oregon lacrosse chapter hall of fame program 2015-web version

Oregon Chapter of US Lacrosse

2015 HALL OF FAME B A N Q U E T C E L E B R A T I O N

Presented by the

November 20, 2015

The Oregon Chapter of US Lacrosse

Congratulates the 2015 Oregon Lacrosse Hall of Fame Inductees

Juliet BakerCarol HartleyDon HuberJoe KerwinJim Kotchik

Tucker PiersonBill Rexford

C. Kent RobertsDale Waagmeester*Joanne Hauseman*

Mark Sleasman* Fred WoodErin Wright

* Voted in as a group

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Welcome to the 2015 Hall of Fame Induction Awards Dinner and Banquet Celebration.

With our previous induction ceremony being in 2007, we are happy to honor the achievements of our 2015 class and to catch up on honoring and celebrating those who have done so much for the sport of lacrosse in Oregon!

Our honorees tonight are being recognized for having demonstrated exceptional accomplishments as coaches, officials, umpires and administrators who have distinguished themselves by example of their great contribution to the excellence and development of lacrosse in Oregon.

The Oregon Chapter of US Lacrosse Board and the Oregon Hall of Fame Committee congratulates the inductees for receiving this honor.

We hope you all enjoy this evening as you share this special event with friends and family.

Sincerely,

The Hall of Fame Committee and the Oregon Chapter Board

Timothy D. Rossi Robert J. LaudigPresident, Coaches Education Coordinator,

Oregon Chapter of US Lacrosse Oregon Chapter of US Lacrosse

Dear Hall of Fame Inductees and Friends of Oregon Lacrosse,

CLASS OF 2007:Thomas Foster Samuel SadtlerHilary W. Gilmore Andrea Lynn Shatz Bill Lake Curt Sheinin Brian Platz Holly Allen Ziegler

CLASS OF 2002 INAUGURAL CLASS:Mark Flood Kris Van Hatcher Jim Reggie Hammon Fred Zensen

THE OREGON LACROSSE HALL OF FAMEPREVIOUS CLASSES AND INDUCTEES

The Oregon Chapter would like to thank the Oregon Lacrosse Hall of Fame Committee for their support in this process for the 2015 event.

There are many people who have contributed to the development of lacrosse in Oregon, and the Chapter will continue to celebrate those who have contributed their service to this development.

The Chapter would also like to thank those who contributed to the Silent Auction for their generous support Gary Gait, Ryan Powell, Casey Powell and Mike Powell. Thank you!

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6:00 pm Social/Cocktail Hour Silent Auction7:00 pm Dinner Served

WELCOME AND INTRODUCTION

7:30 pm Opening Remarks Chapter Introduction7:45 pm Introduction to the Doug Foster Foundation and

Scholarship presented by Damian Reardon, Heather McAfee, Cooper Morrow and Dougs sisters:Kim FosterJennifer StearnsAmy Wittman

8:00 pm HOF Introduction

INDUCTION: CLASS OF 2015

8:15 pm Juliet BakerCarol HartleyDon HuberJoe KerwinJim KotchikTucker PiersonBill RexfordC. Kent RobertsDale Waagmeester, Joanne Hauseman and Mark Sleasman (voted in as a group)Fred WoodErin Wright

10:30 pm Closing Remarks

HALL OF FAME INDUCTION AND DINNER SCHEDULE

A Tribute to Douglas Wayland Foster Scholar and Athlete Doug was born on May 17, 1968 in Cleveland, OH and grew up in Poland, OH. He graduated from Poland Seminary High School in 1986, where he was a member of the schools cross-country and track teams. He matriculated to The University of West Virginia in the fall of that year. It is here that Doug was introduced to the sport of Lacrosse. Doug played lacrosse for the four years he attended UWV and graduated with his BA in International Studies in 1990.

Upon graduation from college, Doug moved to the Washington, DC area. He joined the AOL Lacrosse Club of Arlington, VA and coached high school lacrosse in Fairfax, VA. While living, working and playing the game he loved, he found time to attend the University of Delaware and earned his Masters in Geography.

