Phi-Lacrosse-ophy Podcast Ep. 10 - Jake Elliott - a podcast by Jamie Munro

Jake Elliot

00:29 Background on Jake Elliot
-Voice of Jr. and Sr. A Thunder
-Voice of WLA
-Voice of Vancouver Stealth/ Lacrosse Club
-Called more lacrosse games than anyone
-Close to 3,000 games called

03:56 How does Jamie's son Colin (an American) find his way up to Coquitlam to play Box Lacrosse?
-Jamie played for Boston Blazers while coaching at Yale
-Started recruiting Canadians while coaching Denver
-Email from Matt Brown started a lot
-Started developing players like how Canadians play
-Colin went up to St. Katherines to play Pee Wee
-Went back West to play Intermediate at 17
-Culture, passion, love of the game around box lacrosse

10:17 Box Lacrosse and Field Lacrosse and their Differences
-Two different sports
-Different environment, rules, space, net size, etc.
-Box players playing field vs field players playing box
-Field is a 1v1 game
-Box has more 2 man, passing and feeding, and picking game
-Off ball game vs isolation game
-2 handedness vs playing with one dominant hand
-Future of the NLL with American born players
-Jamie's tryout with the Colorado Mammoth
-Garry Gait and the Victoria look back
-Gait brothers revolutionizing sticks

23:04 Lacrosse in Canada in August
-Minto Cup
-Story from one of the best games in Minto Cup history
-Goalie had open net shot at the end of regulation of game 5/5 and missed
-How the Minto Cup works
-Recap on last two Minto Cups
-Tehoka Nanticoke and Six Nations

29:55 Teams in the Minto Cup this year
-Calgary Mountaineers, Okotoks Raiders - 2 Alberta Teams
-Brampton Excelsiors
-Coquitlam Adanacs
-The road for each team to the Minto
-Coquitlam is the team to beat
-Rules with Alberta to be more competitive in the Minto Cup
-These teams paths in the last few years
-Jeff Teat as the Wayne Gretzky of Jr. A Lacrosse
-Starpower coming in the Minto this year

Where to watch the Minto Cup?
albertalacrossetv.com

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