Our next guest, a NILCA Hall of Fame Coach from St. Anne's Belfield (STAB) in Charlottesville, VA, Doug Tarring, hails from Baltimore, MD where he played his high school lacrosse at the perennial powerhouse St. Paul's School. 

In Part I of our interview Coach Tarring describes what it was like growing up with a wooden lacrosse stick as a companion (he started playing in the 1st grade) in a family and a city where lacrosse factored in, in a major way.   

This southern gentleman gracefully takes us down the road to the University of Virginia, the site of his academic and athletic endeavors. There he would participate, as a history major, a four year starter, and a two time national champion, in 1970 and 1972, for the Wahoos. 

Next, Coach Tarring explains what the high school landscape was like in central Virginia, across the eastern seaboard, and in central New York where a powerhouse was being built in the Syracuse, NY area, back when he started coaching at STAB in 1973. 

Part I is full of interesting stories and encounters with legends like Coach Mitchell of St. Paul's School (a legendary All American at Johns Hopkins) and Coach Buddy Beardmore at UVA (who would go on to be one of the greatest coaches of all time at the University of Maryland). Both men would become USA Lacrosse Hall of Famers. Coach Tarring also offers a fantastic take on the keys to overcoming adversity and winning a national championship which dovetails nicely into our Mindset Minute.  This is an episode you'll want to dig right into! After you listen, please leave a review, thanks!!

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