In 2000, Doug moved across the county to Portland, OR. Doug used his degree in geogra-phy and love of lacrosse to make a life for himself. He connected with the Portland lacrosse community right away and joined the Portland Brewing Mens Lacrosse Club and used his degree to find work teaching geography at many local community colleges.

Doug was quick to realize that Portland was lacking off-season opportunities to play lacrosse, and in 2001, he founded and was the owner/president of Lacrosse Northwest. He owned and operated LaxNW until 2008. In 2002, Doug became the inaugural head coach as Wilson High School entered the arena of Oregon high school club lacrosse. He was the coach for the next five years.

Introduction to the Doug Foster Foundation and Scholarship

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2010 was a big year for Doug; he became a referee and started his PhD program at the University of Oregon.

During his life of lacrosse, Doug played with University of West Virginia, AOL Lacrosse Club, Arlington Lacrosse Club, Portland Lacrosse Club, BCLF Princeton Lacrosse Club, Rose City Lacrosse Club and many, many winter and spring lacrosse teams through LaxNW. He played in various lacrosse tournaments: Vail, Lake Placid, PNLA at Delta Park, Legends of the Fall, and The Bend Bender.

Doug coached high school lacrosse in Virginia and at Wilson High School, and he was an avid supporter of Xcelerate Lacrosse Camps where he was a coach from 2003 to 2010. Doug was quick to become the lacrosse ambassador in Oregon for which he will always be known. He is directly responsible for bringing the game to corners of Oregon.

Doug Foster died on July 4, 2015 having been awarded his PhD that June. Doug will long be remembered for his contributions to the growth of lacrosse in the state of Oregon and for the passion with which he coached, reffed, and played. v (Special thanks to Damian Reardon, Heather McAfee, and Cooper Morrow for content, photos and presentation.)

Juliet Baker was born and raised in Maryland where Lacrosse is the official state sport. Having 13 playing seasons under her belt, she headed to Eugene, Oregon, to pursue a graduate degree in Athletic Training.

While a grad student, she served as Coach/Player for OUs young lacrosse club team, earning Most Valuable

Player. Her former opponents became teammates when she moved to Stumptown to join the club team Portland

Purple in 1999. As a player, she earned a spot on the North-west Regional Team three times, which traveled for the annual US Lacrosse National Tournament.

Baker also began to take a leadership role in the rapidly growing Portland girls lacrosse community. Her posts included Secretary for the Oregon Girls Lacrosse Association (OGLA), the assigner for the then Officials Board of the OGLA, and three-time coach of the OGLA All-Stars. It was during this period that Baker took over the program at St. Marys Academy for two seasons.

Additional opportunities presented themselves for Baker, including co-directing the Nike Girls Lacrosse Camp at Lewis & Clark College and leading an Instructional Coaching Clinic put on by Lacrosse Northwest. She also served as inaugural instructor for Portland Community Colleges lacrosse class for two terms.

In the Fall of 2005, she was approached about running for the OWLUA Board position of Development Coordinator. She had returned to the area after spending three years in Boston. Despite the gap since her 1999 inaugural officiating season, Ref Baker rejoined the ranks in 2006 and earned her District rating in 2007.

As a board member, she has been involved with organizing classroom and field trainings, conducting ratings, and developing educational materials. Additional titles have included Head Trainer, State Rules Interpreter, and Ratings Chair. OWLUA honored her with the Carol Hartley Service Award. She has kept busy holding a heavy NCAA D3 schedule since 2008, on top of a robust high school schedule, allowing minimal time for other levels. Honored to work the OGLA state final game for several years, she has been invited to officiate at the Idaho state tournament for two years running.

The year 2013 was a record year for Bakers officiating as she had NCAA D1 game assignments, was a USL Clinician for the Cascade Cup (Snohomish, WA), attended the National Clinic in VA Beach, and officiated a D3 Playoff game at Adrian College in Michigan. A highlight of her officiating to date was reffing a D3 playoff game last Mothers Day at the Catholic University of American with her mom in the stands.

