summer clinic featuring Oregon Head Coach Jen Larsen and US national team

players Rachael Becker and Lauri Kenis.

What: Oregon Women's Lacrosse Summer Clinic

Who: All Oregon/Northwest HS girls lacrosse players welcome!!

When: Saturday, August 16, 2003, 9am-4pm

Where: University of Oregon, Eugene

Why: A great opportunity for Oregon's high school lacrosse athletes to

improve their skills and game knowledge with Oregon Head Coach Jen Larsen

and US national team players, among others.

Please bring your own lunch. Duck Shop will be open for drinks, snacks, etc.

COACHES. come on out and watch, participate, learn, and talk lacrosse.  No

fee, but please let us know if you're planning on coming!

Questions?... Contact the Oregon Women's Lacrosse program at

[email protected] or call 541-346-5492.

About the summer clinic staff.

Jen Larsen

Oregon Women's Lacrosse Head Coach

Jen arrives at Oregon after serving as an assistant coach at the University

of North Carolina since August 2000. Prior to that, she was an assistant

field hockey coach at Duke University for two years following two years at

Georgetown University coaching both field hockey and lacrosse. While at UNC,

Jen worked directly with the defensive unit and assisted head coach Jenny

Slingluff-Levy in all aspects of the program. The Tar Heels went to the NCAA

Tournament both years Jen was coaching, winning the ACC in 2002 en route to

an NCAA Final Four appearance. As a player at the University of Virginia

from 1993-96, Jen was a member of the 1993 NCAA championship team and helped

lead the Cavaliers to the 1994 NCAA Final Four and 1996 NCAA championship

game. Also a field hockey player for the Cavs, Jen led her team to the NCAA

quarterfinals in 1995 and earned second-team regional All-America honors in

1994 and 1995.

Lauri Kenis

US Elite Team 2003-2004

Lauri represented the University of Virginia as a two-time first team

All-American (2001, 2003) and made the IWLCA/US Lacrosse South All-Region

team this year after earning All-Conference honors and being named to the

NCAA All-Tournament team after Virginia reached the national championship

game. She led the Cavaliers this season with 66 ground balls and ranked

second in caused turnovers with 43, the sixth-highest single season mark in

school history. Her 107 career caused turnovers ranks third all-time at

Virginia.

Rachael Becker

US Developmental Team 2003-2004

Rachael was named the 2003 Tewaaraton Trophy recipient as lacrosse's most

outstanding athlete. She was also this year's Honda Award winner for

lacrosse and is a first-team All-America selection for the third year in a

row after leading Princeton University to a second straight national

championship, earning NCAA Tournament MVP honors. Becker ended the season

tied for the nation's lead in caused turnovers and finished her career as

Princeton's all-time leader in ground balls and interceptions. Captain of

both the lacrosse and field hockey teams, she started all 78 games of her

lacrosse career, played in five Final Fours, won seven Ivy League titles and

two national championships.

Chip Rogers

Chair of the US Lacrosse National Teams Squad Committee and Chair of the US

Lacrosse Publications Committee, there are few people more in the know about

women's lacrosse than Chip. He is also editor of The Draw, the Collegiate

Women's Lacrosse Yearbook, is the United States Women's Lacrosse Information

Director and serves as official statistician at NCAA championships for both

lacrosse and field hockey. In his spare time, Chip serves as sports

information director for the American Lacrosse Conference, is a member of

the US Lacrosse Board of Governors, coordinates IWLCA polls and the IWLCA

web page and occasionally goes to work as an assistant media relations

director at the University of Virginia.