Summer 2017-UPDATED
Our History: *Established in 1998. *Introduced Lacrosse through Winter Youth Clinics. *Began summer clinics for youth. *Develop the curriculum with start up of the UALA spring youth league. *Summer Fundamental-Teaching Camps for grades K-8th *Summer Travel Tournaments.
Our Goals: To teach UA boys how to play lacrosse the UA WAY. Develop players in the team concept with high level teaching. Providing a strong structure based on teaching the fundamentals and mechanics of the game of lacrosse. Emphasis on drill work to build and strengthen your stick work, team drills, and offense/defense concepts. Understand the balance of lacrosse and the culture/climate at Upper Arlington. Community based teams, coached by UA coaches,players & alumni, practicing in UA.
Three Bears Coaching Staff Ted Wolford-former UAHS Head Coach-25 yrs. (Additional 10-yrs. UAHS Assist, and 4-yrs M.S.Head Coach at JMS and HMS) Brett Diehl-Head Coach Jones M.S.-28yrs (Additional 2-yrs Head Freshman and JV Coach at UAHS Dan Hendrickson-Head Coach Hastings M.S.-30yrs Kyle Olson-New UAHS Head Coach *33-State H.S./M.S. Championships between the Three Bears
Coaching staff: State Certificated Coaches *John Carmichael-UAHS Head Freshman Coach *Pat Hurley-UAHS varsity assit coach *Ben Grindle-deGraff-UAHS varsity assist coach *Grant Devibiss-UAHS varsity assist coach *Ed Chung-UAHS varsity assist coach *Scott Lathrop-UAHS varsity assist coach *Joe Wallace-Jones M.S. 7th grade Head coach *Curtis Dumond-Hastings M.S 7th grade Head coach Plus special guest clinic speakers UA Alumni & Current Players *Jake Nolan-UA alumni, University Denver *Zach Shy-UA alumni, Wittenberg *Justin Wick-UA alumni, Ohio State *Brandon Jones-UA alumni, Air Force *Andrew Mikes-UA alumni, Ohio Wesleyan *Danny Logan-UA alumni, University Denver *Eli Hall-UA alumni,jones Assist coach *Maxwell Rankin-UA alumni *Alex Rankin-UA 2017 Captain *Peter Klamar-UA 2017 Captain, Denison *Jack Dolan-current UA player More players to be added in 2017
Summer Tournament Schedule 2025-4th Grade: *Detroit-Cranbrook Lax Jam-Saturday, June 3 *Hilliard-Ohio Festival-Saturday & Sunday, June 10-11 *Cincinnati-Lax-N-Nati Saturday & Sunday, June 17-18 (July tournament available if interest) 2024-5th grade: *Detroit-Cranbrook Lax Jam-Saturday, June 3 *Hilliard-Ohio Festival-Saturday & Sunday, June 10-11 *Cincinnati-Lax-N-Nati Saturday & Sunday, June 17-18-NEW/UPDATED (July tournament available if interest)
Summer Tournament Schedule 2023-6th grade: *Detroit-Cranbrook Lax Jam-Saturday, June 3 *Hilliard-Ohio Festival-Saturday & Sunday, June 10-11 *Cincinnati-Lax-N-Nati Saturday & Sunday, June 17-18 NEW/UPDATED (July tournament available if interest) 2022-7th grade: *Detroit-Cranbrook Lax Jam-Saturday & Sunday, June 3-4 *Hilliard-Ohio Festival-Saturday & Sunday, June 10-11 *Annapolis- Summer Exposure-Saturday & Sunday, June 17-18
Summer Tournament Schedule 2021-8th grade: *Detroit-Cranbrook Lax Jam-Saturday & Sunday, June 3-4 *Hilliard-Ohio Festival-Saturday & Sunday, June 10-11 *Vail-Tournament-Saturday-Wednesday, June 17-21 (Vail team will be a Select/Tryout team details coming)
Details for the Summer-2017 Practices: *3-4 practices per week leading up to weekend of your tournament. *All practices will be in UA either at Jones,Hastings or UAHS. *Our practices will held at night, most starting after 5:30pm (running 1.5 hour long)...full schedule TBA in April. Clinics: *Addition we will offer clinics in faceoffs, goalie play, shooting, position work and individual instruction. Uniforms: *Everyone will receive sublimated game shorts, shooting shirt and sublimated reversible jersey. Travel: *Details about each trip will be sent out later in 2017. Open Field: *In the month of July there will Open Turf for all players to work on their skills in pick up scrimmages. US Lacrosse: *All players must be members of US Lacrosse and provide us with their US Lacrosse number.
UALA/Three Bears Merge Currently we are working with Upper Arlington Lacrosse Association to Merge our two programs. All details about cost and registration will be available soon when both parties complete particulars. The goal is to have one family website, a go to, with all your lacrosse needs/wants/questions answered...kindergarten through 8th grade.
What do we do now? Email us your participate to play by Friday, September 30th. Tell us: *Players Name/Current Grade/Graduation Year/Date of Birth/School *Position interested in playing *Send to threebearslacrosse@gmail.com