Fastest Growing Sport in the Valley You've never played!
One of the fastest growing high school spring sports in the Valley.
A sport very few of us have ever played.
Selah verses Ballard High of Seattle. At the Viking ship. A showdown in lacrosse. Kind of a mix of hockey, soccer....with a good dose of football ruggedness thrown in. Lacrosse....cool game. Definitely not for whimps. Senior Colton Welch....a year and change veteran of the la crosse wars.
Colton Welch "Some buddies started playing and they said it was fun and its kind of like football and I like being aggressive. I tried it out. It lined up with me."
Lacrosse a club sport, with this local team battling division foes in Wenatchee and the Tri-Cities with outside matches against seattle schools. 20 plus spring season games in all. The 4th year for high school la crosse locally......started by Selah teacher Jeff Cochran.....who got it all rolling back in his undergraduate days....when he put together a club at Central Washington University.
Jeff Cochran "Played in college, and when I became a teacher. Was a high demand for it. Lot's of kids didn't have a sport in the spring, wanted to start playing."
and, now they can't stop playing. After only a few seasons of this sport in the valley.....the local lacrossers are hooked....their new high school experience just whetting the appetite.
Colton Welch " We're graduating 22 kids this year off our team. So, we're trying to get a men's club started after this year if these guys all come back after summer. Locally? So, you're digging it? I love it."
A labor of love......kicking off a new sport none of us knows much about....then drumming up enough support to give it a chance to succeed..........and it has. Now Coach Cochran with sights set on starting some feeder programs at the middle school level.
Jeff Cochran Because everybody we play has been playing at least three or four years. Is it growing? It's growing. We started with 28 and this year we had 47. Very cool. You must be happy with that. Extremely excited. It's growing fast, almost too fast. You having fun? I'm loving it."
A sport very few of us have ever played.
Selah verses Ballard High of Seattle. At the Viking ship. A showdown in lacrosse. Kind of a mix of hockey, soccer....with a good dose of football ruggedness thrown in. Lacrosse....cool game. Definitely not for whimps. Senior Colton Welch....a year and change veteran of the la crosse wars.
Colton Welch "Some buddies started playing and they said it was fun and its kind of like football and I like being aggressive. I tried it out. It lined up with me."
Lacrosse a club sport, with this local team battling division foes in Wenatchee and the Tri-Cities with outside matches against seattle schools. 20 plus spring season games in all. The 4th year for high school la crosse locally......started by Selah teacher Jeff Cochran.....who got it all rolling back in his undergraduate days....when he put together a club at Central Washington University.
Jeff Cochran "Played in college, and when I became a teacher. Was a high demand for it. Lot's of kids didn't have a sport in the spring, wanted to start playing."
and, now they can't stop playing. After only a few seasons of this sport in the valley.....the local lacrossers are hooked....their new high school experience just whetting the appetite.
Colton Welch " We're graduating 22 kids this year off our team. So, we're trying to get a men's club started after this year if these guys all come back after summer. Locally? So, you're digging it? I love it."
A labor of love......kicking off a new sport none of us knows much about....then drumming up enough support to give it a chance to succeed..........and it has. Now Coach Cochran with sights set on starting some feeder programs at the middle school level.
Jeff Cochran Because everybody we play has been playing at least three or four years. Is it growing? It's growing. We started with 28 and this year we had 47. Very cool. You must be happy with that. Extremely excited. It's growing fast, almost too fast. You having fun? I'm loving it."
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