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MARK YOUR CALENDAR!!
JAX
BEACH
WINTER CAMP
December 28th - 30th |
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ADDITIONAL CAMP STAFF |
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JU Camps feature a quality staff comprised of coaches from DI, DII, and DIII levels. Schools represented at past and future JU camps
include: Johns Hopkins, James Madison, Loyola, Virginia Tech,
Louisville, Cincinnati, Navy, Brown, Detroit-Mercy, Rollins,
Hamilton, Converse, Pfeiffer, Birmingham-Southern, Agnes Scott, SCAD,
Robert Morris, Edinborro, Former Team USA players.
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CAMP COACHING STAFF
MINDY MCCORD
Mindy McCord has a wealth of head coaching
experience. Her latest season, at Jacksonville
University, concluded with the co-coach of the year
award in the National Lacrosse Conference after her
all-rookie Division I team finished with eight wins
and were just two goals from earning a trip to the
NLC title game. JU was the only team during the
regular season in the NLC to hold half-time leads
against both Longwood (Finished as conference
champion) and Davidson (conference runner up). The
Dolphins completed the season 3rd in the NLC.
McCord led the first-year Dolphins to amazing
heights for a 1st year program: JU led the nation in
Ground Balls per game (24.37), 7th in Draw Controls
per game (14.16), 17th in total points (338), T-17th
in assists (104), and 28th in scoring offense
(12.32).
http://web1.ncaa.org/stats/StatsSrv/ranksummary
The most impressive stat was the team Grade Point
Average for the young Dolphin squad: 3.0
None of the players on McCord’s first-year team had
ever played a season Division I lacrosse.
JU’s Final Conference Rankings were quite convincing
(source, ncaa.com):
1st – Ground Balls
1st - Assists
1st - GK Karli Tobin in Individual Saves
2nd – Points*
2nd – Scoring Offense*
2nd – Draw Controls
* Coach McCord’s attack had no individual players
listed in the league’s top-8 goal scorers, yet her
attack was one of the most highly effective TEAM
attacks in the league, and nationally ranked. Ten
players scored ten or more goals, and six players
finished with 10 or more assists per game, further
reinforcing Coach McCord’s philosophy of TEAM play.
McCord is one of the most experienced coaches in the
National Lacrosse Conference with 20 seasons as a
head coach (17 in college and three in high school),
McCord has accumulated 194 wins in two sports
(lacrosse and field hockey). Her teams have earned
either championship, or runner-up status nine times
during her 20 seasons as a head coach. McCord has
recruited and developed 11 all-Americans, 23
regional all-Americans, and 4 conference players of
the year.
McCord is a renowned speaker and regularly presents
on her specialty of team and program building. Most
recently, she presented to her colleagues at the
2010 US Lacrosse Convention.
Her full-time coaching career began as a 23-year old
head coach at prestigious Oberlin College in Ohio.
As one of the NCAA’s youngest head coaches, she hit
the ground running winning consecutive lacrosse
conference titles in 1997 and 1998. During the 1997
season, her squad boasted an undefeated conference
record (11-0), leading to North Coast Athletic
Conference Coach of the Year honors. The two titles
were the only two championships won by any program
at Oberlin College during her four-year tenure.
She continued her career at McDaniel College as head
field hockey and lacrosse coach. While in her
hometown (Westminster, Md.), McCord won the school’s
first and only conference title in field hockey,
where she is the all-time winningest coach (61) and
has the school’s best winning percentage (.640). For
her efforts during the 2002 season, McCord was named
Centennial Conference Coach of the year in field
hockey.
She rebuilt the lacrosse program at McDaniel,
helping the program to a 10-6 record in 2002 and
establishing recruiting in-roads that have led to
McDaniel becoming a consistent top-25 program.
McCord moved to the First Coast in 2004 and
immediately began spreading her joy of lacrosse in
the community by building and consulting with youth
leagues, high school programs and officials groups.
