Good morning. Here’s the latest from around the lacrosse world:

1. The Premier Lacrosse League has still not announced its schedule, nor the television matchups, but did drop the opponents for its championship series. The defending champs Whipsnakes LC appear to the have the toughest road. Each team will play four group games for seeding and the two teams the Whips won’t play are last year’s last place team, Chrome LC, and the expansion Waterdogs LC.

The league also announced waiver wire moves, a list highlighted by 11 players from Chrome LC either on the “excused inactive list” or waived to the player pool. The Chrome departures include 2018 U.S. team gold medalists Matt Danowski and Joel White. Some other big names on the list included Kevin Rice (Archers, player pool) and Matt Landis (Redwoods, military reserve list).

Among the notable players finding new homes so far are Jake Withers (Waterdogs) and Jeremy Thompson (Atlas).

2. The waiting game for the PLL Championship Series has given the players ample time to train to be in top-shape for the event, and they’ve taken advantage. Nelson Rice looks at the way they’ve been training to compete.

3. Two-time gold medalist and Cincinnati head coach Gina (Oliver) Thomas is one of the coaches featured in an article on the responsibilities of coaches to engage their teams in discussions about race.

Gina (Oliver) Thomas hasn't watched the video of George Floyd's death. She doesn't need another instance of racial injustice to prove it still exists.

"Why did George Floyd’s murder get us to where we are now? This happened for the umpteenth time."https://t.co/UhOb8xPaA3

— US Lacrosse Magazine (@USLacrosseMag) June 16, 2020

4. Mynk Richardson-Clerk kneeled during the national anthem her final two seasons at North Central College (Ill.). In an interview with Matt Hamilton, she explains why.

5. World Lacrosse will be launching its new website today.

Tomorrow, June 17th pic.twitter.com/Qjj80PB9gp

— World Lacrosse (@worldlaxsport) June 16, 2020

6. The U.S. women’s national team players will be offering a series of one-hour virtual clinics beginning June 23. The cost is $21, in recognition of the 2021 World Lacrosse Women’s World Championship hosted by US Lacrosse next July.

WHAT WE’RE READING

• Inside Lacrosse examines the lacrosse program at the Ferris School (Del.), a secure juvenile facility for boys 13-18 that has benefitted from US Lacrosse assistance over the years.

• Former Princeton and Team USA goalie Trevor Tierney shared this interesting article about “quiet eye” and the science behind how this helps athletes perform at a high level.

• Duke officially announced that Penn star Gabby Rosenzweig will join its women’s lacrosse team as a graduate student. Rosenzweig set a Penn record with 247 career points. We originally reported her intention to head to Duke on April 27.

• Former U.S. U19 star Brindi Griffin will return to the University of Maryland for her fifth season. In the shortened 2020 season, Griffin led the Terps with 15 goals in six games.

• Chris Jastrzembski writes that the MAAC could become a landing spot for the Robert Morris men’s lacrosse program following the school’s departure from the Northeast Conference to the Horizon League, which does not sponsor lacrosse.

• Kayleigh Dion was honored by the US Lacrosse Western Massachusetts chapter with the Jackie Pitts Award.

• The NLL and WAVE have entered into an agreement that will include the distribution of NLL athlete, franchise and league content where applicable across WAVE’s entire portfolio of media brands

WHAT WE’RE WATCHING

Recruiting is going to look a lot different this summer for college coaches. High Point men’s lacrosse coach Jon Torpey has some fun with it.

What High Point Lacrosse recruiting will look like in the summer of 2020.#LeaveNoDoubt x #GoHPU pic.twitter.com/XvCG5KpMMz

— High Point Lacrosse (@HPUMensLax) June 16, 2020

Kyle Harrison shares highlights from the Bronx Lacrosse organization.

What a highlight! Big shout to to all the @Bronx_Lacrosse players! Keep on goin, we ALL got your back. Click  https://t.co/U945DcAQsu to donate to this incredible organization. pic.twitter.com/vnToLU9lGQ

— Kyle Harrison (@KyleHarrison18) June 16, 2020

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