Gait Cup

The Gait Cup has 39 teams arranged into two divisions, Elite and Upper, each with four pools of five teams.  Hinsdale is in Pool A of the Upper Division.  A series of games are played within the pool to determine seeding for the tournament beginning on Friday at 1pm.  Eventually, the final four of each division play on Saturday morning, with two division champions determined by noon.

Elite Division

Pool A
Connecticut Hurricanes
Jax Possums U19
Chesapeake Rock Green
Carolina Colts
Team Tennessee

Pool B
Black Jax Black
Team Illinois West Varsity
Chesapeake Rock White
Maryland Express
Team Kentucky

Pool C
Long Island Express 2009
Mesa Fresh
Orl Possums U19
University North
Montclair

Pool D
Maryland Fireballs
MidWest Lacrosse
Green Turtle
University South
Pittsburgh Rebels
Upper Division

Pool A
Black Jax Red
Excell Storm
Hinsdale Central
Orl Possums U17
Team Louisville

Pool B
Cincy Royals
Connecticut Seminoles
Maverik Possums U17
Pure Lacrosse
University East

Pool C
Colorado Select
FCA Harrow
Team Georgia
Maverik Possums U19

Pool D
Connecticut Gators
FCA Outback
Jax Possums U17
University West
Team Illinois White

Wednesday Evening

Black Jax Red (Boston) vs Hinsdale; field 7; 6pm  WIN 4-3 (1OT)

Thursday

Friday

Chi-Town Showdown

Varsity Saturday Results:

Varsity Sunday Results:

Great Lakes Lacrosse Tournament

JV Saturday Results:

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JV Sunday Results:

Hinsdale Central Athletic Training Room Schedule

Go lift weights this summer --

June 30-July 3:   7am-1pm

July 7-10:          7am-3pm

July 14-17:        7am-3pm

July 21-24:        7am-3pm

2009 Spring Break & Season Start

The first day of practice for 2009 will be Monday, March 2nd.

Tryouts will be only the first three days.

Spring Break will be from March 30 through April 3; Spring Break practice will take place on last three days of the week, April 1, 2, & 3rd, and will be mandatory for all Varsity players.

Lacrosse as a State Sport

"Any day now", has been the answer to the question of when Lacrosse will become a state sanctioned sport for several years.  The state sanctioning body is the Illinois High School Association (IHSA) and according to their by-laws, ten percent of the IHSA member schools must participate in the sport before it becomes sanctioned. Right now, there are 720 schools in the IHSA, which means that there must be 72 schools playing Lacrosse.

As of last season, there are 56 boys teams and 36 girls teams.  Because of "Co-op" teams where a school district fields one team for all its high schools there are actually 61 schools participating in Boys Lacrosse.  This is eleven short of the 72 school requirement.  The IHSA requires either boys or girls to reach the number, they will not count both.

Every year more schools create teams and become part of Illinois Lacrosse; York, Hinsdale South, and several others joined this past season.  The IHSA could decide that the growth warrants early adoption, or they could wait until there are more than enough varsity teams.  No one knows for sure, we only know that it will be "any day now".

Board Meetings

Lacrosse Board Meetings are held at Hinsdale Central High School, room 124A and begin promptly at 7pm.  All interested parents are welcome to attend.
Meetings: August 5, September 2, October 7, November 4, and December 2.  See you there.

Robbins Park Lightning Alert System

The park district has installed a state-of-the-art Lightning Alert System in Robbins Park to warn players of Lightning within a two mile vicinity of the park.  The park district requests that we exit the field in the event of an alert, and not return until the strobe light is off.  For more information see the flyer here.