Raleigh Rage

Raleigh Rage Program Information
Home Field - Ravenscroft School, 7409 Falls of Neuse Road, Raleigh, NC 27615
Site Director - Sandy Kapatos
Email: skapatos@ravenscroft.org

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

North 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: Sandy Kapatos, Head Coach, Ravenscroft School
     Coach Kapatos comes to Ravenscroft with a very impressive resume. Kapatos began his coaching career at SUNY Cortland, as a defensive coordinator and goalkeeper coach, from 1980-81. The Red Dragons went to the NCAA Division II national championship game in both of those years. Kapatos earned a bachelor's degree in physical education at SUNY Cortland in 1981 during that time, as well.
     Following Cortland, Kapatos returned to Long Island to become the coach at Holy Trinity High School. He amassed a 24-12 record over three seasons, leading Trinity to consecutive NSCLL finals. Kapatos was subsequently named the head coach at MacArthur High School, in his native Levittown in 1989, where he compiled a three-year record of 24-12 and was named the Coach of the Year.
    As Head Coach at Adelphi University, Coach Kapatos compiled a record of 16-6 in NCAA tournament games, which included a 4-2 record in NCAA Division II championship games, and he tied for the most championships won in Division II. His four championship appearences (during a seven-year run from 1993-1999), ended with the Panthers winning back-to-back titles in 1998 and 1999.
     Kapatos, the fifth head coach in the Adelphi program history, has a career record of 102-43 (.703 winning percentage) over 12 seasons. He has developed 59 All-Americans, including national players of the year, Anthony Piccone (1998), Rob Grella (1996), and Gary Reh (1995).