Girls 4th-8th grades

Here is your invitation and opportunity to play spring lacrosse with the Bandits. For this spring 2015, Bandits Lacrosse has put together another awesome program of two months of lacrosse during which you will sharpen your lacrosse skills, build confidence, and have fun playing in competitive games for the Bandits.  We will be putting together three teams for competitions (U15, U13, and U11*).  Registration is now open! We are expecting to fill up quickly, so sign up now to hold a spot.

Bandits commit 4 new awesome coaches!

“Our spring coaches are a special group–
they exemplify the character & values
we hope to instill into our young girls”

Bandits will compete in 8 games and a tournament!

The Bandits are considering expanding down to the 4^th grade level due to the success and abilities displayed by this younger group at our Winter Clinics. Coach says, “ These young ones are an eager and fun group of beginner lacrosse players. We’d love for them to become future Bandits.”

There is a new league the older Bandits are in that have 4^th/5^th grade U11 teams available for competition…. We would suggest a modified game scenario to help slowly acclimate the young players (4^th grade) to the competitive experience. We want to build on positive experience!

We’d like to invite your daughter to play with The Bandits Lacrosse program this spring where we will be fielding three teams.  As a result of our first year’s success, the Bandits have plenty of opportunities for competitions in the spring.  We are excited to be joining the North Shore Lacrosse Conference (NSLC) providing us the opportunity to play 6-8 games.

Over the past year, we have established ourselves as a highly respected community based youth lacrosse club. We appreciate our community’s faith and confidence in our ability to deliver an awesome lacrosse experience for our local girls. Our coaches and parents have been amazed at the overall development of the skills of our players in the Bandits program. This fall, our Bandits were trained by Coach “Cat” Catanzaro, Head Coach of the Lake Forest Girls’ Varsity Lacrosse Team, along with many of her varsity lacrosse players. Although our program primarily emphasizes effort, developing lacrosse skills, gaining confidence, and having fun—more so than our won/loss record—winning a large local tournament this fall was an exciting experience for our girls!

We hope you are as pleased and excited as we are with the direction of our program and we look forward to your participation and support.  This year we are opening an early registration and requesting a deposit in January so that we can have custom uniforms ordered in time for the spring season.  Please watch your email for Saturday winter clinics in January. Thank you again.

Happy Holidays & Kindest Regards,

John Lazzaretto & Kevin Robinson

• Loyola Academy host The Midwest Showcase Lacrosse Tournament
• On November 8-9 at their Glenview Sports Campus, Loyola Academy hosted their year end tourney.   The Bandits were well represented in this large Midwest Showcase. Several of our girls played for their respective Elite Travel teams and a number of our older Bandits were recruited to play for the host team’s Jr. High team.  They all did fantastic under some severe conditions…… cold weather and high winds. Congratulations Bandits!  Way to represent!

BANDITS ENTER A TEAM IN THE FALL ChiTown CLASSIC LACROSSE TOURNAMENT, SAT. OCTOBER 11, 2014

The Bandits put forth an amazing effort at last weeks Chi Town Classic.  Our Bandits won all three games they played in their division and as a result finished in first place.  Great job girls!  Your coaches and parents are very proud of you.  “What a great way to finish off our first fall program”, said Coach Cat.

CATHERINE CATANZARO, LAKE FOREST SCOUTS HEAD COACH OF GIRLS’ VARSITY TO COACH THE BANDITS FALL LACROSSE PROGRAM

The Bandits Lacrosse Club the local independent girls’ lacrosse club founded by John Lazzaretto and Kevin Robinson has finalizing arrangements to secure Catherine Catanzaro, Head Coach of the Lake Forest Scouts Varsity girls’ lacrosse team as the coach for our Bandits Fall 2014 Lacrosse Training Camp.

We would like to honor those members of our first year’s program by giving those players the first shot at securing a roster spot on our fall program.  We will be training one night per week for 9 weeks beginning in September in Lake Forest