Lacrosse World Championships - Day Two

TEAM ADJUSTMENTS

So far Team Denmark consists of 20 players and 14 of those hold a Danish passport.
Out of the six guys without two are Americans. Eric Jorgensen from outside Washington DC, went to Mount Saint Mary's college in Maryland and Alex Gorman from Philladelphia. Gorman went to Guilford college in North Carolina.

The rest are Canadians. Dane Hansen, 17, attack and midi from Holy Cross secondary school in Ontario is the latest edition to the team. Holy Cross went 19-0 last year and lost the final this year in the Ontario province championship. Dave was brought on to the team by our attackman Dan Larsen, 33, from Toronto. Then ofcourse there are the two Canucks who live and work in Denmark; defenceman Dave Toeg, 27 and attackman Dan Christensen, 35.

We were supposed to have an English midi on the team as well, but he bailed on us a couple of days ago. Also we lost our American college player, Tony Vita from Princeton.

In the van on the way back from morning practice today, goalie Kristian Schweitzer aka Tiny (an American with a Danish passport) told coach Cone that his kid brother plays lacrosse in high school and also holds a Danish passport.

"Great, we got four open slots!" Cone replied and handed his cell phone to Tiny, who immidiatly called up his family. If all goes well we will have another player with us on Saturday.

"Any body else know anyone with a Danish passport?" Cone asked everyone in the ar. e didin't.

BTW... if you have a Danish passport and can handle a stick fairly well, go to London and find us! We don't have to turn in the final roster before the 13th.

Health is deteriorating rapidly, especially with those over 27 years. The team physician, Chris Curry, already has a steady clientele only two days into warm ups. He is taping up everything strained in sight before each training session.

Other than the two three hours practices, today offered more bonding. Whirlyball is an interesting mutation of lacrosse with a big future. You drive around in a bumper car, holding a tiny plastic head with a handle and attempt to pass a big red plastic ball and score by throwing it through a hole in a basketball back board. They also had Pac-Man. My team lost the Whirlyball mini-tournament, but at least I now hold  he high-score in Pac-Man with 40600 points.

Tomorrow will be an exciting day. We rise and moan at 6am, ready to practice at 6.30am. Afternoon practice is off because of our first scrimmage game against a local all-star team. From what we hear they are psyched to be playing the Danish National team. It will probably be a close match.