A Look Ahead to 2008 and a Proposal

[Sonny]

For the record, Sonny's "photo" is a graphic image from the upcoming NCAA Football 2008 video game.

The 2-3,000 cited by an earlier poster is a pipe dream.

Agree. We had between 1000 and 1500 this year in Duluth (No. Atlanta suburb) for our semis and our finals at the SELC tournament. Those numbers represent the best crowd ever in SELC history and we have been at the same site with the same booster club for 3 straight years now (with a literal army of volunteers, many of which work year round on our event).

Find a high school lacrosse booster club with a decent venue that want to get behind your event and will let you come in for the entire championship tournament weekend.

[Dan Wishengrad]

Starfire Sports Complex, main stadium. Seating capacity is 2,000. This place would be ideal for a PNCLL Final Four weekend. The complex is practically right next to SeaTac Airport, which means an abundance of hotels with convention/banquet facilities.

Right next to the stadium are three more fields with FieldTurf:


There are locker rooms, a restaurant, an athletic center/gymnasium and also indoor arena fields, which could be booked for team warm-ups if the weather turns foul. Starfire has hosted lacrosse and they are interested in our event.



Having multiple fields is a HUGE advantage for any proposed Final Four bid. Is there a similiar type facility in the Boise region? Spokane?

[ZagGrad]

Is there a similiar type facility in the Boise region? Spokane?

Are you kidding?! Spokane doesn't have anything even remotely close resembling anything in those pictures. To be honest, Spokane will probably never will have anything like that until a sugar daddy comes along and fronts the bill, but good luck with all that.

That looks like a pretty good venue.

[Dr. Jason Stockton]

The 2007 PNCLL Tourney brought in $2100 on Saturday in gate receipts and $1600 on Sunday. Numbers on Saturday were certainly boosted by the presence of a local team in PLU. . .all 75 kids that attended the Friday clinic got in both days for free.

Gate costs were $5 for adults, and $3 for kids. . .So we are guessing attendance was somewhere around 500-700 on Saturday and 400-600 on Sunday, for the record.

Had a local team advanced to the finals I'm sure the Sunday numbers would have been much greater. . .I just thought while you were discussing numbers I might provide some from recent history.

[Ryan Hanavan]

Starfire looks pretty sweet. I also thought Curtis HS was a great venue. Dan brings up a great point about field specs. If there is ever a time to have legal/regulation fields, it's the playoffs. The sprinTurf is nice but on a hot day you can cook on it. Do we have any nice (Pizza Hut Park nice) grass stadium fields in the greater PNCLL region?

All this talk about playoffs, lets just get the 2008 season underway!

[nlyon02]

does anyone know when the mccall tourney is?

[Ryan Hanavan]

does anyone know when the mccall tourney is?

The laxid.com forum has August 11-12 as the dates.

[Shawn Carman]

Here is the post stright from Tad Arnt (the McCall founder himself).

2007 McCall Tournament

Overview: This will be the 4th Annual McCall Lacrosse Tournament. The event is a casual Adult Men’s tournament open to all teams. Last year 5 teams participated in the event. The tournament will be capped at 8 teams.

Dates: August 11th-12th

Location: McCall High School
Address: 120 Idaho Street
McCall Idaho

Schedule:
Saturday: Round Robin Games from 9-5
Sunday: Playoffs, Consolation and Championship Game

Cost: $350 per team
Covers Field and officials.
Players must be registered with US Lacrosse for Insurance purposes. Any excess funds from the event will be donated to the US Lacrosse, Idaho Chapter.

Lodging: On your own, but McCall offers Hotel, Condos and multiple camping options. Visit www.inidaho.com for a complete listing of options

About McCall: McCall is a small Mountain Winter/Summer vacation town located 100 miles North of Boise on Payette Lake.

Payment Address:
Lacrosse Idaho
Attn: McCall Lacrosse Tournament
1217 Broadway Ave. Suite 108
Boise, ID 83706

Tournament fees must be received by July 20th. No exceptions will be made

Questions or comments to:
Tadarnt@aol.com