We are convinced that young men and women who have been successful lacrosse players can become successful lacrosse coaches, but the two successes are independent, and one does not necessarily follow the other.

It is our finding that the actual "coaching" of the game, including running practice sessions and scrimmages, instructing individual and team skills, and so forth (the X's and O's) is only about one third or less of the burden resting on the shoulders of the successful coach.

In addition, the organizing and operating of the program is a large responsibility, as is the skills required to deal successfully with student athletes.

Therefore, our development efforts are sufficiently broad in scope to cover all three of these general areas. Further, we will happily channel inquiries by and for qualified coaches to match up coaching talent with coaching opportunities.

This chapter has conducted several previous development seminars and has an annual event California Lacrosse Convention. The co-chairpersons of this chapter committee are Jill Malko, Head Coach, UC Berkeley and David Lipscomb.