Baker has demonstrated further commitment to the game she loves by serving on the USLs Womens Officials Sub-Committee (since 2010), and as a new addition on the Officials Education/Training Committee. This involvement has resulted in being a presenter twice at the 2015 USL Convention.

Shes honored and proud that her adopted state welcomed her with open arms into their lacrosse community where she has been able to thrive, grow, learn, and pass on her love for the sport.

Juliet Baker

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Carol HartleyFirst introduced to womens lacrosse her junior year of college in 1983, Carol Hartley was a founding member of the Western Washington University Womens Lacrosse Club Team. She continued learning the sport thanks to many Seattle Womens Club teammates who played collegiately on the east

coast. There were no umpires in the region. We volunteered to officiate our own games and taught

ourselves, Hartley explained.

Returning to Oregon in 1990, Carol found herself still captivated with the game. Though her playing career ended, the passion for the game was still there. Before she knew it, Carol was the unofficial chair for womens lacrosse umpires in the northwest, assigning, enlisting players and hosting clinicians from outside the region. Through Hartleys leadership, the tournament site of PNLA in Portland was used for the first official USWLA ratings of Oregon and Washington umpires.

For an Oregon umpire in pursuit of improving her skills, the opportunities were scarce. She attended USWLA conferences, traveled outside the region, many times to Southern California, to gain game experience, receive feedback and learn more about organizing umpires from her first mentor Dot Harrop.

The first Oregon girls high school teams were formed in 1995-1999 . I was on the board before there was a board! She acted as the informal local board chair, umpire treasurer, clinician, assignor, field liner and rules interpreter assuming many roles in support of the game and local interest.

In 2002, Oregon Womens Lacrosse Umpires Association (OWLUA) was established by Dorothy Hirsch and OWLUA started the annual Carol Hartley Service Award. Carol was recognized by her peers as the first recipient for this award. She remained on the OWLUA board until 2005, while still acting as the umpire ratings chair for the northwest. Since that time, Carol has served on youth lacrosse committees; provided consultation, recruited, trained and mentored many Oregon umpires.

Through her work Carol created the Lake Oswego Parks & Recreation Girls Youth Lacrosse Festival in 2004. This annual Festival has given youth teams a chance to celebrate the sport. Thousands of girls have participated over the past twelve years allowing OWLUA adult and junior umpires a chance to team up on the field together.

Hartley has held a US Lacrosse District Level rating since 2003. She has worked nineteen of the twenty-one Oregon Girls High School State Championship games. Along with countless western region tournaments, she has umpired two Washington and Idaho H.S. State Championship games respectively and has relished the challenge of umpiring NCAA Division III games. Unique highlights in her umpiring career have included traveling to England twice to umpire the U-19 National Schools Championships.

Growing up in Silverton, Oregon with three older brothers, Carol is proud of her roots in the Mid-Willamette Valley. She lives in Portland, with her partner of 23 years, Mo Callahan. Her career in Parks & Recreation has spanned 30+ years. Outside of lacrosse, she enjoys participating in sprint triathlons and hopes to get back to playing golf once her lacrosse umpiring shift ends.

Don HuberI was raised in the San Francisco bay area and have two siblings. In 1973 I moved to San Luis Obispo, California to attend Cal Poly were I was studying landscape technology. After attending Cal Poly for four years I meet my lovely wife Elizabeth and we were married in 1978.

In 1979 we moved to Portland and started a family. I have two daughters and three sons.

In the year 2000 my lacrosse career started. My middle son came home from high school and asked if he could join a lacrosse team.

At this point I asked him what was lacrosse and how do they play it. He popped in a VCR tape and here were a bunch of sixteen year old kids hitting each other with sticks. I turned to him and said Robert I can definitely see you playing this game. So I gave him my blessing and sent him on his way.

Two weeks later he came home from school and said that each team has to bring in two parents to be officials or they could not bring in a team. So as most parents my goal was to see that my kids were happy so I signed up to become an official. Six hours of class time training with Mr. Fred Zensen and I was out on the field the next weekend. The first complete lacrosse game I ever saw I officiated. Poor Kids.

