{"id":7588,"date":"2014-07-30T15:54:13","date_gmt":"2014-07-30T19:54:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/?p=7588"},"modified":"2014-08-06T05:14:02","modified_gmt":"2014-08-06T09:14:02","slug":"lady-redbirds-aim-to-put-local-lacrosse-on-the-map-with-aurora-first","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/lady-redbirds-aim-to-put-local-lacrosse-on-the-map-with-aurora-first\/","title":{"rendered":"Lady Redbirds aim to put local lacrosse on the map with Aurora first"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Jake Courtepatte<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Newmarket Lady Redbirds are looking to put Aurora and Newmarket on the map for Canada\u2019s national sport.<\/p>\n

Girls as young as seven are learning how to play lacrosse on Newmarket\u2019s under-11, under-13, and under-15 rep teams.<\/p>\n

Now in its second year, the program was born when Carey Fisher saw the interest in girl\u2019s field lacrosse in the United States while at one of her son\u2019s tournaments.<\/p>\n

Fisher is now the head coach of the U11 team, and the assistant for the U13 team.<\/p>\n

Still a very young organization, the Redbirds are taking on established Ontario programs from lacrosse towns like Oshawa and Orangeville. While these programs have the opportunity to draw from a pool of hundreds, the Redbirds organization has approximately 40 players in total.
\nHowever, the young Redbirds are taking to the game at a rapid pace.<\/p>\n

Fisher took the U13 Redbirds to the Provincial Championships last weekend, where the team brought home third place. The accomplishment made the Redbirds what Fisher calls \u201cthe talk of the tournament.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cYou very rarely get a second year doing that well, or even competing. We don\u2019t get to choose from the best of the best, we\u2019re just trying to turn anyone interested into a lacrosse player.\u201d<\/p>\n

Fisher said promoting the game to a young female audience is difficult for a travelling team.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe don\u2019t have a house league program,\u201d said Fisher. \u201cSo it\u2019s not like soccer where you\u2019re driving around your hometown and seeing girls playing.\u201d
\nLacrosse also often gets a bad rap as a violent, overly-physical sport. For parents, this often steers them to encourage their daughters into lighter sports like soccer.<\/p>\n

\u201cEverybody seems to associate lacrosse with boys,\u201d said Fisher. \u201cWhen some parents think of lacrosse, they just say \u2018I don\u2019t have any sons, so I\u2019m out\u2019. They associate it with being a rough and violent game, but it\u2019s not like that at all.\u201d<\/p>\n

However, Fisher says the Redbirds\u2019 parents are very understanding of the game and the team.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur parents all know that their kids are just learning, and not to expect certain things. And as a coaching staff, we really focus on that. We\u2019ve really had no negative experiences in that sense.\u201d<\/p>\n

As for generating interest in young girls, Fisher believes the future is bright.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf we can get through one more season, I think it looks really good,\u201d she said. \u201cIt\u2019s something that in five or six years we\u2019ll be quite strong. It\u2019s like any sport that you\u2019re trying to grow, it takes a few years to catch on.\u201d<\/p>\n

With what Fisher calls a \u201cstrong core of athletes\u201d that started the program, the Redbirds are looking to make a name for themselves in the lacrosse community \u2013 and most importantly, are having fun doing so.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey\u2019re all proud to wear their Redbirds clothing. They\u2019re telling their friends to play it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Fisher wishes to give credit to the volunteers that make the program possible, crediting them with providing the players with the best experience they can.<\/p>\n

At press time, the U11 Redbirds were due to host a doubleheader against Orillia on Wednesday night at St. Maximilian Kolbe CHS. The event marks a special moment for both the Redbirds and the community, as they will be the first girl\u2019s lacrosse games held in Aurora. <\/p>\n

For more information on the Redbirds, visit www.redbirdslacrosse.com.<\/p>\n\"Facebook\"<\/a>\"twitter\"<\/a>\"mail\"<\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Newmarket Lady Redbirds are looking to put Aurora and Newmarket on the map for Canada\u2019s national sport.<\/p>\n

Girls as young as seven are learning how to play lacrosse on Newmarket\u2019s under-11, under-13, and under-15 rep teams.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":7561,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7588","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-archive"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/2014-07-31-12.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3D2k4-1Yo","publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-04 13:46:28","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7588","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7588"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7588\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7561"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}