other sports?

[stanglax07]

hey gals
does anyone play any other sports? I play field hockey and volleyball along with lax. right now I'm in intense pre-season practice / try-outs for FH. anyone else play a fall sport?

[laxbabe2121]

i used to play tennis, and do those weight lifting meet thingies. but then my coach stuck me in lacrosse 24/7 so i didn't have time for another sport.

[LancerLaxGoalie]

field hockey, goalie, it sucks i hate the sport its so slow compared to lacrosse. I only play to stay in shape for lax. No sport can ever compare to lacrosse.

[sumSum]

I play tennis and sail and play lax year round.

[laxstar003]

i'm planning on running cross country next year. i'm replacing swimming, 'cause i got bored with it. so it'll be xc & lax.

[LAXgryl]

I play soccer in the fall for my school's team. I was just on the JVC team, since I'm not very good, and am just in it for the conditioning for lacrosse. It's very copetitve, and I don't think I'll ever be half as good as some of the girls on the team. Is soccer very big in the East Coast? I know it is in the West Coast, and there's a bazillion soccer clinics and camps year round and during the summer. There's only one lacrosse camp during the summer at the University of Washington. But it's growing: Washington state #2 in lacrosse participation growth in U.S.

[sumSum]

Yeah, soccer is HUGEMONGOUS on the East Coast.

Being at my new school, where its required to play a sport all seasons, this fall I played soccer and right now during the winter I'm playing basketball. I cant wait for lacrosse though and pre-season will be starting up soon. GOD I CANT WAIT! Haha. I find it fun and challenging to play other sports though. It gives you a good perspective and all.

[laxchc11]

used to play fh (in Hs and freshman year in college..... don't know why... i have always hated that sport). I also swam competetively from about age 3 till senior year in hs. I miss it sometimes, but I definitely don't miss green hair and smelling like cholorine from November till February. It's funny,. the sport I've been playing the shortest period of time I ended up loving the most

Lancer: Imagine growing up in the US mecca of field hockey: Virginia Beach. Here, girls are given sticks as soon as they're born (kinda like lax is in NY and MD). I guess thats why I hated it, b/c EVERYONE played it and when you come from the fh capital of the US, you're expected to be amazing.

[LAXgryl]

I never knew field hockey was a sport until freshmen year in high school (last year). There isn't any league for it in high school, but if I do recall when I searched it on the Internet, there's one women's field hockey club team in Washington. I've never met anyone in real life that's played field hockey. It's so weird how much sports differ from coast to coast.

[sumSum]

It is weird, your right. Its the same way with lacrosse though.

Personally you might be able to date it back to the fact that the East was settled first...who knows. Lax is catching up in Cali and Oregon though. Just watch out ;)

[laxbabe2121]

yeah i was surfing in cali a few weeks ago, and it was pretty early in the AM so there weren't that many ppl on the beach. I was coming in from a wave, and i saw these 2 guys throwing a lacrosse ball back and forth. they weren't very good, but i started talking to them, and they said that they just picked it up and that most HS teams still didn't have it, but they wanted to start on in the spring. its good to see lacrosse expanding to the west. maybe one day lacrosse will be as big as it is here on the east coast.

[SSG31]

as a canadian, it's my duty to have played hockey (goaltended there too)

also have a rugby background, but i quit that for lax (was one annoying lil flanker for the oppositon tho)

[laxbabe2121]

that is so hot how you play ice hockey. girls that play it are usually so incrediblly nice.

[SSG31]

heheh...you get your mixes...(o the stories i could tell) but i must say i've met some incredibly hot girls playing hockey

but i must say, i miss the sport....it interfered with my lacorsse season (university ball goes in the fall..so does hockey)...guess which sport i quit?

[CaliLaxChica05]

lax is definetly starting to get big in cali. there is a growing amount of HS and college teams and even national teams. we have so many more camps and leagues. kids are even beginning to start to pick up the sport in middle school, and hopefully there will be younger kids starting to pick up a stick. but of course i dont think we are as good as you east coast girls as you have had the sport around longer and have taken it up at an earlier age. but we will get there soon! :wink:

[LatinBabe]

I play either lax or vball 24/7. I have a boyfriend... but sadly am in too many leagues (school or outside school) to spend much time with him. I play vball nonstop during the fall and winter, and lax year round.
Used to swim... but havn't for a few years... used to play softball... but got too commited in lax... used to play basketball... but quit growing! :)
So yeah... that is what i do.

