Registration under way for Annandale Youth Lacrosse spring season

A lacrosse player learns some skills at an Annandale Youth Lacrosse fall clinic at Annandale High School. [AYL]

If you want your kids to play in the fastest-growing youth sport in the United States, now is the time to sign up with Annandale Youth Lacrosse (AYL).

Teams
for the spring season will form soon, and assessments begin Jan. 30.
“These are not tryouts. Every AYL player makes a team. Assessments allow
organizers to place players with comparable skills together so they can
learn lacrosse as a team,” says Kim Wright, a volunteer with the Annandale Boys and Girls Club, which oversees AYL.

Practices
are held twice a week with boys’ games on Saturdays and girls’ games on
Sundays. The AYL program serves girls in grades K-8 and boys from ages
U-9 (up to 9 years old) to U-15 AYL in the Annandale, Falls Church, Lake
Braddock, Stuart, and Woodson pyramids. Online registration is now under way.  

Lacrosse
is one of the oldest team sports in North America, having originated
among Native American tribes as early as the 1100s. AYL has introduced
thousands of local boys and girls to lacrosse over the years.

“Lacrosse
is the perfect sport for young athletes because it offers the best of
many other sports wrapped in one: You see the team building of football,
the field play of soccer, and strategy of basketball,” says AYL Boys
Commissioner, Keith Dalton. “Plus it’s so fast, the kids and their
parents just love it. And ultimately that’s our goal, for our players to
have fun.”  

Contact AYL, [email protected], for more information.