Lacrosse in Australia is a minor sport,with a long and proud history dating back to 1876,with a small but dedicated community of participants and volunteers. The established centres for lacrosse are in the greater metropolitan areas of Melbourne,Adelaide,and Perth. In these cities there are organised weekend field lacrosse competitions for men and women at senior and junior levels,played over the winter months. In the off-season,there are informal box lacrosse and sofcrosse competitions,though the majority of players in Australia are mostly of the field lacrosse type. Some lacrosse is also played in Sydney,South East Queensland,Canberra,Ballarat and Bendigo,it is very much at the developmental level.
Sport plays an important role in the business,community,social and cultural life in the state of South Australia.
Robert Mackay Keddie is a former Australian rules footballer who played with Hawthorn in the Victorian Football League (VFL) and West Adelaide,South Adelaide and Glenelg in the South Australian National Football League (SANFL).
The South Australia women's cricket team,formerly known as the South Australian Scorpions,is the women's representative cricket team for the Australian State of South Australia. They play their home games at Adelaide Oval and Karen Rolton Oval. They compete in the Women's National Cricket League (WNCL),the premier 50-over women's cricket tournament in Australia. They previously played in the now-defunct Australian Women's Twenty20 Cup and Australian Women's Cricket Championships.
A lacrosse helmet is a helmet worn primarily in men's lacrosse,but also worn optionally by women's lacrosse players in Australia. Modern helmets consist of a hard plastic,non-adjustable shell with thick padding on the inside,a face mask made of metal bars,and a chinstrap used to secure the helmet to the head. Some players also attach a sun visor shielding the eyes,though these visors are not legal in most leagues.
Philip Mesmer Newland was an Australian sportsman who excelled at Australian rules football,cricket and lacrosse. He played Sheffield Shield cricket for South Australia as a wicket-keeper and toured England with the Australian Test team in 1905.
Jenny Williams is an Australian sports psychologist and athlete who represented South Australia in six sports,namely lacrosse,indoor lacrosse,touch,soccer,cricket,and Australian rules football.
Women's sport in Australia started in the colonial era. Sport made its way into the school curriculum for girls by the 1890s. World War II had little impact on women's sport in the country. After the war,women's sport diversified as a result of new immigrants to the country. In the 1990s,the percentage of media coverage for women's sport on radio,television and in newspapers was not at parity with male sport. Basketball is nominally professional in Australia but players do not earn enough from the sport to compete full-time. Some Australians have gone overseas to play professional sport. Many television spectators for Australian sport are women. In person,netball has large percentage of female spectators. The Australian Federal and State governments have encouraged women to participate in all areas of sport.
Physical literacy is the ability to move with competence and confidence in a wide variety of physical activities in multiple environments that benefit the healthy development of the whole person.
Frank Sherman Pyke was an Australian sports scientist,educator,author,Australian rules footballer and sports administrator. He played 130 games for Perth in the Western Australian National Football League (WANFL) and two interstate matches for Western Australia,and later served as a professor at a number of universities in Australia,Canada and the United States. He also served as the inaugural executive director of the Victorian Institute of Sport (VIS),where he pioneered the Athlete Career and Education (ACE) program.
Sport Pedagogy is the academic field of study,which is located at the intersection between sport and education. As a discipline,sport pedagogy is concerned with learning,teaching and instruction in sport,physical education and related areas of physical activity. Whilst sport pedagogy is mostly regarded as a sub-discipline of sport science,its theoretical grounding is also underpinned by the general education sciences. As a scientific subdiscipline sport pedagogy is therefore allied to both fields,sport science and education.
Wendy Ey,born Wendy Hayes,was an Australian track and field athlete,administrator,academic,author and feminist. She was an athletics sprint and hurdles champion from 1954 until 1960 and a Commonwealth Games silver medalist in Cardiff,Wales in 1958. Ey also excelled at squash and hockey. Ey continued to be an active sport participant all her life and was a master’s world champion in athletics.
Teaching Games for Understanding is an approach to physical education developed by Peter Werner,David Bunker,and Rod Thorpe,and was adopted in the year 2002 by a group of representatives,associations and individuals from all around the world. It is a global agenda for scholarly inquiry in the field of teaching with the help of games. This international task force evolved in 2008 and became the first special interest group of AIESEP.
John Alfred Daly OAM was an Australian academic physical educator,sports historian and Australian Olympic athletics coach.
Celia Brackenridge OBE was a British sportswoman,campaigner and academic. In the mid-1980s,Brackenridge was recognised as the most capped Great Britain lacrosse player. She founded the Women's Sports Foundation UK and also conducted research into the physical and sexual abuse of young sportspeople by coaches.
Fay Biles was an American academic and college sports coach. She was the first woman to serve in a vice presidency role at an Ohio university. As a head coach of the field hockey and lacrosse teams,she logged more victories than any other coach in Kent State University history. She was inducted into the Ohio Women's Hall of Fame in 1986.
Keith Lyons was an educator and sport scientist who specialized in the observation and analysis of performance in sport. He was the author of the first book on the use of video in sport. Lyons founded the Centre for Notational Analysis at the Cardiff Institute of Higher Education in 1992 with the help of John Pugh,Peter Treadwell,David Cobner and Sean Power. He moved to Australia in 2002 to take up a position as the founding Coordinator of Performance Analysis at the Australian Institute of Sport. He was the founding Director of the Institute of Sport Studies at the University of Canberra in 2009. Lyons blogged about his work in teaching,coaching and performance on the "Clyde Street" blog from 2008 onwards.
Dorothy "Dottie" B. McKnight worked as the executive director of the United States Women's Lacrosse Association and the National Association for Girls and Women in Sports,a university professor,a varsity coach,and an advocate for sex equity in athletics.
The Association Internationale des Écoles Supérieures d'Éducation Physique (AIESEP) or the International Association for Physical Education in Higher Education is the professional association for higher education physical education.
