

Phi-Lacrosse-ophy Podcast
Jamie Munro
World class lacrosse analysis and consulting for both players AND Coaches.
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Mar 28, 2019 • 1h 5min
Phi-Lacrosse-ophy Podcast Ep. 36 - President & CEO of US Lacrosse Steve Stenersen
Steve Stenersen - President and CEO of US Lacrosse
01:33 The Lacrosse Journey of Steve and Its Tie With US Lacrosse
-St. Pauls High School and an early start to the game
-Playing football and basketball
-The impact lacrosse had in life
-Journalism aspirations
-Working in the Lacrosse Foundation
07:27 80's-90's Growth of the Game and Transition from the Lacrosse Foundation
-Hand written index card records
-The first meeting in 1992 to unify an organization
-Creation of US Lacrosse in 1998
12:02 The Good the Bad and the Ugly
-Same challenges from 1992
-Participation is flattening
-Dive in youth sports
-Lacrosse's accessibility
-Threat to rec teams
19:22 The Use of the Sandlot
-Catering the rules and things to kids ages and ability
-Small sided versions of the games
-High burnout rates
-Projecting adult values on youth players
-Excitement for another sports seasons is dying
-Diluting the excitement of playing in games
-Playing pick up with Jamie's daughter
-Growing the sport because it is fun
32:10 The Rules and Changes
-Gaining momentum internationally
-Recognizing the FIL
-Positioning sport for 2028 Olympics in LA
-Building relations within the IOC
-Building relations with the Olympic host
-Squad sizes
40:50 Plans for Development National Teams
-Component of new strategy
-Spending on national teams
-Expanding opportunities for national team experiences
-Driving inspiration and aspiration in kids minds
-The structure of the younger national team systems
-Idea of 2 teams for boys and girls
-Developing this into box lacrosse
-Numbers vs Canada in player numbers
53:26 The Future of the Athlete Development Model US Lacrosse is Using
-Coming from soccer and hockey
-Investing into educational resources
-Different views of the experience
-Youth lacrosse should be re-imagined
-Greater traction of this concept
-Obtaining feedback with surveys
-Measuring meaningful touches

Mar 25, 2019 • 47min
Phi-Lacrosse-ophy Podcast In Season Edition With Andy Towers - Week 7
In Season with Andy Towers Week 7 of NCAA Season
00:30 Last Week In Review
03:43 Andy Towers Look at Mid Season Top 20
04:29 #20 UMass
05:36 #19 Lehigh
06:12 #18 Richmond
06:36 #17 Johns Hopkins
07:50 #16 Hobart
08:22 #15 Penn
09:18 #14 Notre Dame
10:37 #13 High Point
12:08 #12 Army
12:45 #11 Cornell
13:45 #10 Ohio State
14:37 #9 Loyola
14:57 #8 Denver
15:34 #7 Syracuse
16:15 #6 Towson
17:02 #5 Maryland
17:37 #4 Penn State
18:55 #3 Yale
19:24 #2 Virginia
20:05 #1 Duke
22:04 Johns Hopkins vs UVA
24:17 Notre Dame vs Ohio State
28:08 North Carolina vs Maryland
29:40 Denver vs Towson
32:27 AXIA Time Ivy League Review
-Flashback of Mike Waldvogel and the lessons learned from him
40:35 AXIA Time Ivy League Player of the Week
Jamie: Jack Starr - Yale
Andy: Tyler Dunn - Penn
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44:18 Next Weeks Games
Harvard vs Albany
-Virginia vs Richmond
-Highpoint vs Furman
-Syracuse vs Notre Dame
-Ohio State vs Rutgers
-Bucknell vs Army
-Princeton vs Brown
-Penn vs Yale
-Denver vs Georgetown
-North Carolina vs Duke
-Michigan vs Johns Hopkins
-Maryland vs Penn State

Mar 21, 2019 • 43min
Phi-Lacrosse-ophy Podcast In Season Edition with Andy Towers - Week 6
In Season with Andy Towers Week 6
00:30 Spring Break Lacrosse
01:56 Syracuse vs Rutgers
07:00 Duke vs Towson
12:13 UVA vs Notre Dame
16:63 Maryland vs Villanova and Navy vs Loyola
19:35 AXIA Time Ivy League Review
-Why these watches are so great!
-Flashback from Yale attackman Josh McHugh and the twister
-Playing Yale in Providence
-Yale vs Cornell
-Brown vs Harvard
-Penn vs Princeton
-Upcoming Penn vs Cornell game
36:37 AXIA Time Ivy League Player of the Week
Jamie: Matt Brandau - Yale
Andy: BJ Farrare - Penn
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39:34 Next Weeks Games
-Michigan vs Notre Dame
-Brown vs Holy Cross
-BU vs Harvard
-Army vs Colgate
-Navy vs Lehigh
-Georgetown vs Marquette
-Towson vs Denver
-UMass vs Brown
-Princeton vs Yale
-Cornell vs Penn
-Notre Dame vs Ohio State
-Bucknell vs Loyola
-Dartmouth vs Harvard
-Stoney brook vs UNBC
-Maryland vs North Carolina
-Hopkins vs Virginia
-Duke vs Syracuse