[SSG31]

yes! i have now joined the Fencing Club........will post how that went tomorrow if i'm not skewered

[Bouncing_Soul]

fencing is hardcore

[LatinBabe]

I have never tried, nor do I know anyone that does fence. so yeah... oh wel, it sounds like fun.

[Bouncing_Soul]

you've never fenced?!?...neither have I. It seems a little too blue-blooded of a sport for me.

[stanglax07]

you play vball? I LOVE VBALL. it's so much fun! i have a vball game tomorrow. yay!

[sumSum]

They have a really good fencing team at my school. I was going to do it then changed my mind and am playing basketball right now.

I saw the NCAA women's volleyball semi's on TV. It would be sweet to play for Hawaii. Asics just made the team a new shoe too! I also have a bunch of friends who play.

[Wales-lax]

lax, field hockey, swimming, figure skating, ballet, gymnastics, track- kind of a weird mix but i love sports

[BG Lacrosse]

In highschool I use to cheer for an allstar squad, cheer for my high school, swim, volleyball, track. I know that lax and cheerleading are not quite the same but you can tell that i was a cheerleader when i'm on the field because i am always cheering the other girls on!

[newbie]

Haha, I used to fence. :o)

I row at the Cdn national rowing training centre, I play lacrosse, I swim and of course work out when I can. During the fall I row, swim and play soccer. I'm hoping to find a lax league that goes during the fall... So far no luck.

[tobetobe]

calilaxchica-where in socal do u live? i live there too. i agree, lacrosse is definately growing on the west coast!

[stxbionic42]

Originally posted by LAXgryl
I play soccer in the fall for my school's team. I was just on the JVC team, since I'm not very good, and am just in it for the conditioning for lacrosse. It's very copetitve, and I don't think I'll ever be half as good as some of the girls on the team. Is soccer very big in the East Coast? I know it is in the West Coast, and there's a bazillion soccer clinics and camps year round and during the summer. There's only one lacrosse camp during the summer at the University of Washington. But it's growing: Washington state #2 in lacrosse participation growth in U.S.

i play in issaquah 7/8th grade boys... what highschool do you play for?

[GCHSLax04]

Originally posted by sumSum
I play tennis and sail and play lax year round.

I sail too! we have a 27 footer on lake michigan, some of the bests times come from on that boat :laugh

[eireann]

soccer and basketball are good conditioning for lacrosse. the big sport in california is volleyball and baseball, though soccer is big too. lax is growing fast here, and not without my help if i do say so my damn self (i cannot shut up about it to anoyone.) :clap

[senor_k]

Originally posted by Wales-lax
lax, field hockey, swimming, figure skating, ballet, gymnastics, track- kind of a weird mix but i love sports

What? No Jai Alai? or Cricket or curling or bocce? How do you find time for 7 sports?

[spenny]

summer what class boats do you sail? ive raced FJs, lasers, and the sunfish class. now i just sail our phantom for fun when i can get up to maine

in HS at various times i played Soccer, Track, Hockey, Squash, and Sailing
in college i played Soccer as a freshman, but just lax after that, altho i did play squash for exercise and intermural hockey
since college co-ed softball for fun and squash for exercise.

my mom who taught me to sail, fenced in college, she tried to teache me that too, but i was more interested in swinging the foil like a pirate, so she decided that probably not a good sport for me :)

[RYU]

Originally posted by spenny
my mom who taught me to sail, fenced in college, she tried to teache me that too, but i was more interested in swinging the foil like a pirate, so she decided that probably not a good sport for me :)I guess they didn't offer sabre style fencing??? Foil and epee = poking. Sabre = slashing.

[spenny]

Originally posted by RYU
I guess they didn't offer sabre style fencing??? Foil and epee = poking. Sabre = slashing.

they did, but i believe sabre to be one of the more advanced flavors, i think the learning curve is foil-epee-saber. and the boundries arent any fun, i wanted to be errol flynn, swinging thru the rigging, something the teacher was decidely unimpressed by :)

[senor_k]

spenny: I've raced Lasers and Sunfish too! Lasers are awesome, but Sunfish have a few design flaws, like when it capsizes it automatically goes belly-up. At this Boy Scout camp I go to, they don't let the kids take the sunfish out anymore, because they sank 3! I have also sailed El Toros, but those blew, they were like a bathtub with a sail.

About fencing: I tried it for a few weeks, but I quit because the teacher wouldn't let us use the swords until we had been going for a while. My sister stayed with it, but she quit for some reason, I can't remember.

Another good sport is archery. I have a nifty 35-lb. recurve, and there's a range near my house, so I go up there sometimes.

