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IHSA Board Approves Lacrosse State Series For 2010-11

From the IHSA website - The Illinois High School Association (IHSA) Board of Directors approved a recommendation at its regularly scheduled meeting on Tuesday, October 13 to adopt an official State Series for the sports of Boys Lacrosse and Girls Lacrosse beginning with the 2010-11 school term. The official IHSA lacrosse season, State Series and State Finals will be contested during the spring semester.

The addition of lacrosse will bring the total number of boys and girls sports contesting state championships to 15 apiece, while the overall number of IHSA sports and activities will grow to 43.

“The goal of the IHSA is to provide quality interscholastic opportunities for students in the state and the Board recognized that the addition of boys and girls lacrosse helps support that mission,” said IHSA Executive Director Marty Hickman. “The Board’s decision was consistent with the procedures used when adopting several other recent sports and activities, including water polo and journalism.”

The Board did create a contingency that 65 boys lacrosse teams and 40 girls lacrosse teams must be registered to participate in the state series by the February 1, 2011 spring sport deadline in order for either sport to crown a state champion in 2010-11. According to the IHSA Emerging Sports List, there are currently 65 schools fielding boys lacrosse teams in the state and 40 fielding girls lacrosse teams.

Even if the contingency prevents the inaugural state series from occurring during the 2010-11 school term, Hickman reiterated that the Board’s decision on Tuesday will only help the sport’s growth in Illinois.

“The Board felt it was important to put contingencies in place to preserve the esteem of the tournament and crowning a state champion, even if it has the possibility of delaying the start of a state series until beyond 2010-11. Regardless, we feel like the IHSA’s endorsement of the sport will help bring more legitimacy to club and intramural programs around the state and that many more schools will field squads in the coming years.”

Currently, 17 other state associations crown champions in boys and girls lacrosse.

The Spring Season begins Monday, March 1, 2010

The D230 Chiefs are open to all interested boys grades 9 - 12 from Sandburg, Andrew, and Stagg.

If you or someone you know would like to play lacrosse, email us for more info at chiefslax@comcast.net

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Our Mission Statement

Bringing Out The Best


On and off the field. Athletically, Academically, and Personally. That’s the primary goal of the Orland Park Chiefs Lacrosse Club. We will instill in our young players the values of quality, integrity, teamwork, and sportsmanship--values that will stay with them when they leave the lacrosse field, and eventually leave our program upon high school graduation. Each member of our team is valuable to our team’s success, and personal improvement should be the goal of each individual.

The Club is dedicated to organizing, developing, and promoting the sport of lacrosse within high school district 230 and the surrounding community. We shall honor the game, respect our opponents, and value the concept of team above individual players as we field competitive lacrosse teams from frosh through varsity level. Our organization will be open to accepting all members who share our ideals, and wish to be a part of our mission. Upon IHSA approval, the club hopes to field seperate teams at each of the three district high schools (Andrew, Sandburg, and Stagg).

Each member of the Chiefs is expected to carry himself with class and dignity both on and off the field, to exhibit a strong work ethic, to place the team above himself, and to be responsible for his own actions. This will enable us to consistently bring out the best in each and every one of us.


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School Club Presidents
ANDREW - Austin Bensema
SANDBURG - Jeff Dahlberg
STAGG - John Walsh
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HISTORY The Chiefs are a boys lacrosse team. The club was organized in the summer of 2003 by George Miller, the father of a junior high boy. Several boys from Century JHS and surrounding towns came to a clinic put on by Lacrosse America during the summer. That group played several games against high school teams and then moved on to an indoor league at Darien Sportsplex. Today, those boys are still playing lacrosse. On March 24, the D230 School Board voted unanimously to recognize Lacrosse as an emerging sport. The first season in the IHSLA was played in spring 2005.

Based in the Orland Park area, the HS team is composed of members from each of the Distrct 230 high schools - Andrew, Sandburg and Stagg . Any male student in District 230 is welcome to join the high school program and play on one of the teams.

Orland Park Youth Lacrosse Club is a seperate entity from the D230 Chiefs. Even though they call themselves "The Chiefs", they are a seperate entity from the High School team.