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Sound Bites: Interview with new Ithaca High School Girls Lacrosse Coach BJ Bliss



By Tim Donnelly
ESPN Ithaca

 

Recently on ESPN Ithaca’s Between the Lines, host Tim Donnelly spoke with Ithaca High School Girls Lacrosse Coach BJ Bliss. Bliss is getting set to enter his first season helming the Little Red program. Here is a snippet of that conversation; to hear the full interview, visit ESPN Ithaca’s on-demand PodCenter at ESPNIthaca.com.

 

Tim Donnelly: As you take over the Little Red Girls Lacrosse program, what are the first things on your to-do list?

BJ Bliss: Well, the first thing, honestly, is to take this group of players and really produces some great on the field action. Take them to another spot. They are a wonderful group of ladies to work with, they are immensely talented and I’ve told people in the past that when I took over this program that I was left in a very good spot. They’re very talented, they were well coached. My staff and I are looking to kind of grow upon that and take them to that next piece of their playing careers, both locally with our league and sectionals and then hopefully on to States and things of that nature.

 

TD: That’s exciting, when you start throwing around the words ‘States’ and ‘Sectionals’ and ‘taking the next step’ in preseason, that, to me, means you must really like what you see on the field. How much interaction have you had with them as a coach/player?

BB: You know, this whole process started last Fall and trying to work with their club teams, which is three or four different club teams, and getting a knack for what they could do and some of their positions and trying to maintain that and keep some kind of continuity going with some schemes and things like that, that they were used to on the club level and then bringing that over, obviously, onto the scholastic level to develop these student athletes into #1 the best lacrosse player they can be, and then obviously, #2, an even better person when they leave this program after their senior year.

 

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Listen to Between the Lines with Tim Donnelly from 4-6 p.m. weekdays on ESPN Ithaca (1160 AM/107.1 FM) and ESPNIthaca.com.

 

 

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