[spenny]

you have to let go of the sunfish right away or they will definately turtle.
have you ever raced a laser II? you can rig them with spinnakers. they go like crazy.

El Toros, ive sailed one but never raced them. they are fun, at our summer house in maine we ued to race these double flat ended boats called prams sort of like an el toro but an ever flatter front. there was a guy on the lake who made them from marine plywood, heavy, slow, but it was fun

our sunfish isnt really a sunfish, its a phantom, its essentially a sunfish, but slightly redesigned. they still sail in the sunfush class. i bring it up because you really cant sink them, and they fixed a lot of the design flaws

[sumSum]

I've sailed Optomists and FJs...oh and Lasers and Sunfish (I think I sailed a Sunfish anyway) and one more type of sailboat I sailed at summer camp once.

[senor_k]

I think the guy who design the original sunfish did it as a joke, like "Hey, Bob, check this out! I bet some people would actually buy these things! LOL!"

Ive also sailed a Hobie Cat, which was pretty cool, especially the harnesses for keeping it level. (I forget what they are called).

[spenny]

Originally posted by senor_k
I think the guy who design the original sunfish did it as a joke, like "Hey, Bob, check this out! I bet some people would actually buy these things! LOL!"

i think it was more along the lines of "build the cheapest boat that we can sell and still make some money"

Ive also sailed a Hobie Cat, which was pretty cool, especially the harnesses for keeping it level. (I forget what they are called).

its called a trapeeze, or just trap. hobie cats go like crazy too.

[Laxergirl]

i play golf in the fall, basketball in the winter and lax in the spring. ive played basketball the longest- ever since the third grade. its amazing how similar bball is to lax in some aspecs. ive played bball year round since like 7th grade though...im kinda getting burned out on it. but ive always wanted to try playing rugby. it seems like a lotta fun but im not sure if there are womens leagues or whatever. plus i used to do taekwondo when i was little and have wanted to start doing that again but dont seem to have the time

[sumSum]

There are womens leagues for rugby. My cousin Ali plays at her high school which is pretty cool. My old math teacher played for the USA womens team which is freaking amazing!

Anyway if you did a search you could prolly find info on it. Rugy is intense but from what I've seen/heard pretty cool. I've always wanted to see a match in person.

[happykeeper]

soccer, basketball, lacrosse...

[girlslaxdad]

Did I mention that my little girl plays ice hockey (oh yeah I thnk I did :) She also did a couple years of competitve jump rope, which was kind of cool. (I'm so proud of her).

[lilaxgurl23]

hehe a true sports dad lol. I use to play softball,basketball,volleyball, (swam for a little while,okay like 4 weeks in hishschool but all the time when I was younger) and I play tennis and lax (lax mostly, tennis just as another activity). Basically i have done every sport except soccer. I went to a soccer camp once for a week... I swore i would never do it again. Oh well. I am pretty athletic, I think PE is my favorite subject in school. If we had rugby I would so play lol. Everything that is a true sport will just catch my mind, I can't get enough of em.

[laxfolife24]

i play basketball and i just took a break from soccer. i used to swim but it was so boring

[aLAXc5]

I play Field Hockey in the fall and lacrosse in the spring...use to play softball and basketball and track but cant do all that anymore..i narrowed it down to my 2 favorite sports...and could not imagine never playing them again...and it is killing me to make a decision about which one to drop if it comes to that

[ladylaxer18]

I've played field hockey, volleyball, basketball, swimming, softball, tennis, and track/cross country. But now I really just play soccer in the fall/winter and lax year-round.

[Jack Attack]

I play soccer in the fall even though im on jv cuz a million frosh's are on Varsity this year, Lax goalie year round, cheerleading..lol ive been doing it forever and it keeps me in really good shape, dance, used to play softball, feild hockey and street hokcey but that all god shoved when lax came round!

[calizzlelax]

gotta rep basketball, but lax has def taken over. love me some golf too! those girls who play rugby, stanford has a great team, i think they just won NCAA. go for it.

[Garor]

I play tennis, well, just to do something other than lax. I used to play soccer and basketball, but I don't anymore.

[celtlax]

field hockey....

[Laxordie24]

cross country for the first time this year and i have a horse..for when im not playing lacrosse

[xxLAX43xx]

basketball and lacrosse.... played flag football for my highschool last yr. that was a lot of fun too.

[PompLax14]

They should have women's football.

[SEMlax]

Soccer in the fall, indoor soccer in the winter, badminton in the winter, and lax all year round

[Trilax03]

used to play soccer up until this season

[laxlover]

well i play soccer.... but im way better at lax.... and i run track meets whenever i can.......