Lacrosse

• The deadline for the Baseball clinic has been extended until Wednesday (02/10).

• Clinic Schedule for Spring Sports

  Baseball	January 11 - February 10, 2010
  Lacrosse	January 19 - February 8, 2010
  Soccer	January 8 - February 5, 2010
  Track and Field	February 1 - 22, 2010

• Coaches and Officials - In order to receive clinic credit in a particular sport, you must complete the clinic for that sport by the date listed. For credit to be recorded, you must watch the entire presentation and fill out an attendence form that will be presented at the end of the presentation. However, after the clinic deadline has passed, the attendance form will no longer appear.

• If you are having trouble viewing the clinic presentations, try these troubleshooting tips.

• We have had many clinic confirmation emails bounce back to us due to incorrect email addresses or spam filters. There are also some email providers that are routing certain emails from our email server to Spam folders. If you did not receive a confirmation email, please check your Spam folder. You can also send an email to clinics@ghsa.net and we will resend the confirmation or route it to another address.

• Please retain your confirmation email as this is your proof that you completed the clinic.

• The following online rules clinics are available - click on the clinic title to start the presentation.

Clinic Title	Clinic Credit Available Until
2009 GHSA Basketball Rules Clinic for Coaches and Officials	10/20/2009
2009 GHSA Swimming and Diving Rules Clinic for Coaches and Officials	10/20/2009
2010 GHSA Baseball Rules Clinic for Coaches and Officials	02/10/2010
2010 GHSA Boys Lacrosse Rules Clinic for Coaches and Officials	02/08/2010
2010 GHSA Girls Lacrosse Rules Clinic for Coaches and Officials	02/08/2010
2010 GHSA Soccer Rules Clinic for Coaches and Officials	02/05/2010
2010 GHSA Track and Field Rules Clinic for Coaches	02/22/2010

The Lacrosse Rules Clinic (boys and girls) will be on-line from January 19, 2010 to February 8, 2010. Lacrosse coaches and officials must complete the clinic within this time frame in order to receive clinic credit.

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Lacrosse Rules and Procedures extracted from the 2009-2010 GHSA Constitution and By-Laws.

Because of the continued growth of high school Lacrosse in Georgia, the GHSA will change the alignments of the areas and will add a new championship division. Beginning with the 2009-2010 school year there will be Lacrosse championships (boys and girls) for schools in class AAAAA and for schools in classes AAAA/AAA/AA/A. This is the same format that is used in the sport of Swimming and Diving.

Each division leading to a championship will be composed of four areas, and the top four teams in each area will advance to the playoffs. There will be four rounds of playoff competition as has been the case in recent years. Championship matches will be held on May 14-15, 2010. Because of the expanded number of matches during the playoffs, specific dates may need to be mandated in order to be certain there is an adequate supply of experienced officials.

Please note that Greenbrier High School, a AAAAA school, has been placed in the other division as allowed by the “Isolation Policy” approved by the GHSA Executive Committee.