About PHS Lacrosse

Plant High School Lacrosse

About PHS Lacrosse

12/11/09
Dear Parents and Players of South Tampa Sticks and Plant Lacrosse,

With our season rapidly approaching, I wanted to update you on our preparations. Thanks to your generous support in these challenging times, we have secured enough in donations to move forward with lights for our Anderson Fields. Since last season, we have raised over half of the $110k needed to pay for the lights. We have financed the balance and worked the payment schedule into our operating budget. The bids are in and we are working through the paperwork as I write this. Our intent is the have lights on one and half fields by the time our season begins. We will continue to use Foster and Coleman for youth and middle school practices, but all games are scheduled for our Anderson facility. Our high school programs will practice at Anderson. Of course, all this is contingent on completion of our construction by January 18^th- start date for all programs. But this is only the beginning. We still have 2 more fields to build and light, and a concession/restroom building in our plans. Your continued support and contributions are critical to developing our lacrosse facility.

2010 Teams:

We will be fielding our STS youth programs under Coach Shaler (2 competitive teams and 1 rec team)
STS Boys Middle School (2 teams) under Coach Kamen
STS Girls MS under Coach Howard
South Tampa Boys JV (depending on numbers)
South Tampa Boys Varsity under Coach John Guyton (moving up from Middle School)
Plant Boys JV under Coach Bottner
Plant Boys Varsity under Coach Shaw
Plant Girls Varsity under Coach Werry.

Tryouts for both boys varsity and girls varsity will take place during the first weeks of practice. Our coaches have had a good look at boys during our fall ball sessions and the girls have a pre-tryout session in early January. We look forward to fielding top quality teams with the great talent we see at all levels of our program. Plant Boys Varsity will play in-school teams only this year and seek our unprecedented fifth West FL Lacrosse League regional championship and fifth straight state playoffs. Our Plant Girls Varsity will look to secure our first regional championship after a close shootout last season. And our South Tampa Varsity is a new team that will represent our program in the highly competitive Sunshine State Lacrosse League featuring community varsity teams that are not directly affiliated with one school.

Please check our websites or check with your coaches for details and information on practice dates and games schedules. Registration for the 2010 Season will be up and running on the STS website at www.stickslax.org by this weekend.

Dave German

STS/Plant Lacrosse

www.plantlax.com

www.stickslax.org

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Board of Directors:
David German – President and High School coach
Kent Ihrig - Secretary, Treasurer and Legal Advisor
Jeanne Tate - Booster Committee liason
John Kamen - Middle School Coach
Steve Casselli - High School Coach
Jim Shaler - Youth Coach
Jim Jacob - Facilities Advisor
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History of South Tampa Sticks and Plant High School Lacrosse:

2001 - South Tampa Sticks Youth Lacrosse League, Inc. ("STS") founded and began with single boy's middle school team (played 1 game against a team from South Florida). Clearwater and Wesley Chapel began programs.

2002 - STS plays first "season" against local start-up programs, STS 501(c)(3) non-profit status.

2003 - Added STS JV, comprised mostly of Plant student players.

2004 - Added a Youth program to build feeder program; STS JV became Plant HS Varsity; established annual STS/Plant Fall Clinics to introduce new players to the game

2005 - Added STS girls varsity, established a Plant JV

2006 - Plant Varsity boys win first West Florida Lacrosse League Championship and go on to win the first ever Club State Championship held at Disney Sports Complex against Dwyer School.

2007 - Plant Boys again win WFLL Championship and runner up to Douglas School in State Finals at Disney, Florida Gulf Coast chapter of US Lacrosse is established and recognized nationally.

2008 - FHSAA recognizes lacrosse as a sanctioned varsity sport in the State of Florida. STS adds a middle school girls program. Plant adds a 2^nd varsity team in the "B" division of WFLL.

2008 - STS/Plant signs agreement with School Board for the use of Anderson Elementary Athletic Fields and secures a permanent home.

2008 - Plant Varsity Boys win 3^rd WFLL Championship undefeated within region. Again, runner up in State Finals (in overtime loss) to Palm Beach Gardens (20-0 in undefeated season).

2008 - Plant Varsity B and Girls HS make WFLL playoffs, but lose in first round.

2009 - Plant fields a second JV team - 105 HS players in 4 boys programs.

2009 - Plant Varsity Boys close game to Barron Collier in FHSIA semi-finals held at Barron Collier. Plant Varsity goes on to win 4^th consecutive WFLL championship against WCAA. 3 Plant players named as US Lacrosse All-Americans (German, Casselli, Tate) - first ever for Gulf Coast US Lax.

2009 - Plant Varsity B makes playoffs in Division B, but loses in first round. Girls Varsity loses close championship game against reigning champs - Freedom HS.

2010 - STS creates a Varsity and JV (Plant, Robinson, Tampa Prep, Jefferson) to compete in newly formed SSLL. Plant Varsity participates in the "in-school" only WFLL league.

Plant High School Lacrosse