Mar 14, 2019 • 1h 5min
Phi-Lacrosse-ophy Podcast Ep. 35 - Former Pro Bowler NFL QB Matt Hasselbeck
Matt Hasselbeck - Analyst for ESPN NFL Sunday Countdown, 3x NFL QB Pro Bowler
01:44 How Matt Became a Lacrosse Fan
-Played a lot of other sports
-Little high school exposure
-His daughters choosing to play lacrosse
-Jamie and Matt's daughters playing together
-How they started playing box in Canada
06:10 How the Environment of Box Lacrosse Helped Girls Develop
-Physicality of it, and helped them finish
-Improvements in other sports
-Not admiring your pass
-The amount of fans
10:20 Matt Hasselbeck's Athletic Development
-Playing sports everyday as a kid
-Like playing pickup basketball
-Seeing other players perspectives
-Lacrosse players don't play as much pick up lacrosse
-Quarterbacks throwing to their strong arm side
-Patrick Mahomes and his athletic reference
19:23 How Important Deception Is
-Can be over used as a quarterback
-Training your eyes
25:07 Jerry Rice / Bobby Ingram Story and How it Relates to Dodging in Lacrosse
-Jerry Rice Running a Mile in Pads Before Practice
-"He can only go as fast as I decide to go"
-Finding the space when a receiver is open
-Best players see slower plays as set ups
31:06 Julian Edelman "Trip move"
-Would work in a certain coverage
-Explanation of the trip move
-Offense wins
-Make a receivers Von Miller Pass Rush Academy
34:40 Leadership Lessons Along The Way From Matt
-First time in a varsity huddle
-Body language and action
-Being in step with your coach and playbook
-Brett Farve's intangibles
-Fine line between being the light guy vs being serious
-Teams that are great have good leadership in the locker room
-Nutrition as a part of training
45:22 Attitude and Aptitude of Development
-Bill Walsh book
Same plays Chiefs are running now in the same book
-Trusting coaches is a key
-Putting your guard down and wanting to learn
49:35 How the Patriots Are so Successful
-Set rules like: "set the edge"
-Take away what you do best defensively
-Playing second best receiver with best corner and best received with 2 corners
-Mindset
-Player development
53:23 Player Development on the Patriots
-"Finding the Winning Edge" - Bill Walsh book
-Bigger stronger faster practice players
-Deleting options instead of being the best athlete
57:17 Leveraging Film
-"The eye in the sky don't lie"
-Challenge getting film
-Game film and practice film
59:54 Snake by Ken Stabler and Leading as a Vet
-Leader who kept things under control
-Backing up Andrew Luck
-Go meet the younger teammates out late at night
-Meeting guys where they were out
-Life happens outside of sports

Mar 11, 2019 • 1h 3min
Phi-Lacrosse-ophy Podcast In Season Edition with Andy Towers - Week 5
In Season with Andy Towers Week 5
00:57 Weekends Picks for Andy
03:52 Upcoming Matt Hasselback Podcast
04:39 Duke vs Loyola Thursday night
11:35 Pat Spencer Not Dodging with Speed
14:25 The Undefeated Ohio State Buckeyes
17:23 Colgate vs BU
20:13 Lehigh vs Army and the Patriot League
23:33 Syracuse vs Johns Hopkins
25:30 Notre Dame vs Denver
30:50 AXIA Time Ivy League Review
-Memory from 1990 going from 5 poles to 4 poles
-Brown vs Harvard Game in 1990 21-18 final score
36:09 Friday Night Cornell vs Penn State
39:25 Cornell vs Towson and face-offs story
41:37 Penn vs Villanova and St. Joes and Penn's weekend
44:02 Princeton vs Rutgers
49:18 Yale vs Michigan
49:54 Brown vs Virginia
57:10 AXIA Time Ivy League Player of the Week
Andy: Clarke Petterson - Cornell
Jamie: Sam Handley - Penn
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1:01:07 Next Weeks Games
-Carolina vs Bucknelle
-Rutgers vs Lehigh
-BU vs Bucknell
-Syracuse vs Rutgers
-Loyola vs Navy
-Denver vs Ohio State
-Duke vs Towson
-Cornell vs Yale
-Virginia vs Notre Dame
-Penn vs Princeton
-Brown vs Harvard

