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4th Annual Coach Bob Slate "Grow The Game" Jamboree

Postponed due to flooded fields

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May 10, 2025

A tournament to honor the founder of Lacrosse in Saugerties, Coach Bob Slate.   

This year 53 teams will come to the Saugerties High School to play, starting at 8:30am.

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Founder of SAY-LAX, Coach Bob Slate

Once arriving in the Hudson Valley his love of the sport of lacrosse continued as he served as a Assistant Coach at Marist College and in 1991 he was named the first head coach of the Kingston High School Varsity Lacrosse Team a position he held through 1998. In 1999 he brought the Lacrosse Program to Saugerties High School and became the first head coach of the Saugerties Varsity Lacrosse Team.   His teams went on to win several league and sectional titles.   For the youth, he started the SAY-LAX program to teach the sport to the youth of Saugerties. 


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Saugerties Area Youth Lacrosse  
PO Box 985   Saugerties, NY  12477  
845-217-9217  
SAYLAXinfo1@gmail.com