Lobel Named Head Coach Of Danish Lacrosse Team
-from goboxers.com
FOREST GROVE – Pacific University Head Women’s Lacrosse Coach Wynne Lobel is taking advantage of the experience and will spend June as head coach with the Denmark National Women’s Lacrosse Team.
Lobel leaves this week for Copenhagen, where she will conduct a week of training with the team. The entire team leaves Denmark on June 16 for Prague, Czech Republic, to compete at the 2009 Women’s Lacrosse World Cup.
“This is a once in a lifetime event for me,” said Lobel. “This will be super cool because I will get work with people who are not from the United States and experience their culture. I also get to continue to spread the game lacrosse, which is why I am here.”
This will be the second time that Lobel has had the opportunity to work with lacrosse players in international competition. In 2004, she was an assistant coach for a select team of U.S. youth who played at the Prague Cup.
Both the Prague Cup and the Women’s Lacrosse World Cup will take place during the same time frame, which will make the Czech capitol the place to be for the sport. “Lacrosse is not an Olympic sport, so people aspire to play at the Lacrosse World Cup,” Lobel said. “This is their top competition. And with both the Prague Cup and the World Cup going on, it will be a pretty big event for lacrosse.”
Lobel’s coaching opportunity came through a mutual connection at her last coaching stop. Abby Burbank preceded Lobel as head coach at Plymouth State University in New Hampshire, and will assist Lobel with the Danish National Team. It was Burbank that recommended that Lobel be the head coach. Burbank currently works as the head women’s lacrosse coach at Skidmore College in New York.
“(Abby) is not able to be there for first days of training, so the federation was looking for a coach who could not only do the job, but also go with the flow,” Lobel said. “They needed someone who could not only conduct practices, but also stay with some of the women in Copenhagen.”
According to Lobel, approximately half of the team is comprised of college-aged athletes from around the Copenhagen area. The remainder of the roster is made up of ex-patriots from the United States and Canada.
A total of 16 countries will take part in the Women’s Lacrosse World Cup. Denmark will compete in Pool C, which includes Austria, Haudensaunee, Ireland, South Korea and the Netherlands.
For more on the Danish National Team, please visit the Danish Lacrosse Federation’s Web site at danishlacrosse.com. For more information on the Women’s Lacrosse World Cup, please visit lacrosseworldcup2009.com.
For more on Wynne Lobel, please see her bio at the Pacific Athletics Web Site.
Posted by Blake Timm ([email protected]) on Jun 2, 2009 at 10:36 AM
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