Phi-Lacrosse-ophy Podcast Ep. 10 - Jake Elliott

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