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HEAD COACH DON ZIMMERMAN TO REPRESENT INTERNATIONAL LACROSSE FEDERATION IN ARGENTINA

12/9/2004

Widely recognized as one of this nation’s premier teachers of the sport of lacrosse, UMBC Head Lacrosse Coach Don Zimmerman will travel to Buenos Aires, Argentina to assist in the development of the game in that South American country. Coach Zimmerman departs from Baltimore on Sunday, December 12^th and will return after eight days in Buenos Aires on Tuesday, December 20.

This is not Coach Zimmerman’s first venture in the international development of the sport—in fact, when he returns, the Retriever mentor will have taught the game in four different continents. He has spent time in Great Britain and Japan, and UMBC has hosted Keio University in fall competition in both 2002 and 2004.

Coach Zimmerman and Tom Gill, Head Coach at the United States Merchant Marine Academy, were tabbed by Tom Hayes of the International Lacrosse Federation to head to Argentina, which according to Zimmerman, is in its “initial stages” of developing their program.

“The game of lacrosse is the best game out there and I would love to see it played in the Olympics,” said Coach Zimmerman. “It’s incumbent upon us to introduce and develop the game when opportunities like this occur in order to reach that goal.”

Coach Zimmerman enters his 12^th season at UMBC and 19^th overall as a collegiate head coach in 2005. He earned three national titles with Johns Hopkins University in 1984, 1985, and 1987, and was a 2003 inductee into the Greater Baltimore Chapter of the United States Lacrosse Hall of Fame.