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2024 Central Jersey Youth Lacrosse Champions

May 23, 2024

Congrats to  Monroe Boys 7/8 team as champs of the CJYLL 2024 Season. Impressive performance !

2025 Spring Season is NOW OPEN for REGISTRATION

MONROE LACROSSE

Spring Season with Winter Workouts is for grades 3-8.

Pre K to grade 2 - we offer a Little Laxers program Winter and Spring Sessions.


Little Laxers Winter Clinic

Boys & Girls Grades Pre K- Grade 2

Boys & Girls Little Laxers Winter Clinic

We offer two session for boys & girls  Pre-K to grade 2 . The winter session registration is open now. The Spring session will Start in April. Please check the website for open registration in March.

Little Laxers Winter Clinic will be held in the gymnasium of Brookside Elementary School, Sunday Mornings.

 5 weeks $50 - See flyer below with dates and times.

Spring Little Laxers starts April 1 at Veteran's Park,  Ave. K Monroe.

Registration for Spring Little Laxers will open March 1st.  



SPRING SEASON REGISTRATION IS NOW OPEN 

GRADES 3-8

SPRING 2025 rEGISTRATION

Click here for registration


Early registration will end

February 1st.  

Register early and save $25!

Our Spring Lacrosse Season will begin on Sunday, January 5th


We will be including winter workouts with our Spring Registration.

Indoor winter clinics will be held at the

Brookside Elementary School Gym

370 Buckelew Ave, Monroe Township

Sundays

1/5, 1/12, 1/26, 2/2, 2/9 and 2/23

 

9am-10am                Boys & Girls little laxers Pre K-2

10am-11am       Boys grades 3 to 5

11am-12pm       Boys grades 6 to 8

12pm-2pm         Girls all grades 3 to 8

 

In addition, we will have indoor practices 

Monday Nights

8 to 9pm.

The Fields at East Brunswick

8 Cornwall Court, East Brunswick 

Girls grades 3 to 8:

1/6, 1/20, 2/3, 2/17

Boys grades 3 to 8:

1/13, 1/27, 2/10, 2/24



Spring Practices

Outdoor practices start in March for grades 3-8

Monroe Township High School Cage

Tentative schedule 

Girls 

Monday, Wednesday & Sunday

Boys 

Tuesday, Thursday & Saturday

times to be determined.

April Practices

Will continue at Avenue K in April 2025.

Game schedules to be determined. 

 

$25 off Register Before Feb. 1st 2025

$50 off for Sibling Discount Grades 3-8

Monroe Lacrosse Spring Program

Monroe Lacrosse Spring Season for both boys & girls grades 3-8 opens the first week of March.

Our Practices are held three times a week starting at the Monroe High School fields, then are moved to Veteran’s Park, Ave. K fields in April. All home games are played at Veteran’s Park. Ave. K fields. Games are held both weekdays and weekends. Games continue into early May, culminating in conference playoffs.

Spring registration opens in January with early bird discounts. We also offer sibling discounts with  regular registration.

Our Little Laxers Program begins in April and runs for 8-10 weeks. Our Little Laxers Programs welcome players Pre-K to grade 2.




Monroe Rec Lacrosse

Our MissionMonroe Rec Lacrosse is a community-based lacrosse program dedicated to increasing the exposure and enjoyment of the game of lacrosse to children in and around the community of Monroe, NJ. Boys and girls teams grades K-8.

Our goal is to place a lacrosse stick in every child’s hand within the community and to teach train and involve the larger community in supporting what we consider to be the greatest game in the world. 

The lacrosse season begins the first week of March and runs through the end of May. Our Registration for the Spring Season, grades K-8, opens mid-December. 

Monroe Lacrosse will offer fall 7v7 games, little laxer clinics and winter clinics.

 

 


Boys 7/8





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Marchione strikes in 4th OT to lift Monroe past Old Bridge in back-and-forth marathon

Updated: Apr. 17, 2024, 8:22 a.m.|

 

 

HIGH SCHOOL SPORTS

Dowd, Monroe fire back to defeat East Brunswick - Girls Lacrosse recap

  • Updated: Apr. 09, 2024, 11:00 p.m.|

Julianna Dowd (11) of Monroe looks to pass the ball against North Brunswick during the girls lacrosse game at Monroe HS in Monroe Twp, NJ on Thursday, May 4, 2023John Jones | For NJ Advance Media

MONROE LACROSSE LEAGUE INFORMATION


Monroe Lacrosse Girls

Jersey Girls Lacrosse

Association

JGLA is dedicated to the promotion and growth of girls lacrosse programs across the state of New Jersey

 

ALLENTOWN

BRICK

EAST BRUNSWICK

EAST WINDSOR

HOPEWELL

HOWELL

JACKSON

LAWRENCE

MILLSTONE

MONROE TOWNSHIP

MONTGOMERY

MOORESTOWN

NORTH BRUNSWICK

OCEAN TWP

PRINCETON

RANCOCAS VALLEY

ROBBINSVILLE

RUMSON/FAIR HAVEN

SAYREVILLE

SOUTH BRUNSWICK

WEST WINDSOR

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Monroe Lacrosse Boys

Member of the Central Jersey Youth Lacrosse League

PROUD TO SERVE BOYS LACROSSE PROGRAMS THROUGHOUT CENTRAL NEW JERSEY


Congratulations to Director of Coaching Joe Garavente who has been selected to be a member of the Johns Hopkins Lacrosse Board!

Congratulations to Director of Coaching Joe Garavente who has been selected to be a member of the Johns Hopkins Lacrosse Board! The Board is responsible for setting the strategic direction of the Men's and Women's programs and implement directives to maximize the experience of the Hopkins Student Athletes.

Coach G was a High School All American-lacrosse player at Uniondale High School in New York. He graduated from Johns Hopkins with a BES in Electrical Engineering and was a member of two NCAA Championship lacrosse teams at John Hopkins and is a 3-year Captain of Pod for Johns Hopkins Mentoring Program. He received his MBA from JL Kellogg Business School at Northwestern University, where he was Head Coach for Northwestern Club Team for two seasons.  He is an active member of the Monroe Rec and HS lacrosse programs and is a resident here in Monroe. He is a proud father of two girls, two boys and grandfather of three.  

Coach Joe Garavente is currently an Assistant Coach for the Monroe High School Lacrosse Program. He has been an integral part of the Monroe coaching staff since 2008, overseeing the transition from a new lacrosse program to one of the top programs in Central New Jersey.  His accomplishments with Monroe High School Lacrosse include Two Time GMC Assistant Coach of the Year, Nine GMC Finals, Five Consecutive GMC Championships- six in last seven seasons. 

 Coach G has been the Vice President of Central Jersey Youth Lacrosse League since 2011.  Co-leading the effort to standardize rules, originated a playoff system and All-Star game for grades 5-8 for a 16 towns group. He is a leader in providing clinics and ongoing education for coaches and players. 

Coach G started the Monroe Rec Lacrosse program in 2006, designed as the feeder program for the new Varsity Program at Monroe High School.  He was the President of the program from 2006 to 2017 seeing growth to 200 Rec players and 120 HS players and has been the Director of Coaching since 2018. Coach G also started the 5/6 grade East Brunswick Rec Program as a joint effort with Monroe and EB- coached from 1995 to 2006.    

We would like to send huge congratulations to Coach G for this great honor of being selected to be a member of the Johns Hopkins Lacrosse Board.