Utah Lacrosse Report

Good morning lacrosse fans. Thank you for taking time out of your day for the Utah Lax Report. Don’t forget to forward to a friend, it’s the best way for the newsletter to grow. Let’s get to it. Interview w/ Waterford Athletic Director Craig Morris c/o Ben Haslam Craig Morris is one of a handful of people in the lacrosse community who has seen the sport grown from a few teams in the mid 90’s to wh...

Good afternoon lax fans and thanks for spending time with the Utah Lax Report. This will be the last one for the year. I’ll be back in your inbox in the new year! On another quick note, the audio from last week was cut short. Please make sure to listen to the FULL interview with PJ Martin as well! Interview w/ Niki Harding c/o Westminster Athletics / ShootingStar Photography The latest podcast (av...

UPDATE: The previous audio file had been cut off early, my apologies. The new version is above. TH Good afternoon lax fans! Thank you for spending time with the Utah Lax Report. PJ Martin - Director of True Utah The latest podcast (available on  Apple Podcasts  and  Spotify  or listen above) features an interview with PJ Martin who is the state director for True Utah. Martin has a long list of acc...

Good afternoon lacrosse fans and welcome to the Utah Lax Report. Brighton Girls Head Coach Melissa Nash The latest podcast (available on  Apple Podcasts  and  Spotify  or listen above) features an interview with Brighton Girls Head Coach Melissa Nash. Nash hails from Salt Lake City an attended Highland while playing for Olympus. She went on to a great career at BYU and then was an assistant on the...

Good morning lacrosse fans! I hope you’re doing well and thanks for reading the Utah Lax Report. Westminster Head Coach Joe Kerwin Interview c/o ShootingStar Photography /Westminster College The latest podcast (available on Apple Podcasts and Spotify or listen above) features an interview with Westminster Head Coach Joe Kerwin. Kerwin and I talked about how he became involved in lacrosse and what...

Good afternoon lax fans! I hope your weekend was filled with lacrosse in some form or another and that you spent some quality time with your family. Let’s get to it! Aaron & Trae Ika Interview The latest podcast (available on  Apple Podcasts  and  Spotify  or listen above) features Corner Canyon Head Coach Aaron Ika and his son, standout attackman at Loomis Chaffee, Trae Ika. We talked about how t...

Good morning lax fans! I hope you’re doing well and staying safe. Let’s jump right into the action. UVU Head Coach Brian Barnhill My latest podcast (available on  Apple Podcasts  and  Spotify  or listen above) features Utah Valley Head Coach Brian Barnhill. I first met Barnhill at Alta when his son Mason was a close defenseman who then went on to Corner Canyon. I’ve always loved to talk to Barnhil...

Good afternoon lacrosse fans! I hope you’re doing well and thank you for reading the Utah Lax Report. We are now on Instagram! Go follow us there if IG is your thing. Interview w/ Danny Larkin My interview on the podcast this week is with Danny Larkin. Danny and his twin brother Ricky, played high school lacrosse at Olympus before playing at DeSales (NCAA D-III) in Pennsylvania. The twins then cam...

Good afternoon lacrosse fans! It was great to see live lacrosse on TV this weekend and I hope you had a chance to watch some of the MLL games. If you did, you likely saw Denver Outlaws defender and Utah native Garrett Michaeli on the field in the two Denver wins. I had a chance to talk to Michaeli last week for the podcast. You can subscribe to the podcast on  Apple Podcasts  and  Spotify or liste...

Good afternoon lax fans and thank you for spending some time reading the Utah Lax Report. I’m really excited about this podcast with Mason Goodhand. Goodhand has been part of the Utah lacrosse scene from the beginning and there are some great tidbits in this episode for any level of lacrosse fan. Please give it a listen! Just a reminder, you can subscribe to the podcast on  Apple Podcasts  and  Sp...

Good afternoon lacrosse fans. I hope that you’re doing well and staying safe. Thank you for spending some time reading the Utah Lax Report. Also, Happy Father’s Day to all the lax dads out there yelling ‘WHEELS!’ or ‘SIR!’ from the sidelines. Also, we are on Apple Podcasts and Spotify if you’re interested in listening to the podcast on those platforms. Adam Ghitelman Interview The bio for Ghitelma...

Good afternoon lacrosse fans! It’s great to witness live lacrosse once again. Despite being June, there is plenty of lacrosse to talk about, so let’s get to it! Kyle Hartzell Interview & Clinic Kyle Hartzell (Team USA/PLL Atlas) took some time out of his day to talk to me about a wide range of lacrosse topics. Give it a listen by clicking play above. Tomorrow, June 9, Hartzell is holding a lacross...

Good afternoon lacrosse fans! I hope you had a wonderful Memorial Day weekend and thank you for spending some time reading the Utah Lacrosse Report. I sure missed watching the NCAA Championships this weekend! I was telling my kids about the tradition of Memorial Day weekend (both in and out of the lacrosse community) and it made me reflect on watching my first NCAA Championship in the Spring of 20...

Good afternoon lacrosse fans and thank you for reading the Utah Lax Report. This is coming later in the day since I wanted to share some important information from Intermountain Lacrosse. Let’s get to it! Intermountain Lacrosse I spoke with IMLAX Boys Coordinator, Collin Madsen, about his role in the organization and about the possibility of playing this season. He shared some interesting insight...

Good morning lacrosse fans! I hope you are doing well and thank you for spending some time reading the Utah Lax Report. If you enjoy what you read, please forward to a friend! The podcast is a little different and I hope you enjoy it. Feel free to leave any comments below or respond to this email! News & Updates If you didn’t hear, the Premier Lacrosse League is going to have a tournament style ,...