The Amazing Lacrosse Experience by Kasey M.

Imagine yourself smoothly sprinting down a turf field, cradling the ball, and gripping your lacrosse stick, since you are determined to not drop the ball.  You then make a pass to a friend who is wide open.   She caught it!  YES!  We are definitely going to win this! You think with excitement.  Just then, you hear WHOOSH!  Your head whips around and you get a glimpse of the ball, flying into the net and the goalie trying to save it and then. . .  SCORE!  Don’t you wish you could have that amazing and outstanding experience?  If you wish you could, lacrosse is the sport for you.  I take the position that lacrosse is the best sport for kids.  There are many reasons, but a few are that it’s popular, it’s easy to learn, and finally, it’s good for your health.

First, lacrosse is the best sport for kids because lacrosse is popular and gives you a hobby.  Most kids at my school play lacrosse as a spring sport and extremely enjoy it.  Lacrosse is guaranteed to give you something to do because you have around 2 practices a week and 1 or 2 games on the weekend.  You can also just do a clinic, once a week. You can even just have a lacrosse stick and a ball, and can just play lacrosse as a hobby and lacrosse will always give you something to do.  Once you are old enough, you will try out to be on a more advanced team, commonly the A team and if you don’t make it, you go to the B team.  According to en.wikipedia.org, lacrosse was originally played by the Native Americans before European exploration and is most popular in the north-east and mid-Atlantic areas in the U.S. This shows that lacrosse has been in the U.S. for a while and where it is most popular.  One time, my lacrosse team had a scrimmage against another town.  We have so many kids,  I thought.  How are we going to fit everyone in one game?  I asked my dad, and he said that since we had so many girls, he had the other town bring 2 teams instead of 1, and that we would split into 2 teams also.  I was happy that some of us would not have had to sit out of the game.  Also, lacrosse is popular because you can play it as a spring sport, you can play for your town, you can play for your school if they offer it, and you can play for a club team.  You can even play it as a spring sport and be on a club team!  You may be thinking that you have never watched lacrosse in your life. I’m saying that it is not necessarily popular that way, but as a sport for kids to play, it is definitely popular that way.

My next reason why lacrosse is the best sport for kids is that lacrosse is really easy to learn and understand the concepts of how to play.  You only have to learn how to catch, throw, shoot, and pick up ground balls.  Making complete passes may be hard at first, but you understand how to.  It is hard because you are probably passing correctly, but you don’t have as much control, and when you are catching, you don’t really know how to move and adjust so the ball goes into your stick.  Lacrosse is also easy to learn because you can practice at home no matter what.  You may want to get a rebounder so you can pass with yourself if you don’t have a sibling who also plays, but that is the only piece of equipment that you need, because even if you want to shoot on goal, you can use any kind of net to do so. Also, according to lacrossepack.com, kids are recommended to start lacrosse at the age 7. This shows that you can start learning at such an early age. Lacrosse is so simple to learn, that once, when I was in second grade, I asked my sister to teach me how to play lacrosse.  She taught me how to get a ground ball and pass. I was not making complete passes, but after a week or so, I understood how to, and I was an expert on ground balls.  Some people may be thinking, well, maybe you have a sibling but I don’t!  How am I going to learn to do stuff like ground balls?  Even though you may not have a sibling, you could do other stuff to learn how to, including stuff like youtube videos.  Also, if you start lacrosse at an early age, the coach will teach you how to.  You could even just play with a friend or a parent!  The set-up is also simple.  For younger girls lacrosse, the set-up is 8 players on a field at a time. There is one goalie, 2 attacks (offense), 3 middies, and 2 defenders, but you would need more like 20 girls on a team so you can sub people out.  This shows that you need a handful of kids just to play a game but it is so easy to learn that many kids sign-up.

My final reason lacrosse is the best sport for kids is that lacrosse is good for your health.  Lacrosse is so helpful to your health, because you get exercise and fresh air.  It is good for your health, because one time, I was sprinting down the field. I had just gotten the ball, and I was trying to run to the other side of the field so my team could score.  I passed to my friend and she took a shot at the goal.  I was really tired, and I took in gulps of fresh air, breathing heavily.  As I took a deep breath in, the fresh air filled my lungs.   According to cdc.gov, a kid should get 1 hour or more of exercise each day.  This is important because it shows that lacrosse is such a simple way to get all the exercise you need per day.  Some people may say, how is this guaranteed that I will get fresh air and exercise?  Lacrosse is guaranteed to give you fresh air and exercise because games are always at least an hour and practice  could be an hour, or an hour and a half.  The different types of exercise that lacrosse provides is you can run, and pass.  Playing lacrosse ensures that you will get the exercise that you need, maybe even a tiny bit more!  Lacrosse is also safe for both boys and girls to play.  Lacrosse is safe for girls, because you have to wear mouthguards, cleats, and goggles.  Cleats are worn so we don’t slip.  However, boys have to wear padding, helmets, mouthguards, cleats and goggles.  Boys have the extra equipment because they are allowed to check at an early age and eventually they are also allowed to body check which girls are never allowed to do.  Lacrosse is really safe for you to play and good for your health.

Once again, I think that lacrosse is the best sport for kids.  It is the best sport for kids because it’s popular, it’s easy to learn, and it is good for your health.  If you don’t already play lacrosse, you should go and ask your parents to learn and play lacrosse!