First year Vance Charter Lacrosse Head Coach Dan Sandlin is carrying on the family tradition at the school. Sandlin has taken over for his father, Dennis, as the team’s head coach and has taken the defending conference champions to a tie for the conference title with J.F. Webb.
“Lacrosse is growing but, there are not a lot of 1A schools that have lacrosse,” Sandlin said on Wednesday’s SportsTalk. With so few teams at the 1A level fielding a lacrosse team that means Sandlin has to compete against larger schools. “We try to schedule teams we can compete against,” Sandlin said.
The program has been very successful in the four years it has been offered at Vance Charter. Coming off of last year’s conference championship has been a bit challenging as the team lost seven starters to graduation, but the defending champions are in the thick of it again this year with a solid core of players.
While the athletic side is certainly important to Sandlin, the academics are more so. “We really try to help our guys know they are student-athletes with student coming first.”
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