Posts Tagged ‘girls lacrosse’

Bulletin board wisdom

Last weekend, I attended the 200th anniversary of Hamilton College in upstate New York. I graduated from Hamilton in 1978 as part of its last all male class. Much has changed at Hamilton during the last 34 years. There are new buildings, improved facilities, bigger trees and in 2008 the college won its first NCAA [...]

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RAK takes a record eight awards at 2012 Arizona Press Club competition

Five RAISING ARIZONA KIDS journalists took a total of eight awards at Saturday night’s Arizona Press Club Awards event, which recognizes professionals from across the state for reaching the highest standards of quality in reporting, writing, photography, design and multimedia categories. The event was held at The Duce in Phoenix. Though the magazine has won [...]

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JESSICA LIVINGSTON: Building Arizona’s girls lacrosse community stick by stick

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Fifteen years ago, an east-coast college coach put a lacrosse stick in Jessica Livingston’s hand—and she never let go. She packed up her passion for the sport when she moved to Arizona after graduation, and set out to build a lacrosse community as coach, player and general LAX evangelist. Jessica talks about the sport that [...]

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Arizona’s Jessica Livingston on cover of Lacrosse magazine

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Chaparral girls lacrosse coach Jessica Livingston is featured in this month’s issue of Lacrosse Magazine as one of the “10 people changing youth lacrosse now.” The magazine cites Livingston for creating AZ Girls Lacrosse, a K-9 instructional league she started with only five girls in 2004 and has since taught lacrosse to about 1,000 girls in [...]

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The best laid plans

Sometimes the day doesn’t go the way you expected. Despite your best intentions. And because of them. My husband and I planned to attend a girls lacrosse game on Saturday morning. We wanted to watch my honorary goddaughter, Ace Jenkins, in her first game of a new season with the Desert StiX. We showed up [...]

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“After Earth” sneak preview

A crash landing leaves teenager Kitai Raige (Jaden Smith) and his legendary father Cypher (Will Smith) stranded on Earth, 1,000 years after cataclysmic events forced humanity’s escape. With Cypher critically injured, Kitai must embark on a perilous journey to signal for help, facing uncharted terrain, evolved animal species that now rule the planet, and an [...]

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