost a game. Now I play for their travel team, the Buffalo Storm. Last year we went to three major tournaments, two in Michigan and one in Philadelphia. we won the two in Michigan and came in third in Philly. Another reason is I love the sport. Ever since I saw my first game, I knew that I would want to play it later. Now I have multiple colleges, ranging from D3 to D1. I've also tried before to get a team. Me and my mom tried once but got shot down. So, now i learned from my past and ready to improve the future.   

Benefits

Like all sports, lacrosse has many health benefits. As a result of playing lacrosse you can certainly increase your endurance due to have to run constantly on a field. Again, like most sports, you will become stronger and fast by playing it.
The mental benefits are that while playing your body releases Neurotransmitters and Endorphins.  Those are chemicals that your brain produces and it causes happiness and enjoyment. since your brain produces these chemicals, playing lacrosse can help reduce stress from school and helps reduce anxiety.

Cost

Lacrosse is a very expensive sport. You need to get a helmet, gloves, shoulder pads, elbow pads, cleats, mouth guards and other equipment in order to play. For men, lacrosse helmet can cost somewhere between $100-300. Gloves can cost from $40-200. Also shoulder pads can cost up to $150. Men's lacrosse arm guards can cost between $30-130. Then a lacrosse stick for men and women's lacrosse can cost between $30-150. The average cost for men's lacrosse is somewhere between $350-780. As you can see, men's lacrosse is a very expensive sport but its worth the expense.

Basics

The lacrosse field is about the size of a football field. There are 10 players on the field for one team, 20 in total. There are three positions, defense, attack and mid-fielder. The job of the defender is to get the ball out of the defensive zone or to stop the opponent from scoring. The mid-fielder, middies, have to run the entire field. They play both offensive and defense. Lastly are the attack men. They stay on the offensive side of the field and their job is to score on the opponents. The whole objective of lacrosse is to get the ball is the opponents net by passing the ball back and forth, up and down the field. Most games go for about two hours. There are two kinds of lacrosse, men's and women's. Men's is a full contact game while women's lacrosse can't hit each other, only knock or block the ball in the air. Those are the basics of lacrosse.