Lacrosse, also known as Lax, is a club sport where both North and East high schools come together to form a team. Creating the Columbus Lacrosse Club. The club has gained traction and a decent turnout within the past few years, with both a girls’ and boys’ team.
Senior Chase Murphy, a returning player, talks about his pre-season.
“Pre-season and practices actually just started up. January 12th, which was our first official preseason practice,” Murphy said. This wasn’t the only time that players would practice, for sometimes they’d get their own work in. “Sometimes we’re not with some of the teammates. We went out to Tifton Park, and we shot around, and we passed around with each other,” Murphy said.
The pre-season tends to take place a lot throughout the beginning of the year, with the practices taking up a few days of the week. “They (the practices) take place about two to three times a week,” Murphy said. “We’ll either go Monday and Thursday, or we’ll go Tuesday, Thursday, Wednesday, or along the lines of that.”
The practices are there for people to sharpen their skills and act as a refresher so you are ready before the season begins. “Preseason and practice are really just about making sure that working that rust off,” Murphy said, “If you didn’t do anything in the off-season, like stick work, you usually get some conditioning work in and just sharpen up your skills.”
The pre-season genuinely has a decent turnout for both the boys and girls teams, senior Kaitlyn Netser goes into detail about it.
“There is a good turnout of returning players and we get new players wanting to try it for the first time,” Netser said.
According to Nester, the pre-season doesn’t shape the actual season. “It really doesn’t have an effect on the actual season because it’s completely different when we get on the field,” Netser said. “Some- thing’s more difficult to do on a gym floor, so it will be different on the grass.”
Another player, junior Megan Combs, talks about how her preseason does help her out before the actual season begins.
“Working out a lot more than normal, and practicing crateling the stick more while I do stuff around the house,” Combs said. The practices also helped her before the season.
“It makes me feel more prepared and less anxious about keeping up with the other players.”
Obviously, players who want to be there and those who don’t do poke out a lot. “You can just tell who wants to be there and who doesn’t want to be there. We can’t force anyone to go and not to go,” Murphy said, “Whoever comes and you know that they want to get better, and you know that they just want to run and play the game.”
