NZ School Lacrosse

This week Roar Lacrosse in Christchurch, New Zealand will be starting an 8 week youth lacrosse program at 2 Christchurch Intermediate Schools, Cobham Intermediate and Heaton Intermediate in Northwest Christchurch. The program will run at the schools to include students who have not been selected to participate in the usual Primary Sport Canterbury School sports programs run every Tuesday at Hagley Park.

Most schools in Canterbury are part of the Primary Sports Canterbury  and Secondary Sports Canterbury program which is a wonderful initiative and includes all kinds of sports events throughout the school year for all school students in Canterbury from Triathlon to Athletics, Cricket to Tennis, Squash to Softball, Rugby to Mountain Biking, Gymnastics to Volleyball. College Sport in Auckland runs a similar program including a Lacrosse league for girls. Unfortunately not all students are able to participate in these sports as many are well over subscribed.

Roar Lacrosse is offering schools programs to enable more students to participate and be active in Canterbury, and to have another choice for a team sport of which Heaton and Cobham have been involved with. The Roar have also been to Burnside HS, Cotswold Primary, CGHS and others around Christchurch so far and the enthusiasm is growing quickly.