Mar 7, 2019 • 1h 9min
Phi-Lacrosse-ophy Podcast Ep. 34 - Dartmouth Women's Head Coach Danielle Spencer
Danielle Spencer - Head Women's Coach at Dartmouth
01:05 Danielle's Journey
-Started playing in Junior High
-Was seen first in gym class
-Different from coach Curtis and Kelly at Northwester
-Rochester Hall of Fame
-Playing at Northwestern
-Her best friend Hilary Bowen
-What Kelly taught Danielle as far as creativity and a female athlete
-Referencing those days as a coach
10:15 Kelly's Coaching Tree and Other Northwestern Relationships
-Lindsey Munday as a coach to Danielle
-Other assistant coaches running other programs
-Learning to love coach from all her role models
-Teammates who are now coaching
-Katrina Dowd
-The fun culture
16:17 Going from an Assistant Coach to a Head Coach
-Pride for your program
-New ways of building relationships
-Getting trust in self and voice
-Going from playing a role from managing
-Trust
-Being able to shape a culture
21:47 What You Want to be Known for?
-Women of the Woods
-Tough, confident, gritty
-Outdoorsy element
-Confidence and pride
-Being brave
-Applying everything in the real world after
-Sports as a learning laboratory
27:27 Using Messages to Create a Well Functioning Team
-Hard taking criticism at first and learning to take it
-Letting players have a say and give feedback
-Leadership teams called "Squads"
-Deciding on goals that where player driven
33:14 Philosophy on Player Development
-Making everything tougher
-Make practice harder then games
-Partner passing on the run at speed
39:12 Advice to High School Coaches to See Them Prepare
-Spend more time teaching how to play a great defender
-Team defense
-Crosschecking
-Working on things inside the 8 meter
-Learning to get your shot off
47:34 Shooting With Your Stick to the Inside
-Make one more pass across the crease
-Alley shots almost become selfish
-Box lacrosse influence and the one more pass
-Terrible shots as turnovers
50:41 2 Man Game
-Seeing it a lot
-Doesn't fit the offensive identity right now at Dartmouth
-Seeing it in other sports
-Communication problem
-Make it harder to slide
54:37 Recruiting
-Used to think about the best athletes
-Position specific
-Playing with players all over the world
-Finding a balance of not feeding from the same spot all the time and getting good caliber players with good lax IQ
-Time restriction for skill development in the Ivy League
-Scenarios of IQ at prospect camps
-Coachability
-Getting player on the whiteboard in recruiting
Prospect Camps:
Overnight - July 25th - 28th @ Dartmouth

Mar 4, 2019 • 46min
Phi-Lacrosse-ophy Podcast In Season Edition with Andy Towers - Week 4
In Season with Andy Towers Week 4
01:02 Towson vs Loyola Mid Week Game
06:38 Richmond vs Duke
08:58 Carolina vs Denver
11:11 Syracuse vs Virginia Barnburner
15:07 Notre Dame vs Maryland
17:45 Upcoming Denver vs Notre Dame game
18:28 AXIA Time Ivy League Review
20:00 Princeton vs Johns Hopkins
22:16 Penn vs Penn State
26:17 Cornell vs Albany
29:04 Yale vs UMass
34:02 AXIA Time Player of the Week
-Story about the good old times
Jamie: Jonathan Donville - Cornell
Andy: Luke McCaleb - Brown
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42:30 Next Weeks Games
-Denver vs Notre Dame
-Rutgers vs Princeton
-Syracuse vs Hopkins
-Maryland vs Albany
-Army vs Lehigh
-Penn vs Villanova
-Holy Crosse vs Bucknell
-Cornell vs Penn State

Feb 26, 2019 • 52min
Phi-Lacrosse-ophy Podcast In Season Edition with Andy Towers - Week 3
In Season with Andy Towers Week 3
01:24 Ohio Stats vs Bucknell
05:33 Carolina vs Hopkins and the Rain
11:51 Richmond over Notre Dame
14:52 Navy vs Maryland
16:29 Rutgers vs Loyola
20:58 Syracuse vs Army
22:45 Georgetown vs Towson
25:08 AXIA Time Ivy League Review
-Memory from Brown vs Princeton game in 1991
-Invention of subbing through the midline
31:10 Cornell and Jeff Teat and game vs Hobart
35:03 Duke vs Penn
37:22 Princeton vs Virginia Barn Burner
40:15 Brown vs Stoney Brook
43:32 Yale vs Penn State
47:27 AXIA Time Ivy League Player of the Week
-Jamie: Jeff Teat - Cornell
Andy: TD Ierlan
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48:48 Next Weeks Games
-Towson vs Loyola
-Carolina vs Denver
-Syracuse vs Virginia
-Princeton vs Hopkins
-Penn State vs Penn
-Yale vs UMass
-Cornell vs Albany
-Notre Dame vs Maryland

