Battle of Bothell 2010 Begins!!!

The Annual Battle of Bothell begins Friday 18th June and runs through Sunday, 20th.

Come up to the North Creek complex, enjoy some great Lacrosse and cheer on your IYL teams as they play for Championships in Lightning, Junior and Senior divisions!!

You can find Directions Here and Tournament Schedule Here!**

Make it a laxin weekend and make it to the Battle!

**Remember, schedule subject to change

2010 Washington State Boy's Championships

Washington Boy's State Championship games are today!

Make your way to Seattle's Memorial Stadium for an exciting evening of Lacrosse starting with the the Division II Championship at 5:00 PM and Division I Championship beginning at 7:30 PM.

If this is not enough Lacrosse you can fire up ESPN2 and start your day with the NCAA College Lacrosse semifinal matchups starting at 1:00 PM.

Stuck in Fargo - follow the games on the Walax Twitter feed.

ISD Girls Varsity hand Lakeside (10-1) a 18-5 Loss - Undefeated!

The ISD Girls Varsity closed out the regular season tonight undefeated!!

The Issy Lady Laxers handed (10-1) Lakeside Varsity a 18-5 drubbing on Senior Night to close out the season with a perfect 12-0 record; best in the Division II conference. Next on the agenda: a reprise trip to the Washington State Championship game with winning as the goal.

The road to the championship will be published on the IYL website shortly - be sure to mark your calendars and make the games! Show your support for our team and cheer them on to the WA State title!!!

Join Stealth Asst Captain & IYL Coach Sorenson At The Key!!

A message from Kyle Sorenson and Kyle Hartzell of your Washington Stealth...

IYL Players, Parents and Friends

We've had an amazing season! In our first year in Washington, we won our division and earned the #1 seed in the NLL playoffs. We beat the Minnesota Swarm in the first round on Saturday, and now we're getting ready to take on Edmonton in the semi-finals. As players, we feed off of the energy you've been giving us all year by your awesome support at Comcast Arena. And this Saturday, our game comes to KEY ARENA in Seattle for the first-ever professional lacrosse game at The Key!

Making this year even better for us has been the close relationship we have developed with Issaquah Youth Lacrosse and Skyline Lacrosse Club. We have truly enjoyed working with the players, coaches and parents of these great programs this year. We thank you for your support and hospitality, and we really appreciate that we have had the chance to work along side the coaches to help build lacrosse in the greater Issaquah area this season.

We would love to see all of you at The Key this Saturday. Plan to come and cheer us on to victory and the NLL finals! Pack The Key on Saturday and make it ROCK!

Tickets: Go to http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?et=1103365425482&s=130&e=001BPCQZ0yLoyWu-oOCQ7MLBwl80AIuJXnjf6S-PbY01y_H8HDXHdJBJe5EacpikJAejb6lYifIs4B1Kys-fNmYzvDklySIaxqH-5ZnunJO-2z19bVi7mmHDQ== or call 1-822-MY-75-TIX

Thank you!

Kyle Hartzell #18
Kyle Sorensen #11


P.S. From IYL: Be sure to identify yourselves as part of IYL when you buy your tickets! There are also some great offers that come with Saturday's tickets. For one, you get 25% off at Breakaway Sports through May 15 with your ticket stub from Saturday's game. Think about it: The discount on a head or shaft will pay for your ticket!

IYL Laxers - this Friday night, April 9th, is IYL Night as the Issaquah Lacrosse HS team takes on Mercer Island for a repeat of the 2009 Washington State Championship game! Varsity game time is 8:00 PM. The winner will emerge as the front-runner for the top seed in the 2010 playoffs.

Love great Lacrosse? You do not want to miss this game, and do not miss the chance to show your IYL pride at school and at the game by wearing your IYL game Jersey. This is one of the few times each year when you can wear your game jersey at a non-game event; so get it on and get in the game!!

The Issaquah High School club has designated this Friday as their annual "IYL Night" to recognize all the up-an-coming lacrosse players in the entire IYL system, both young men and women, and no matter what High School they may ultimately attend.

Want more Friday night Lax action? The Issaquah Lacrosse JV takes on the Mercer Island JV just ahead of the Varsity game: 6:00 PM @ IHS Stadium. Make it a double-header Lax evening!!

Parents & Players --

Tomorrow marks the first week of regular season games for the 2010 Lacrosse season. Good luck to all!

Our players have the privilege of playing lacrosse on excellent turf (synthetic) fields for many of their games, both home and away. Our teams' have home games at the City of Sammamish Skyline Community Fields, and at Issaquah Central Park in the Highlands. We must take care of these fields and treat them well, or we could lose our access to them. The rules for turf fields are very similar among all the facilities in our region, and these rules or their equivalent are posted at each field:

* No food or drink of any kind allowed on the turf, except water. This means no coffee, sports drinks, energy bars, fruit, etc. Water only.

* No animals on the field ever.

* Rubber cleats only. No metal cleats.

* Carry off what you carry on. Do not leave any water bottles, paper, clothing, etc.
Never walk on the field occupied by another group.

In addition, the City of Issaquah has an additional rule which we must strictly enforce for all games at Central Park:

* Spectators are not allowed on the turf before, during or after the game. Only players, coaches, and officials (including timers, spotters and scorekeepers) are allowed inside the fenced area. The spectator area for Central Park #5 (boys field) is at the far south end of turfed area along the low chain-link fence.

While these rules may cause you some slight inconvenience in the moment, losing access to the fields would be even worse and could be the consequence of our collective failure to honor the rules. So please do your part.

Good luck Saturday. Honor the Game!

Everett Hearld Online Poll - Should WIAA Sanction Lacrosse?

The Everett Hearld's online site HearldNet is conducting an online poll and the topic is dear to Washington laxer's hearts: Should the WIAA add Lacrosse as a Sanctioned Sport?

Let's get out the Lacrosse community and make our voices heard ! Click here to vote in the HearldNet Readers Poll.Lacrosse proponents have repeatedly brought WIAA sanctioning to a vote only to have the fastest growing sport in Washington (and America) shown the door. This year their are two Lacrosse proposals before the WIAA Representative Assembly. One to add Lacrosse for girls at the middle school and high school level, and a second to add Lacrosse for boys at these same levels. The WIAA Assembly will vote on these proposals when they meet on April 23.

Vote in the HearldNet Poll and help create a data exclamation point!

If you would like to learn more about Lacrosse and the WIAA, take a look at the excellent piece created by the Washington High School Boys Lacrosse Association: Why Isn't Boy's Lacrosse a WIAA Sanctioned Sport?