To commemorate 25 years of Darlington Lacrosse, the boys varsity team will hold an alumni-team match in conjunction with its annual end-of-the-season team banquet on April 25.
The special anniversary gathering is free for all alumni and current players to attend, and is hosted by the varsity lacrosse team.
The celebration will begin with a match between the varsity team and alumni on Darlington's lacrosse field at 11 a.m. Showers and a changing area will be provided inside the A.J. Huffman ('67) Memorial Athletic Center.
Following the game, lacrosse alumni and members of the team are invited to the varsity boys' end-of-the-season banquet cookout at the farm of Doug and Tammie Braden at 1:30 p.m.
On Saturday night at 6 p.m., the lacrosse team and alumni will come together again to cheer on the Rome Braves as they play the Augusta Greenjackets at State Mutual Stadium. Individual tickets can be purchased by clicking here.
Darlington’s lacrosse program was founded in the fall of 1990 by former AP Chemistry teacher Hyuk Kim and then-Assistant Admissions Director Norwood Teague, now the director of athletics for the University of Minnesota.
Darlington’s three lacrosse teams comprise the oldest program in the state of Georgia.
“Darlington started the lacrosse trend in Georgia and there are now nearly 100 schools playing the sport in the state,” said Gordon Hight (’94), Darlington’s director of lacrosse. “Over that time, lacrosse has been and remains the fastest growing sport in America; national participation in lacrosse has tripled in the last decade.”
Hight was a freshman on Darlington’s first team and started all four years as an attackman.