It has been fifteen years since those days as a rookie official and I have since fallen in love with the game of lacrosse. Below are some of the milestones I have had the pleasure to complete:

Officiated three OHSLA championship games Eddie Travers Award winner Metro Division game assigner Portland Metro area officials trainer since 2006 Completed 500 high school games in 2015 season PNCLL college official since 2005 Officiated two PNCLL championship games

Founding Board member of the Oregon Lacrosse Officials Association 2005President of Oregon Lacrosse Officials Association since 2007 to the presentBoard member for the Oregon High School Lacrosse Association (OHSLA)Board member Oregon Chapter of US Lacrosse

District 11 (Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Montana, and Alaska) Training Coordinator for US Lacrosse

US Lacrosse Mens Officials Game Committee Member

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Joe first got involved with lacrosse in Oregon while at grad school at the University of Oregon. Joe joined the Ducks as an assistant coach in the fall of 2003. In his first three years with Oregon, the Ducks recorded a 36-14 record, won their first two PNCLL conference championships and made two appearances at the

MCLA national tournament.

In 2006, Joe took over the role of head coach and led the team to a 36-9 record in two seasons which also included two

more PNCLL championships and an appearance in the MCLA national tournament finals.

In 2008, Joe was hired as the head coach at Notre Dame de Namur University in California where he spent two seasons and led the program to a 16-6 record. In 2010, Joe moved back to Eugene and again led the Ducks for three more years. They amassed a 37-16 record and won three more PNCLL championships. During the eight years Joe coached with the Ducks, the team compiled a record of 109-39, won 7 PNCLL Championships, and finished ranked in the MCLA top 10 five times. In 2007, Joe was named MCLA National Coach of the Year and was twice named PNCLL Coach of the Year.

In 2012, Joe moved to Bend and was hired as the head coach at Bend High School. In his first three seasons with the Lava Bears, the team has recorded a 43-12 record and has finished all three years ranked in the top 15 in the state. In 2015, Joe was named the Oregon High School Co-Coach of the Year and has twice been named the High Desert League Coach of the Year.

Joe has also been active with youth lacrosse in Oregon. In 2005, Joe co-founded Emerald Valley Youth Lacrosse in Eugene. The program started with 60 kids and is still building today in the Eugene/Springfield area. After moving back to Eugene in 2010, Joe revamped the program and founded the Willamette Valley Youth Lacrosse League to include teams from Roseburg, Corvallis, and Salem.

Since moving to Bend, Joe has been active with the Bend Bombers youth program and spearheaded the Bend and Summit youth programs to expand youth team opportunities. He also started Five Peaks Lacrosse to offer off-season training and playing opportunities. This fall Joe has organized the first box lacrosse tournament in Oregon for youth players.

In addition to coaching, Joe has served as Vice President of the PNCLL and a member of the MCLA Tournament Selection Committee. He was the tournament director for the PNCLL tournament in 2004 and 2007, the Five Peaks College Fall Shootout in 2014 and 2015, and the Legends of the Fall mens tournament in 2015.

Joe started playing lacrosse at Chatham High School in New Jersey before moving on to Roger Williams University in Rhode Island. Joe has been playing for mens club teams since college and is still an active player today.

Joe Kerwin

Jim Kotchik is recognized for his many contributions to the establishment and growth of lacrosse in Oregon, spanning five decades.

He was a founding member of the Portland Lacrosse Club in 1968 and later served as

a co-founder of the Pacific Northwest Lacrosse Association (1973).

While he played attack and midfield from 1968-1975 and co-captained those early club teams, his most significant contributions were in the area of organization. He was the first President and General Manager of PLC, serving in that capacity until retiring from active play.

Major contributions included recruiting players, collecting dues and paying expenses, scheduling venues and officials, laying out and lin-ing fields, establishing vendor relationships with East Coast lacrosse suppliers to buy equipment, designing and purchasing first PLC uniforms, arranging hospitality for visiting teams, and publishing press releases to promote the sport of lacrosse.

In the 1980s and 1990s, he volunteered as a minor official for games played by University of Oregon and PLC. He also served as Team Manager of the Jammin Salmon All-Star team in the Vail Lacrosse Shootout (1987) and as Coach of PLC for the 1992 season.

