10 years ago this week a milestone in the history of Florida lacrosse was achieved in the swamp. No, not in “The” Swamp —as in the celebrated Gainesville haunt of Dan Mullen, Steve Spurrier, Urban Myer, and the Florida Gators. The particular “swamp” involved here was a decidedly lower-case one: the New Jersey wetland that…
It’s pretty easy to snicker at Jacksonville University’s self-proclaimed status as the “Lacrosse Capital of The South”. That’s assuming you came across the conceit on, say, a yard sign planted next to some sun-blistered campus equipment shed. Or on a bumper sticker slapped to the convertible of some ancient, leathery program booster. But that’s not…
Even some of the all-time best lacrosse players from Florida have had to overcome the stigma. What exactly has the knock been on Division 1 college lacrosse players from Florida? Traditionally it’d been that they were a lot like certain kinds of delicate Southern produce; they didn’t seem to travel too well, or at least…