Youth Lacrosse Academy
The Youth Lacrosse Academy is designed to teach the fundamentals of lacrosse in a fun, yet demanding environment. Players will learn the techniques such as shooting and passing, running with the ball, and defending. Players will be set into training groups based on factors such as gender, age, and skill level. Whether your son or daughter is a novice, just trying lacrosse for the first time, or has experience in the sport, there will be a place to train and learn this exciting sport. The Youth Lacrosse program at FFSP will be adding exciting events such as camps, tournaments, and summer clinics. For more information contact Jeff Lord, Director of Lacrosse, at jeffrlord@roadrunner.com.

About Coach Lord
Coach Lord has been playing and coaching lacrosse since 1971. He was a goalie at both the high school and college level and played collegiately at Cortland State. He began his coaching career in 1980 while teaching high school chemistry in northern New York. Along the way he has helped start high school lacrosse programs in four states and has taught dozens of eventual college players to play lacrosse. He moved to Erie in 1999, and
co-founded the Erie Youth Lacrosse Association in 2001 with local retired businessman and Princeton lacrosse All-American, Henry Fish. That same year he started the Erie Spears, and has started each subsequent high
school boys lacrosse team in Erie: McDowell (2004) and Cathedral Prep (2007). He has started summer youth lacrosse recreational programs as well as began the official board that later joined the ALOA. Coach Lord works as a process engineering consultant to the metal finishing industry and has a masters degree in Physical Chemistry.