Walpole Youth Lacrosse

Welcome to the new WYLL/WYGLL website.

We’re still building out the entire website, so you may find that some pages are not yet completed; we hope to have the entire website completed very soon. In the meantime, have a look around, you should be able to find everything you need under the “Site Map” splash on the left of your screen.

Also, if you look down the orange sidebar running along the left part of the page, you’ll find some useful information:

• Entries RSS Feed. The RSS feed is a useful tool for those of you who make regular use of RSS Readers such as Google, Yahoo, or even Yahoo widgets (my personal favorite). The RSS feed will be updated with the release of each WYLL/WGYL news item. RSS Feed desktop widget can be found here, http://widgets.yahoo.com/gallery/view.php?widget=42031
• Site Map. The Site Map lists all of the pages of our website to help you navigate and find information related to our lacrosse program.
• Filters. Each news item that we post on our site will be categorized to help you filter through information to find just those items that pertain to you. As an example, if you were interested in finding all the information related to the Fall/Winter League, you would simply click on the “Fall/Winter League” filter and we’ll present you with all of the items associated to that subject. It’s quick and painless.
• Register/Login. Nothing to see here, folks, move along. At this point, registration is not required for any part of the website, other than for the webmaster, board members, and coaches who are allowed to post news items on the website.
• Turco Field. Turco Field is open for business! However, the Friends of the Walpole Community Athletic Complex still need your help. Please donate to our home field.

Our new website, like many of the latest websites on the internet, has been optimized for the FireFox 3, Opera 9, and Internet Explorer 7+ browsers.

To all Walpole Boys Youth Lacrosse:

We hope everyone had a great summer and are starting to get into the swing of things as Fall is fast approaching. We at Walpole Boys Youth Lacrosse are meeting in 2 weeks to start to plan the 2008 season. But for now we are jump-starting our season with the annual Fall/Winter indoor program.

The cost this year is $150/player. This is by far the least expensive program out there and offers the player almost 16 hours of field time at Forekicks. That’s less then $10/hour. We will be offering this to all 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th and 8th graders as of Sept 2007. No 3rd graders.

The program will start on Thursdays in November and run every Thursday through Jan. 24th. We will not be playing on Thanksgiving or during the Holiday vacation week. We will be offering ½ – ¾ of an hour clinics followed by 1 hour games every week. We will have special guest appearances form the Cannons, Jason Andalo from Walpole High School and other special guests.

I want you all to know how lucky we are to have this preseason indoor program. We are the only lacrosse town that I know of in Massachusetts that offers this to their youth. Because of this and our great Spring program we have the strongest youth program in Massachusetts.

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