Georgia, Emma, Naomi, Sara and Callie started playing field lacrosse with us in 2021 and Sam joined them shortly afterwards. They were in Grade 8, none had played field lacrosse competitively, only Georgia had played box lacrosse. Our first practice was spent describing how to hold the stick, learn to scoop balls, and how to throw and catch. The absolute basics. After maybe a handful of practices they threw on some terrible gym class pinnies and we threw them into the fire playing real games against experienced teams.