His lastest contribution, in 2002, involved preparing and presenting a proposal to bring a National Lacrosse League team to Portland. While that proposal was not successful, due diligence and contacts made during this effort materialized three years later when the NLL awarded an expansion franchise to Portland and the LumberJax began play in the Rose Garden arena.

Jim Kotchik

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Tucker learned to play lacrosse when she was in middle school at Tower Hill School in Delaware. Her father was one of her lacrosse coaches in high school and was integral in her formation first as a player and then as a teacher and coach.

After playing field hockey, basketball, and lacrosse through high school, she focused on field hockey and

lacrosse at Hamilton College in upstate New York before moving to Oregon in 1999. Tucker joined the Portland

Womens Lacrosse team and played for 4 seasons and also officiated high school girls lacrosse in the Potato Fields for a summer.

Tucker co-founded the Lincoln Girls Lacrosse team with fellow Tower Hill alumna Ann Witsil and her daughter, Ali Draudt in 2000-01. At its height, the Lincoln program made the State Finals in 2004 and 2005 and Tucker saw some of her players go on to play lacrosse at colleges such as Bowdoin, Franklin & Marshall, Colorado College, Occidental, Pitzer, and more. She coached at Lincoln through the 2008 season.

Tucker joined the Oregon Girls Lacrosse Association Board of Directors in 2007, serving until 2013. She was the OGLA Board President from 2010-2012. Highlights of her term at the helm include helping to defend the Board in a lawsuit, which resulted in more stable liability coverage for players, coaches, and volunteer board members; and incorporating OGLA, securing nonprofit status for the organization.

Tucker also served on the All-American Committee for Oregon from 2008-2010 and coached the Northwest Regional Team in 2007 and 2008, taking Oregon and Washingtons best players to the Womens Division National Tournament. From 2010-2014, she was also a head coach for Lacrosse Northwests High School Summer League program and played alongside her former players in Lacrosse Northwests adult summer league.

Tucker took over the program at Oregon Episcopal School in 2008, working with longtime OES Athletic Director and lacrosse pioneer Kris VanHatcher. Over the next 7 years, the OES girls lacrosse team rose to be Portland League Champions four years in a row (2012-2015) and State Semi Finalists in 2014 and 2015.

In 2012 and 2013, Tucker was voted a Portland League Coach of the Year, and her athletes continue to play lacrosse in colleges across the country. Tucker has always helped coach youth teams: OESs inaugural 5th/6th grade team in 2009 (while also the head varsity coach); summer camps for 3rd-10th grade girls; and her daughters 3rd /4th grade Wilson team.

Tucker has just been hired as the head varsity girls lacrosse coach at Champlain Valley Union High School in Vermont.

Some of Tuckers proudest moments have been the grace with which her players have shown in losing big games; standing alongside her dad in a muddy preseason Lincoln practice at Delta Park; a 2004 victory over a dominant Lakeridge, days before going into labor with her first child; watching 5 former players compete in an 2013 Occidental College vs. Pomona-Pitzer College womens lacrosse game; meeting the babies of former players; and most recently, watching two former players compete in Division I Ivy League rugby and soccer at Dartmouth.

Tucker Pierson

In 1993, Bill and Mark Flood started the first boys teams in the state of Oregon and coached Glencoe High School to a state championship in just his third year.

In 1997, Bill started another program at Century high school and coached them to

state playoffs in their second year.

From 1999-2002 he took over the head coaching job at Rye Country Day School. During this time, he was named Fairchester Coach of the Year by his peers. In 2002 Bill moved back out west to be the head lacrosse coach at The Thacher School and became the Southern California area representative for US Lacrosse. From 2004 2014 Bill started high school lacrosse in Central Oregon and was the head lacrosse coach at Sisters High School. Throughout this period Bill oversaw a k-12 program with 200+ participants while capturing 100+ wins.

In addition to coaching and running lacrosse lacrosse programs, he implemented a drug testing program for high school athletes.

