Lacrosse coverage a real score
Lacrosse coverage a real score
I was pleased to see the articles in both papers by J.R. De Groote on the Konawaena/HPA lacrosse game. I played high school lacrosse at Huntington, Long Island and college lacrosse at RPI in Troy, New York, in the late ’50s and early 1960s. I was a center midfielder at RPI and missed by a year playing against the great Jim Brown of Syracuse. I was involved playing pickup games in the 1970s at Kapiolani Park. Honolulu attorney, Brook Hart, whom I played against while he was at Johns Hopkins, played with us back then.
I came to Hawaii Island in the early ’70s working in the Hilo and Kona ERs and began having some informal games at HPA with the students. Mr. Loren Barker had started some middle school lacrosse lessons. In an October 1980 West Hawaii Today article, my son Chris and I demonstrated some lacrosse moves and I expressed how I’d love to see lacrosse in Hawaii’s high schools.
I met HPA teacher and former college lacrosse player, Will Zucker, a few years ago and want to congratulate him and Konawaena on getting the path to BIIF lacrosse started. Lacrosse, which had its origins with Native Americans in the Canadian and Great Lakes area, is a fantastic sport.
I talked to Brook Hart recently and he says he still carries a lacrosse stick in his car on Oahu hoping to toss the ball around with someone.
Dr. Fred Holschuh
Honokaa