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When his Cowichan Valley Thunder midget A team didn’t make the provincial box lacrosse championships in Campbell River earlier this month, Mat Jung’s mom, Gina, still had to find a way to get him there and to the annual awards ceremony.

What she knew, and what he would find out, was that he had been named the 2014 Subway BCLA Box Lacrosse Player of the Year.

Jung was one of eight players in B.C. named as the best in their respective zones. The eight were invited up on stage to be honoured at the ceremony.

“They called all the zone winners up and we all got jackets,” Jung recalled. “After we all got the jackets, they told us to open them up.”

They all expected an envelope or something to fall out, and started shaking their jackets. Finally, it was pointed out that all the jackets were embroidered to recognize that they were zone winners, except Jung’s, which was labeled with Player of the Year.

“I was kind of surprised,” he admitted. “It’s kind of a big achievement. I was quite proud of myself, and I’m sure my mom was too.”

Having already received a $500 postsecondary scholarship as zone winner, he got another $500 for the provincial honour, the culmination of 13 years of passion and dedication to the sport. In addition to playing, Jung has been a referee for the last five years, and helped coach the pee wee C team this year, when he had time.

With his midget team, Jung had a rough season as the only returning player from the team that won provincial bronze the year before. All the other second-year players had played B or C the previous year, and some were playing A-level lacrosse for the first time. “It had its ups and downs, but overall I thought it was a good season,” Jung said. “We finished strong.”

Jung did win a provincial silver medal with Cowichan’s intermediate B team. Jung finished second in the scoring race at the provincial championship tournament with 24 points, just two points back of teammate Colin Winship.

In late July, he won a bronze medal with the Vancouver Island team at the BC Summer Games.

This coming weekend, Jung will join Team BC at the national field lacrosse championships in Edmonton, where his teammates will include fellow Thunder star Brian Robb and former Cowichan player Tyler Glanfield. The team’s goal is nothing short of winning it all.

“We definitely want to medal; we’re shooting for the gold,” Jung said. “We have a very skilled team. There’s kind of a lot of pressure because the B.C. U16 team has won gold three years in a row.”

After that, he’ll prepare for the junior box lacrosse draft in January. He was invited to the Victoria Shamrocks prospect camp, but Team BC practice got in the way. In the longer run, he hopes to pursue the sport into the post-secondary ranks, hopefully playing collegiate field lacrosse in the U.S. Going into Grade 11, he has already spent two years at Claremont Secondary’s lacrosse academy in Victoria. Although he grew up playing box lacrosse, he has made a smooth transition to field in recent years.

“I like playing both, but I’m starting to ease toward liking field better,” he said. “When you play it enough, you start liking it a bit more.”

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NW Invitational Champions

Posted by Claremont Lacrosse at Apr 7, 2014 11:16PM PDT

Claremont went south of the boarder to play the NW best Lacrosse teams in the NW Invitational. A collection of elite teams from throughout Northwest from Colorado, Nevada, Oregon, Washington and BC.

Claremont pressed by defending Washington champs Bellevue in a sloppy, very wet game played at Mercer Stadium winning 9-8. Claremont then went on to defeat the Nevada champs (Coronado) 16-4, as well state finalist and semi finalists Palo Verder and Centennial winning 18-5 and 21-4.

Claremont brings the NW bragging rights back to BC by winning the invitational!!

BC's High School Provincial Results

Posted by Claremont Lacrosse at Apr 7, 2014 11:07PM PDT
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It was another successful BC provincial tournament for the Claremont Lacrosse Program.

The Junior Teams
Both make semis, only losing one game in round robin. Claremont Jr Red lost to eventual champs Centennial 11-9, while Claremont Jr White lost to Pitt Meadows 11-8

The Senior Teams
The Claremont Sr Grade 11 team only had one loss in the round robin to Charles Best. They lost in the semi to defending champs Terry Fox

Claremont Sr Grade 12 Team was class of tourney. The team played very well winning final 11-6 and taking 5th banner in last 8 years.

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On-Field Assessments for New Applicants

Posted by Kelly Harris at Mar 28, 2014 1:03PM PDT

On-Field Assessment for all New Applicants Wednesday, April 2nd.

Coach Reisig requests the attendance of all NEW applicants to the Claremont Lacrosse Program to attend an on-field assessment on April 2nd at 1:00. The session will take place at Claremont Secondary (4980 Wesley Rd.) on the main field. Please park in the South lot, behind the gymnasium. Players must come ready to participate in a full practice session and on-field evaluation of game play.

Please confirm your attendance with Coach Reisig at;
dreisig@sd63.bc.ca