Sisters Annual Lacrosse Invitational (SALI) was started with 4 teams in 2005 and in 2014, his last year as tournament director, had 93 teams in attendance. In 2014, Bill earned US Lacrosse Oregon Man of the Year award for the positive impact he had on countless athletes through the state of Oregon. In addition to this award, Bill was also honored with two additional accolades, the Spirit of Sport Award and the Coach of the Year for the High Desert Lacrosse League. Bill now resides in Danbury, CT and heads up the Wooster School boys lacrosse program. When Bill is not coaching he is often found on the field at mens league games and tournaments playing the sport he loves, lacrosse!

Bill Rexford

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Despite plans to play on the tennis team, I was told during football season my first year of high school in Virginia that I would be playing lacrosse in the spring. The football line coach was also the head lacrosse coach. He pretty much made all of his lineman and linebackers

play lacrosse to keep them in shape and toughen them up. Much of the physical lacrosse play we

were taught is illegal today, with good reason. I still have my woodie defense and midfield sticks.

I played college lacrosse at Vanderbilt. It was a school non-scholarship team, the equivalent of D3 today. I started on defense my freshman and sophomore years, but ran out of money and transferred junior year to North Carolina where I had to work part time jobs with no time to play.

On arrival in Portland for law school, it took me only a couple months to figure I wanted friends who were not law students. I learned through the Parks Dept. there was a lacrosse club Portland Lacrosse. I played midfield and defense through law school and into the 1980s with assorted miscreants like Paul Schlesinger, Curt Sheinin, Mark Flood and Kris Van Hatcher.

I started reffing college and club games in 1984 while still playing, and went to full time reffing in 1989. I was one of the original 4 referees who worked high school games in the 1993 inaugural OHSLA season, foregoing fees that year so the money could be used to help other programs start. Ive reffed games and tournaments throughout the Pacific Northwest as well as California, Hawaii, New Mexico, Colorado and North Carolina. Im lucky to still find the work challenging, enjoyable, and a good way to give back to the game.

My greatest satisfaction from lacrosse came from coaching girls with my wife Sara for 3 years at West Sylvan MS. There were no girls youth teams in Oregon when my daughter Sally started middle school. She had been a regular on the sidelines at games I refereed, and had been playing with a stick since she was about four. She really wanted to play, so we told her if she recruited enough friends for a team, we would coach. That first year in 2002, we had 26 players. With no one locally to play, we held intrasquad games and traveled to Seattle for a tournament.

The word must have gotten out how much fun it was because the next year, there were nine more middle school girls teams started in the Portland area. One of our players put together a nomination to U.S. Lacrosse that resulted in my being selected as the Girls Youth Coach of the Year at the U. S. Lacrosse national convention in 2003. It was a great honor, owed entirely to my wife Sara for her support and daughter Sally for her inspiration.

C. Kent Roberts

Dales first exposure to lacrosse was in the late 1960s when many of the Portland Buckaroo hockey team played on the new Portland Adanacs Box Lacrosse team.

The team was lead by Jack Bionda, considered one of the finest players in the game. Bionda invited Port-

lands youth hockey players to the Silver Skate Ice Arena parking lot to learn lacrosse basics. After Dales

father watched kids chasing loose balls for an hour, he invited Jack to hold these practices in the familys indoor

horseback riding arena, which was completely enclosed. As a side note; Jack Bionda was terrified of horses...

Dales next lacrosse experience was in college where he played on his fraternitys lacrosse team, although that bunch preferred drinking beer to playing lacrosse.

When Dales son, Garrett, was growing up, the two of them would play catch with Dales old all wood sticks. Garrett was a natural, catching and throwing both left and right handed from an early age. He jumped at the chance to play high school lacrosse at Sunset.

Dale was elected President of Sunset Lacrosse where he and the Parent Board changed the culture and built the program into a legitimate playoff contender. They added girls lacrosse in 2002.

Dale and the Sunset Lacrosse Board were instrumental in getting lacrosse accepted as a Tier 2 sport in the Beaverton School District, which gave lacrosse access to fields and allowed the players to earn letters. When Dale was asked to take over for Jim Hammon as the OHSLA Commissioner, he was joined by Joanne Hauseman as Secretary and Joe Westling as Assistant Commissioner. Mark Sleasman joined as Treasurer a year or so later.

