There was a major move in the world of college lacrosse yesterday.
Joe Lombardi reported on LaxLessons.com’s “Lacrosse Insider” section that Princeton University filled its assistant coaching vacancy created when Greg Raymond left to become head coach at Hobart.
Former Army three-time All-American John Walker is the new assistant under coach Chris Bates. He will also serve as defensive coordinator, a position he held at Virginia the last three years.
Walker is a former Half Hollow Hills West HS (N.Y.) star, whose dad, Wesley, was a star wide receiver for the New York Jets.
Later in the day yesterday, Princeton issued a press release confirming Joe’s report. You can read it here.
Also this week, we’ve been providing updates on the annual lacrosse festival known as the Lake Placid Lacrosse Summit, which is a year shy of its 25th anniversary. You can get caught up with championship results, stories and photos here.
Recruiting is always in the spotlight when it comes to lacrosse. The newly launched program at the University of Michigan has been making majors strides as we’ve documented. Our reports on the recruiting efforts of head coach John Paul and his staff are featured in this story.
We continue now with the best of this week’s lacrosse news on one page.
Here are more stories in our “News & Notes” feature, where we highlight not only important news, but good journalism. These are the most newsworthy, interesting, best reported, originally sourced and well-written stories from throughout the lacrosse world this past week.
Are we missing a story you enjoyed and thought was well done? Be sure to email the link to us at info@laxlessons.com.
* Hofstra’s Unterstein promoted to associate head coach
* MLL all-star Poillon joins Hobart staff as offensive coordinator
* Steele Stanwick plays for the love of the game
* Move to basketball-like shot clocks in men’s college lacrosse continues
* Changes recommended to increase NCAA Final Four attendance
* University of Denver searches for new mascot
* Three-time U.S. men’s national team attackman Ryan Boyle retires from Team USA
* Singapore becomes 47th member of Federation of International Lacrosse
* There’s a lacrosse connection between Ohio State and Peterborough
* Field lacrosse popularity on the rise in Alberta
* Denver Outlaws eye unbeaten regular season
* Rundown of stories from LaxLessons.com/blog this past week
* Rundown of recruit commitment stories from LaxLessons.com this past week
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Posted In: News & Notes, News & Notes - 2013
Nice scoop on Walker getting the Princeton job Joe!