See the link below to check out the article that was written by Katherine Hasenauer of Examiner.com

http://www.examiner.com/x-1475-Lacrosse-Examiner~y2010m3d7-Lacrosse-on-wheels-wheelchair-lacrosse-takes-off-with-firstever-camp

No practice on Thursday 11th due to a church function and we will still have practice on Sunday 14th, but you’ll have to bring your own gear.  We’ll have our chairs for everybody to use, but we are shipping our pads and sticks up to San Jose for the camp.

Registration is filling up quick, so if you plan on making the first camp do it quick.  We’d hate for you to miss the boat. 

Hope to see everybody this Sunday or at the Camp!

We’ll be playing on Thursday (4th) and Sunday (7th) this week at Christ Lutheran Church on Thursday and the 4S Ranch Sports Park on Sunday.  Of course, weather permitted!    We’ve had some great turn-outs recently so we’ve had a lot of fun playing full court on Thursday and half-court on Sunday. 

We hope that we can have everybody come out on Sunday because we’re having an NBC reporter come out to shoot some video and do a piece about Wheelchair Lacrosse and it would be great to do some full court play for them.

As always, please let us know if you are planning on playing with us so that we can make sure that we have enough gear for everybody.  We also need that head count so that we can make sure that we have enough people play.  Nothing is worse than showing up and having only 3 people show up.

Don’t forget about the Camp…there is limited availability so sign up soon on Adrenaline Lacrosse!

Wheelchair Lacrosse Press Release

Wheelchair Lacrosse & Adrenaline Lacrosse

 Contact :
Ryan Baker
Wheelchair Lacrosse
info@wheelchairlacrosse.com

FIRST EVER WHEELCHAIR LACROSSE CAMP BRINGS
NEW ADAPTIVE SPORT TO SAN JOSE COMMUNITY 

Adrenaline Lacrosse and Wheelchair Lacrosse Partner to Host Inaugural
Training and Education Camp for Spinal Cord Injury Athletes

San Diego, Calif. (March 1, 2010) – Adrenaline Lacrosse, the leading lacrosse apparel, clinic and camp provider on the west coast, and Wheelchair Lacrosse, which created the nation’s only lacrosse program for disabled athletes, today announced a partnership to offer the first ever Wheelchair Lacrosse Camp to male and female sport enthusiasts. The camp, which will take place in San Jose, Calif. on March 21 and 22, will offer professional group instruction, one-on-one skills training and scrimmage play to attendees.
The sport of wheelchair lacrosse was developed in 2009 by Ryan Baker and Bill Lundstrom, both San Diego spinal cord injury athletes. What started as a brainstorm on the tennis court one afternoon quickly grew into a passion for the friends, who spent months experimenting with equipment, skills training and play rules that enabled the sport to be played by wheelchair athletes with varying levels of ability.

The result is an exciting, fast-paced sport that is truly revolutionizing adaptive sports and the lacrosse community. The Adrenaline team learned of the wheelchair lacrosse play and quickly got involved in activities designed to bring the new sport to players. 

“We are so excited to work with Adrenaline to grow the sport of wheelchair lacrosse, and the camp in San Jose is just the beginning of an entire program we want to develop for men and women living with spinal cord injury,” said Wheelchair Lacrosse Founder Ryan Baker. “The game is so progressive in the adaptive sport community and we look forward to seeing it grow on a national level.”

Primarily played on a roller hockey rink surface with slightly modified rules, wheelchair lacrosse players currently gather twice weekly for practice and scrimmage play in San Diego.  Members of the Adrenaline team had the opportunity to try out the game earlier this year; an experience which only further encouraged the company to get involved with the development of the sport.

“It was one of the most challenging things I’ve ever done as an athlete,” said Alex Cade, Adrenaline president and former Notre Dame Goaltender. “The Wheelchair Lacrosse group leant chairs to us for play and I learned quickly that pushing and playing is an exhausting effort! After about 20 minutes my arms felt like they were going to fall off.”
 
The March 20 and 21 Wheelchair Lacrosse camp is being held in association with Wheelchair Lacrosse, Adrenaline Lacrosse, Adrenaline Apparel, South Swell Sports and the City of San Jose. Thanks to the kind donations and support from all parties involved, only a fifty dollar fee will be charged for two days of instruction, training and play.

For more information about the San Jose Wheelchair Lacrosse Camp and to register for the camp, please visit the Adrenaline web site. For inquiries surrounding the sport of Wheelchair Lacrosse and how you can get involved, go to Wheelchair Lacrosse.

Our Wheelchair Lacrosse Camp has been added to the Sports ‘n Spokes calendar…

http://www.pvamagazines.com/sns/community/calendar/

We’ll be playing on Sunday (28th) only.  No practice on Thursday this week.  Please email us and let us know if you plan on playing.  If we don’t get enough people we’ll have to cancel practice. Sunday we’ll be playing at 10am at the 4S Ranch Sports Park @ 16118 4S Ranch Parkway which is at the second parking lot.

Bring your friends, enemies, in a chair or able-bodied so we can get some full court play going.  And as always, please let us know if you’ll be playing with us so we bring all of the gear and have enough chairs to go around.  We’re having more able bodied players than wheelchair players right now.  It would be great to switch that to have more wheelchairs playing with us again.

Camp information is on our website http://www.wheelchairlacrosse.com/.  Check it out!!!  It would be great for some of you guys to make the trip up to San Jose!  Registration info: http://www.adrenalinelacrosse.com/2009/event.php?eventid=520

Hope to see everybody soon.

A little 2 on 2 video with Bob, Jim, Ryan and Bill