Carolina Miners is the boys travel program of the Carolina Lacrosse Association — built in Huntersville, played in Huntersville, coached by people who live here. Tryout-based travel rosters by grad year. Real schedules. Real standards. A staff that knows your kid's name before he picks up a stick.
Miners is a destination — not a placeholder. Boys come here because they want to be coached hard, play real teams, and see themselves get better on a schedule they can feel.
We're tryout-based and grad-year built. We add a second team within a grad year when our numbers and level of play support it — never to fill space. We don't pad rosters, don't promise playing time, and don't dress every game like a participation event. We compete, we develop, and we treat the boys like athletes worth investing in.
Some boys play Fall only. Some play Summer only. Some bundle both. Some want a stick in their hand every month of the year — and want to do it without leaving Lake Norman. Miners is built for all of them.
3 practices per week · 18 practices total · 3 regional tournaments. Tryout-based teams, A and B when roster size allows.
3 practices per week · 24 practices total · 4 regional tournaments. The big developmental push of the year — same travel roster as Fall.
~12 training sessions. Positional work and speed at Huntersville-area venues. Skip it entirely if your son is hooping or wrestling.
~6 training sessions. Skill work that runs around the high school and middle school spring seasons — school ball comes first.
Fall and Summer are the core. Winter and Spring sit on top, priced separately (~$300/season) — same coaching staff, same fields, no contract.
Tryouts aren't a stick-skill drill. Six things shape every roster decision — same six, every grad year, every season.
Stickwork, shooting, dodging, defense — position-specific fundamentals.
Speed, agility, body control, and the ceiling we see in the player.
Reading the field, off-ball movement, decision-making under pressure.
Loose-ball mentality, recovery on defense, willingness to do the hard stuff.
Receives feedback, applies it on the next rep, lifts teammates up.
How the player rounds out the roster Miners is putting together for the year.
Miners coaches are head and assistant coaches at the high schools and middle schools your sons already play against. Same fields. Same standards. Same staff, every team — Fall, Summer, Winter, and Spring.
Team assignments by grad year announced ahead of the season — pre-register for tryouts to be the first to know.
Two nights in Huntersville · July 14 & 15 · R.C. Bradford Park. Free to attend. Pre-registration required through the CLA tryout page.