Feb 26, 2019 • 1h 20min
Phi-Lacrosse-ophy Podcast Ep. 33 - Paul Carcaterra of ESPN
Paul Carcaterra of ESPN
01:25 Yorktown
-"The farm"
-Charlie Murphy Class of 1934
-His story and how he brought lacrosse to Yorktown
-The lacrosse community
-Similar to how the Thompsons and Natives do it
-Different times
-Kids are getting their lacrosse "fix" by playing structured lacrosse
-Using pickup games to try new things and work on things
12:42 Arriving at Syracuse and Playing with Casey Powell
-Yorktown friends
-Roy Simmons Jr. as a coach
-Never being burnt out
-How disciplined the team was
-2 first team all Americans a year on a line
-Casey Powell
-Versatile player
-Powell brothers playing in the backyard
31:45 How Paul Got Into Broadcasting
-Did not study broadcasting in college or Grad school
-Friend suggested him
-First game was Navy vs Army in 2004
-Started studying it because of the rush
-Auditioned and worked with Joe Beninati
-College media guides
-Working other sports
-Interesting all different kinds of fans
-Cutting hair and interviewing people
-Utah interview
-Cutting Dave Pietramala last week
-8 more this year
43:43 Maverick Showtime Backstory and Updates
-The early stages with equipment and apparel
-Acquisition by Bauer Hockey
-Great success story
-Together with Cascade
-Starting Maverick Showtime
-Small numbers
-Never changing the model
-Seeing young players
50:50 The Olympics
-Interesting how it will look
-What are the rules going to be?
-The globalization of the sport
-Provides validity to the game
-Potential rules to make for a good hybrid
-Obtain funding from the countries
56:00 The PLL
-Paul Rabil as a great player and sport contributor
-What they have done in so fast
-Provides good competition
-Challenge and opportunity for the traveling model
-Athletes power and branding
-Denver Pioneer Classic
1:02:42 The Golden Age of Lacrosse and the Beginning of the Season
-Shot clock makes it interesting for the normal fan
-20 seconds to clear the ball is huge
-More up and down
-Shrinking the boxes
-The dive
-Controversial calls so far
1:10:40 Pat Spencer and Jeff Teat
-Comparison to Mikey Powell and Lyle Thompson
-Hanging out with Pat Spencer
-Different style and backround on Pat Spencer
-Jeff Teat as a box player
-Not able to be tolerated being shut off
-John Traveras
-Unreal attack group this year
The Overtime Podcast with Paul Carcaterra

Feb 20, 2019 • 60min
Phi-Lacrosse-ophy Podcast In season Edition with Andy Towers - Week 2
In Season with Andy Towers Week 2
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00:30 Intro
-Vacation Andy is on
02:01 High Point Knocking of Virginia and Events Leading Up to the Game
-Games leading up to the game for both teams
-Playing mid week games
-Asher Nolting
-Face off game
08:18 Duke vs Denver Game
-Come back effort
-Change at the cafe off x
-Denver broken down by each side of the ball
-Nakeie Montgomery and his impact in the future
-Duke defensively
13:48 Army Win Over Rutgers
-Breakdown of Army's team
-Rutgers team and their hump
-Army team deserves more credit
16:43 OSU vs UMass
-Back and forth game
-Hard to win at UMass
-Practices at OSU
18:42 Syracuse vs Albany
-Surprising game
-Complete switch for Syracuse from last week
-Not as impressed with Albany
-Missing Conor Fields
-Tehoka's role
25:01 Penn State vs Stoney Brook
-Penn State putting up insane numbers
-In terms of optics the only team that stands with Penn State may be Loyola
26:23 Pat Spencer and Loyola
-Built as a perfect attackman
-Pat Spencer is special
-Supporting roles
-Deceptive feeding
29:44 Thoughts on Hopkins
-Lack of athleticism offensively
-Not drawing slides
33:24 Ivy League Review and AXIA Time Player of the Week
-How the Air Gate happened
-Penn playing a zone vs Syracuse
-1988 Cornell and Penn in the final 4
-AXIA Time and their background
36:40 Brown vs Quinnipiac
37:30 Dartmouth vs BU
38:16 Penn vs Maryland
40:15 Princeton vs Monmouth
41:35 Harvard vs North Carolina
44:26 Yale vs Villanova upset
48:03 AXIA Ivy League Player of the Week
-Ryan Graff @ Harvard - Jamie's Pick
-Kyle Gallagher @ Penn - Andy's Pick
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50:30 Upcoming Week
-Games coming up
-Penn State at Yale
-Virginia vs Princeton
-Colgate vs Maryland
-Carolina vs Hopkins
-Hobart vs Cornell
-Duke vs Penn
-Richmond vs Notre Dame
-Maryland vs Navy
-Georgetown vs Towson
-Loyola at Rutgers
-Albany vs Drexel
-Syracuse vs Army