Cary Bulldogs Program Information
Home Field - Cary Elementary School, 400 Kildaire Farm Road, Cary, NC 27511
Site Director - Ryan Cummings
Email: wryancummings@gmail.com
Rival Lacrosse Mission Statement
Rival Lacrosse, Fusion Lacrosse and all its’ affiliated programs have the mission to promote and honor the fun game of lacrosse among the youth of Durham County, Orange County, City of Cary and N. Raleigh North Carolina. Our staff will strive to enhance each player’s individual and team skills with a consistent emphasis on sportsmanship and fair play. Teaching life lessons beyond the playing field and recognizing the importance of all players and participation regardless of ability, talent or skill is our philosophy.
Program Summary
The Rival Lacrosse fall instructional program for boys and girls will stress the foundation of individual skill development and its’ progression into group and team play. The eight (8) week fall program will build upon the foundation of skills taught the previous week. Our staff will work to achieve mastery of each skill for each participant with the hope of culminating the fall with a successful understanding of individual and team concepts. Our fall program will lay the groundwork for our spring play league.
Players will be broken into groups based on current grade and experience level to ensure that every boy and girl is getting the proper instruction and advancing at the appropriate pace.
The program will start with individual instruction building to group play to full field scrimmage games. Each site will have a Site Director who will act as the expert instructor and demonstrator and he/she will manage his/her site staff to ensure all skills are reinforced during drill and scrimmage work.
New for 2008 program
Every session will contain scrimmage and games. We will teach a component of the game and play each session to reinforce how that skill fits into game play!
Program Location Information
Chapel Hill
Location: TBA
Dates: September 13, 2008 – November 1, 2008/ Saturday’s (November 8th as inclement weather make-up date)
Times: Boys 9:00-11:00am
Durham
Location: Durham Academy Middle School, 3116 Academy Road, Durham, NC 27707
Dates: September 13, 2008 – November 1, 2008/ Saturday’s (November 8th as inclement weather make-up date)
Times: Boys 9:00-11:00am
Girls 9:00-11:00am
Cary
Location: Cary Elementary, 400 Kildaire Farm Road, Cary, NC 27514
Dates: September 13, 2008 – November 1, 2008/ Saturday’s (November 8th as inclement weather make-up date)
Times: Boys 9:00-11:00am
Raleigh
Location: Ravenscroft School, 7409 Falls of Neuse Road, Raleigh, NC 27615
Dates: September 13, 2008 – November 1, 2008/ Saturday’s (November 8th as inclement weather make-up date)
Times: Boys 9:00-11:00am
Girls 9:00-11:00am
Site Director - Ryan Cummings, TSL Red Team Head Coach, Former Middle Creek HIgh School Head Coach
Ryan Cummings is a recent transplant to North Carolina from Syracuse, NY, where he served as assistant coach at Christian Brothers Academy from 2003-2005. After relocating to our area, he was the 2006 head coach of Middle Creek High School’s varsity and junior varsity lacrosse teams. Coach Cummings originally attended Johns Hopkins after graduating high school. He transferred to Syracuse University during the spring of 1995, where he was member of SU’s 1995 National Championship team. He graduated from Syracuse with a BA in Psychology in 1997. Cummings also had the experience of coaching at UNC-Chapel Hill in 1999 while pursuing his M.Ed in School Counseling.
He serves as the tenth grade counselor at Middle Creek High School in Apex, NC and resides in Morrisville.