Coronavirus Update for April 14th
After meeting over the weekend, the SLYLA Board is officially cancelling the Spring Lacrosse season. SLYLA will return team registration fees in full to each program. As a reminder, SLYLA does not collect fees from individuals. Each program should provide information regarding how the program will refund player fees.
The Board is now focusing on preparing for Summer Lacrosse! We are working on an expanded Summer Season playing 7 games instead of 6 starting on Tuesday, 16 June and ending on Thursday, 1 August. As a reminder we will have 10U Boys and Girls, 12U Boys and Girls, and 14U Boys and Girls. All age divisions will play small sided format and the League is looking at adding a full field option for the 14U Boys and Girls! The birthdate cutoffs for Summer League is the same as Spring League, so your spring teams are good to come and play this summer! Just like past years, Boys will have games on Tuesday evenings and Girls games are on Thursday evenings. Younger players are welcome to “play up” in the older age groups.
If you have questions, just ask your Spring Team Coach or send a note to the Board at
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Please continue to take care of yourself, your loved ones, and the less fortunate in your community. We will all get through this together.
I hope to see everyone on the lacrosse field in June!
Dave Boots
SLYLA President
2020 SLYLA Spring League Information
Game weekends: Mar 28-29; Apr 4-5, 18-19, 25-26; May 2-3, 9-10
End of Season Tournament: May 16-17
Important Notes:
- 6U-10U Boys and Girls Games on Late Saturday Mornings / Saturday Afternoons
- 12U Boys and Girls Games on Saturday Afternoons
- 14U Boys and Girls Games on Sundays
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Spring 2020 Important Dates
- US Lacrosse Level 1 Boys & Girls Coaches Clinic Feb 16th, 8am-11am
- US Lacrosse Level 2 Boys Coaches Clinic Feb. 22nd, 8am-12pm
- Us Lacrosse Level 2 Girls Coaches Clinic Feb. 23rd, 8am-12pm
- REGISTER FOR LEVEL 1 & 2 CLINICS *CLICK HERE*
- Coaches Rules Meeting: March 12, 2020 (7pm)
- Team Registration Due: March 13, 2020
- Schedule Released: March 20, 2020
- Rosters Due: March 23, 2020
- Game Weekends: Mar 28-29, Apr 3-4, 18-19, 25-26;
May 2-3, 9-10
- End of Season Tournament: May 16-17
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2020 Summer League Important Dates
- Boys will play Tuesday evenings: June 16- July 28 (6 weeks total)
- Girls will play Thursday evenings: June 18-July 30 (6 weeks total).
- Format (both boys and girls) 7v7 (6 Field players plus a Goalie).
SLYLA is Implementing US Lacrosse's Small Sided Game Rules5/4/2018Read full... SLYLA is Implementing US Lacrosse's Small Sided Game Rules
As I'm sure many of you have seen, US Lacrosse is making dramatic changes and implementing youth rules that would allow for smaller sided games at most youth levels. Your SLYLA board has been discussing these rule changes internally as well as with several of our league program directors at the offseason meetings held over the last several months. Your SLYLA board wants to make sure everyone is aware that based on these meetings, it is the leagues' intention to play under these rules starting in the spring of 2017. This will mean for most age groups, among many other things, smaller numbers of players on the field, smaller fields and goals as well as smaller rosters.
Thank you for all you do to....
Honor the Game,
Your SLYLA Board
Season Hot Topic: Compliance!
Expect to see more Board Members on SLYLA Game Days checking compliance with league eligibility rules. All of the coaches and players on the field on game day should be listed on the team roster on the SLYLA website. Board members (in the white shirts) will be checking team rosters the first day of games. In addition, all the coaches should have a coach laynard showing their coaching credentials. We are asking the officals to enforce coaching credentials this year. The rule is simple: no laynard, no coaching. If you have questions, feel free to talk to any board member you see on game days.
2019 SLYLA Calendar
16 January: Program Director's Meeting/Team Registration Opens
16 January: Team Registration Opens
1 February: Coach's Registration Opens
1 February: Player Registration Opens
13 March: Mandatory Coach's Rules Meeting
15 March: Team Registration Closes
22 March: Team Schedules Published
25 March: Final Rosters Due (Player and Coaches Registation Closes)
30 March: League Games Start (Sat: 10U and younger; Sun 12U and older)
18-19 May: League Tournament/End of Season
Level 1 Coaches Clinic - March 3, 201812/29/2014Read full... Level 1 Coaches Clinics - Feb 16th, 8am-11am at The Warehouse (Webster Groves).
The 2020 season is fast approaching and with it, the requirement that SLYLA head coaches be U.S. Lacrosse Level 1 certified. In our continuing effort to help get all of our programs into compliance, SLYLA is once again working with the national office and the St Louis area local chapter of US Lacrosse to bring you another local opportunity to satisfy the only certification requirement that you cannot do on-line, the Level 1 Coaching Education Program (CEP) hands-on clinic. Below are instructions on how to register for the Coaching Education Program Hands-on Clinics:
To REGISTER GO TO: http://usl8.ebiz.uapps.net/PersonifyEbusiness/Default.aspx?TabID=487&_ga=2.181586144.616756495.1580070418-775589576.1579836171
- Under Level 1 Clinics, click on “Enroll Today" to start the registration process.
- Once you have selected all the clinics you want to attend, click Shopping Cart on the left side of the page and proceed to check out.
Remember, head coaches in SLYLA must be Level 1 US Lacrosse CERTIFIED for the 2020 season. This hands-on clinic is only 1 step of the process to become Level 1 certified. For information on the other steps, go to this page: https://www.uslacrosse.org/coaches/coach-development-program/instructional-clinics/level-1-clinic-information
For the 2020 season, we will be enforcing the coaching certification requirement.
If you have any questions about the clinic registration or certification process, please do not hesitate to contact Keith Brisotti, St Louis Chapter of U.S. Lacrosse Coaching Education Coordinator @ kbrisotti@yahoo.com.
Thank you.
Honor the Game,
SLYLA
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