About Hurricanes

About Us
The Hurricanes is an elite team made up of premier high school players from all over Connecticut who are coming together to play tournaments through the Summer and Fall seasons. Now in their third year they continue to play powerful lacrosse throughout the Northeast. For 2007 the team went 32-3 including semi-final finish the NDP National Championships.

Returning coaches, Mike Waldvogel, Hall of Fame player and coach, assisted by Western Connecticut Coach, Jason Ouelett, with the addition of former Fairfield University Assistant Coach Darryl Delia, are once again molding a team to compete for the national championship in Florida in early 2009 and to showcase the team's talents for the college recruiting community.

The Hurricanes are drawn from players within the Nutmeg Sports Camps programs. Already a number of Hurricanes players have received athletic scholarships to Division I, II and III lacrosse programs . This coming September, 18 Hurricanes players from the 2007 team will attend Division I collegiate programs on lacrosse scholarships.

This year the Hurricanes rising seniors team and Gators and Seminoles programs for rising juniors and rising sophomore teams and joined by our newest program, the Junior Gators for players in Grades 7-8. This team will be coaches by Tony Tanzi, graduate standout from Fairfield University and Bost Cannons MLL draftee, Ryan Vilar. Coach Vilar was a outstanding midfielder at Division I Hofstra University.

Goals
The Hurricanes have one goal: to develop top flight lacrosse players to their maximum potential.

We believe that this goal is best reached with the skill building inherent in being on a team where every player is skilled so that the most is expected of each player by his teammates. Secondly, we believe that college play is different from high school level lacrosse and the best way to learn college level skills is from college coaches. Finally, we believe that being on a top team with outstanding teammates and great college coaches and mentors are by themselves not enough - that to develop fully players need the intense competition achieved by competition at the highest tournament levels.

Plans
We plan to build a club based on super elite players under the tutelage of one of the game's great coaches, Mike Waldvogel assisted by Jay Ouellet. We plan to offer the best coaching to the best athletes and then train them to play outstanding lacrosse under the intense competition of the region's top tournaments. In our first year 12 of our players received college scholarships for lacrosse. At the end of this past summer, our second year, the number jumped to 23 Hurricanes receiving college scholarship support. We plan to continue to develop outstanding players who understand and master the college game of lacrosse.