She took over a fledgling program at Nease High
School in 2006. The program had won only 3 games in
their first 3 seasons combined, but in her first
season at the helm, Nease won 4 games and climbed to
a top-20 ranking in the State of Florida. Nease went
on to win consecutive district titles, and
back-to-back #8 rankings in Florida in '07 and '08.
During the 2008 season, Nease finished with a record
of 13-5 and a ranking of #16 in the southern United
States. During her final season at Nease, McCord
earned her 100th win as a lacrosse coach (102-73).
For her efforts at Nease, Mindy was named by her
peers as US Lacrosse-Orlando’s Coach of the Year.
Since McCord moved to the Jacksonville area, the
number of girls playing lacrosse has increased by
more than 600% from fewer than 60 in 2004 to more
than 700 at present. The high school programs have
grown from two marginal programs to 15 with three
ranked in the state’s top-25. Mindy sits on the
board of Creeks Girls Lacrosse, the areas largest
girls lacrosse youth association with more than 120
girls in grades 3-8. Her camps, clinics, coaching
and officiating events have helped to build a strong
infrastructure for successful programs in the
Jacksonville area.
As a player, McCord has national and international
playing experience. She was a four-year starter at
Lynchburg (VA) College; earning rookie of the year,
team captain, all conference, regional All-American,
and North/South Senior All Star game honors. Coach
McCord also played while studying abroad in
Australia.
Mindy was born in Westminster, Md. and attended
Westminster High School where she played field
hockey, lacrosse, and ran track, earning honors in
all three sports. In her senior year, she founded
and implemented a youth lacrosse club in Carroll
County, Maryland.
ADAM NORTON
Adam Norton is one of the best and most fun to learn
from coaches in the nation. His infectious
enthusiasm and energy always brings out the best in
his players at camp. Adam has been a fixture at more
than four JU Lacrosse camps since 2009. He also was
a featured clinician at the 2010 US Lacrosse
convention where his presentation received rave
reviews. He is one of the most talented teachers of
the modern game and one of the brightest minds in
the sport.
Adam comes to JULacrosse after a 3-year coaching
stint at Stanford University where he began in 2006
as a volunteer assistant in charge of camps and
Cardinal Elite Club and rose to become the co-head
coach in 2008. As co-head coach of Stanford
University he was named US Lacrosse Coach of the
week after his team knocked off previously unbeaten
#2 Penn, Boston College, and #12 Notre Dame in the
same week. During the 2008 season Adam helped
Stanford finish with a MPSF Conference title and a
final national ranking of #18.
He has also been a collegiate assistant coach for
the Catholic University Men's team.
Norton has had an amazing run at the prep level,
working with several elite club programs, including
Capital Lacrosse, Midwestern Force, and most
recently LaxManiax Elite. He has coached at Bullis,
St. Andrews (boys and girls) as well as Episcopal
(VA) (boys and girls).
He has international men’s experience with the
Hamburg Warriors Lacrosse team in Germany. He has
also served as a selector for the D.C. Metro US
Lacrosse Girls' National Tournament teams and
coached the Under Armour Girls' All-American team
from D.C. Adam played for Dickinson College and was
rookie of the year in 1994, MVP and Team Captain in
1997 and holds the NCAA Division III record for most
saves in a single game.
Adam directs a lacrosse company called “C4
Lacrosse”. His company specializes in clinics and
individual instruction. He also has experience in
the financial world, as he was a financial advisor
for Legg Mason Wood Walker from 2000-04. He also was
the ambassador for the Greater Washington Board of
Trade from 2000-05.
JEN HEUP
Before coming to JU, Heup found herself between the
pipes in the Division I Senior All-Star Game shortly
before being named the Most Valuable Player. During
her senior season, Heup lead her Louisville team to
its first ever BIG EAST Tournament appearance after
leading the league in save percentage and saves
made.
Prior to her career at Louisville, Heup played two
seasons at Ohio University before the program was
discontinued. As a sophomore, she was named the
American Lacrosse Conference “Goalie of the Year”
and ranked 13th in the nation in save percentage.
Outside the lines, Heup has worked as a camp
counselor for four years at five different schools
including lacrosse powerhouses Duke, Navy and
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