When the new OHSLA Board took over, the league was broke. Many of the officials had not been paid from the year before. It didnt take long for the new Board to figure that dues were going to have to be raised. When I told the coaches at that first meeting that the league was going to have to raise dues significantly, I thought that I was going to be fired before I even got started, said Waagmeester. They were none too happy but it needed to be done in order to make the league solvent.

In an effort to limit liability, ALL games, Varsity, JV, and freshman were required to utilize certified officials. Adds Dale, We have been short on officials ever since!

Dale is particularly proud of how lacrosse was accepted by many high schools during his tenure. Lacrosse was kind of the bastard child of the high school sports scene as far as many ADs were concerned Waagmeester recalls. But by close adherence to OSAA rules along with steady supervision, lacrosse slowly gained acceptance by most school administrators. When the new Board took the reins, there were 25 or so teams in the league. When they retired there were over 50. Also, the once empty treasury was extremely healthy with a cash surplus.

It was a lot of work, remembers Waagmeester, but it was worth it. I will always be proud of what our little group of Board Members accomplished.

Dale Waagmeester

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From teaching elementary school and over-seeing childrens ministry to filling a critical need for the Oregon High School Lacrosse Association, working with and for kids is a recurrent theme in Joanne Hausemans life.

Born in 1949 and raised in Oregon City as the youngest of four, family has always been central.

Joanne remembers spending summers playing in the neighborhood being watched out for by her own parents

and neighborhood parents. A 1967 graduate of Oregon City High School and 1971 graduate of Portland State University, Joanne substituted before being hired at Redland Elementary School in 1973. She was among 10 new hires that year, and was one of four from that group to retire in 2003 after teaching 30 years in the same building. She started as a second-grade teacher, but fell in love with the awe and wonder of first-graders, spending most of her career introducing youngsters to the world of school and learning.

Perfect attendance as a youngster in Sunday school and helping her sister with her kindergarten class led to Joannes increased involvement in the ed-ucation of the next generation at church, too. She served as a teacher and, ultimately, director of childrens ministry, recruiting and inspiring others to form the connections with young people that are such an important part of her life.

Joannes volunteerism with lacrosse began after her marriage to Joe, whose son, Zach, played the sport. She served as the OHSLA secretary during the associations growth spurt. What started out as four teams (about 27 teams when Joanne started) grew to more than 50, with boys and countless junior varsity teams. She logged game scores on the website, cancelled games and officials when needed, entered new teams into the database, publicized activities, assisted the host team for the state tournament along with ticketing and programs, stayed in touch with coaches, helped with the website and assisted commissioners Jim Hammon and Dale Waagmeester in whatever way she could.

During her time with the OHSLA, Joanne helped the volunteer organization establish procedures, budgets and guidelines, and formalized its status as a nonprofit. The commitment meant at least 60 hours a week during the height of the season. Joannes goal was and is for lacrosse to become part of the OSAAthe governing body for the states high school activities and sports.

Joanne now serves as coffee hostess at the Elsie Stuhr Center on Monday mornings, spoiling the grateful seniors with home-baked cookies and goodies. She spends time in the centers fitness room, enjoys taking walks, gardening, fix-ing up her house and gathering with her spiritual formation group. She also vol-unteers two or three times a month at the new start-up library in Aloha, reading stories to kids and their families, and continues to tutor students.

Joanne Hauseman

Never saw the game before...

Our twelve year old son wanted to play. We watched him play his first pickup game and we said to ourselves, hes running while he is carrying the ball, doesnt he have to dribble or

something? Others ran with the ball as well. No whistle, game continued.

My wife Lisa and I started our lacrosse experience by watching Davids games from the sidelines of Beaverton Youth Lacrosse. As a CPA working with tax-exempt organizations I prepared BYLs application for tax-exempt charitable status and assisted with their annual tax-exempt filings until they were no longer required. Later I completed the tax-exempt application process for Sunset Lacrosse and prepared their annual tax-exempt filings for a while.

