After graduating from Sachem North High School, Evan Bloom played both lacrosse and football at Dartmouth. He was voted the lacrosse teams Blue Collar Award in 2012 and 2014, as well as the Inaugural Class of 1980 award in 2014.

During his playing days, Evan led the football team in tackles his junior year as a reserve defensive back. On the lacrosse field, he was an impact player for the Big Green.

Upon graduating Dartmouth in 2014 – Evan commissioned as a 2nd Lieutenant in the United States Marine Corps. Evan is currently assigned to Naval Air Station Pensacola where he is training as a student naval aviator. We could not be more proud of Evan!

A big thanks to Evan’s dad, David Bloom, for sharing all of Evan’s accomplishments!

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Happy #WhiteBoardWednesday and #HAPPYEARTHDAY!

Here are the Top 5 Foods for Athletes that are grown in the Earth:

1- Bananas

2- Pineapples

3- Avocados

4- Nuts

5- Beans

Now get outside and enjoy #EarthDay!

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Each Year, Newsday comes out with a list of the Top 100 lacrosse players on all of Long Island. FLG is proud to say that 18 out of the 100 players went through the FLG Lacrosse Program!

Below is the list of those 18 players and where they are playing in school next year.

Keep up the great work! #Studletes #FLG #FLGLAX #FLGlacrosse

Thomas Wright (#39 LSM on the right) is a senior at Garden City High School. Thomas will be going on to play collegiate lacrosse at Penn State next year

Matt Borges – Garden City ’15 – Ohio State – ‘19

*Ryan Bray – SWR ’15 – Cornell ‘19

Jack Brennan – Chaminade ’15 – Colgate ‘19

Alex Concannon – Syosset ’15 – Johns Hopkins ‘19

Nicky Ferrero – Port Washington ’16 – Committed to UMASS ‘20

*Jack Fowler – Chaminade ’15 – Duke ‘15

Brendan Kearns – Chaminade ’15 –Colgate ‘19

*Kevin Kelly – Chaminade ’15 –Villanova ‘19

Brian Lang – Hicksville ‘15 –Ohio State ‘19

Michael Laviano – St Anthonys ’15 – Boston University ‘19

*Joseph Licciardi – St Anthonys ’15 – Penn ‘19

Brogan Mahon – Chaminade ’15 – Amhearst ‘19

*Nick Spillane – Carey ’15 – Penn State ‘19

James Sullivan – Garden City ’15 – Harvard ‘19

Jack Tigh – Chaminade ’15 – Yale ‘19

Jared Warner- Baldwin ‘15 – Penn ‘19

Ryan Winkoff – Cold Spring Harbor ’15 – Binghamton ‘19

Thomas Wright – Garden City ’15 – Penn State ‘19

*Played on the FLG Committed Team only

Happy Motivational Monday

Happy Motivational Monday everybody! #Success #Failure #CourageToContinue #FLG #FLGLAX #Motivational Monday

As an athlete, you learn that injuries are a part of sports. Learning how to bounce back from an injury is crucial for your athletic career and the team you play for. FLG Alumni, Stephen Jahelka, is a great example of an athlete who knows how to deal with adversity. From the moment Stephen tore his Achilles a few weeks ago, Stephen has been improving individually and has been helping his team get better from the sidelines. Stephen was kind enough to share with us his list of the Top 5 Ways an injured athlete can #LeadFromTheSidelines

• Get Healthy!: The best way to help your team is to focus all your effort on getting healthy. The faster you get fully healthy, the faster you get back onto the field. So crush your rehab with the same effort and intensity you would put into a game. The training room is your field under the lights!!
• Keep everyone on the sideline enthusiastic and into a game: A fired up and rowdy bench can energize guys on the field.
• Communicate what you see during the game and practice: Having a different perspective and angle from the sidelines may allow you to see things that players on the field aren’t (open looks, how other team’s plays develop, etc.)
• Keep getting better: However you can, keep getting better. Whether its core, lunges, extra cardio with your trainer, show your teammates you are getting after it by working around your injury and going just as hard as they are in practice on top of your own rehab. This is also a great time to watch some film and identify some areas of your own game you plan to work on when you get back, if you are too physically limited to work on them right now. 
• Don’t let your injury change who you are: Despite being sidelined, you are still a part of the team! Act and lead as if you were still playing, whether its getting on guys at practice, making pregame speeches or reacting with emotion after big plays.

FLG would like to thank Stephen for sharing his Top 5 ways injured players can #LeadFromTheSidelines

In Stephen’s first game back on the sideline’s for Harvard, they upset the Cornell Big Red in a thrilling 1 goal game! Video highlights of the game and Stephen leading from the Harvard sideline can be seen below!

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