Hummingbird Flies into Lacrosse Industry with Headgear

December 13, 2016 | Press

by Matt DaSilva | USLaxMagazine.com | Twitter

Rob Stolker knew nothing about women's lacrosse or the contentious conversation about headgear that has hovered over the sport since the 1980s. All he knew was what he saw: the youngest two of his four daughters playing a stick-and-ball sport without any equipment to protect them from a potential head injury.

"I let them finish the hour of that practice, but they have not been back on a lacrosse field since," said Stolker, 46, of Holmdel, N.J. "I still think about why it was that I even let them finish out that hour."

 

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