David moved on to Sunset High School. Our son had a passion. Coach Bennett advised him if you want to play in college you are going to need good grades, school work is as important as lacrosse practice, perform well at both. Davids schoolwork took on a new dimension. Among others; Dale Waagmeester, Joanne Hauseman, Lisa and I were all involved in team administration. The team to support the team was large with many volunteers.

Dale asked me for an assist when he took on the President role of the OHSLA Board of Directors. Joanne as board secretary handled a multitude of tasks, of which the most important to the billing process was communications. The three of us developed a team billing and a referee payment system.

As board treasurer, I handled the cash flow and financial reporting to the board, with Lisa as my bookkeeping advisor. Dale, Joanne and I comprised the Executive Committee of the OHSLA Board of Directors for six or seven years.

Working with the OHSLA board, the coach representatives of the OHSLA Coaches Committee, and referee representatives of the Oregon Lacrosse Officials Association, all of whom and more helped our son reach his goals, was a pleasure as our team of three worked to forward the position of young mens high school lacrosse in the State of Oregon.

Mark Sleasman

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Fred started the lacrosse program at Bishop Dagwell Hall (now Oregon Episcopal School) in 1967. The school had soccer in the fall and basketball in the winter, but nothing in the spring.

Lacrosse was a natural to fill that void. Fred was a hockey player at Boston University

and was also familiar with lacrosse, so he added lacrosse coach to his duties as Headmaster.

In the summer of 1968, Fred and Bill Greger (lacrosse coach at Catlin Gable School, the only other lacrosse program in Oregon at that time) established a weekly open gathering of lacrosse players on the BDH field. That effort soon morphed into the Portland Lacrosse Club, with Fred as its first coach.

He was also one of the few lacrosse referees in the area and was often called upon to keep order on the field. Many of his former players went on to play lacrosse in college and on club teams in Oregon and beyond.

Fred passed away in Denver, Colorado, from cancer on March 11, 2012.

Fred Wood

Erin began playing lacrosse in college at Western Washington University when a friend started the team as part of an effort to increase the number of womens sports on campus. It was love at first sight and she became a fan for life. Trips to Western States and of course the

PNLA tournament at Delta Park to play, built a family of friends that remain now 20 years later.

It was more than the game that was the draw to lacrosse but the community that was built around it. In 2002, while shopping in Home Depot wearing a Crooked Arrow lacrosse shirt scored at PNLA one year, Erin was approached by a girl with PVC piping and bird netting who had noticed the shirt and asked if she could coach their girls lacrosse team at Glencoe. She agreed and would become the Glencoe Head Coach for the next five years with a great mentor and supporter, Paul Lardy who ran the Glencoe Boys Lacrosse program.

In 2004 she started a girls youth lacrosse team Hillsboro HipKatz to start building skills earlier and help the sport grow and become more competitive. Again, with great support and mentorship from Coach Lardy and Glen and Sharon Sullivan who ran the Glencoe Boys Youth lacrosse program, it took off. With some fantastic parents turned coaches, the girls youth lacrosse program continued to grow as did the competitive edge. Girls youth players funneled into Liberty, Glencoe, Century and Hillsboro high schools and with their advancing skills brought up the level of play. Having begun to partner with the Hillsboro Park and Recs department in 2004 to coach camps during the summer and bring even more kids into lacrosse, and after several years of working with a great team at Hillsboro Parks and Rec and Coach Lardy, Erin worked with them to take on administration of youth lacrosse in Hillsboro. HALO was born. It continues to grow every year. In her copious amounts of spare time Erin became a US Lacrosse CEP coach trainer and began to travel around the US on their behalf to teach and grow womens lacrosse coaches. Through the years she sat for terms on the girls youth board (OGYLA), boys youth board (OYLA), girls high school board (OGLA) and the USL Oregon Chapter board. She helped start a sideline manager and mentoring program for boys youth referees for HALO and she helped manage and assign girls youth referees for girls youth lacrosse.

Now, semi-retired from team coaching Erin continues working as a USL CEP Coach trainer at events around the nation. She sits on the USL Oregon Chapter board and loves to play in LaxNWs coed league when time and body aches permit not often enough.

Erin Wright

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