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Published on: 5/10/2009
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Dugan has U of S program on verge of breaking out
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But there's just something about Kevin Dugan that makes you think it's going to better than big here.
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The man who hired him, University of Scranton athletic director Toby Lovecchio, says Dugan is a "relentless" and "aggressive" recruiter of better lacrosse talent than the school had ever dreamed of landing in the past.
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In so many ways, Dugan isn't about turning around a lacrosse program, or even about coaching one.
He's about everything that coaching should be.
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"I always knew the lacrosse program here was a sleeping giant," said Dugan, a former player at Notre Dame and assistant coach at Yale.
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You may ask how Dugan could see the possibilities here, when so few others did.
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But to rally his team, Kevin Dugan wrote it a letter.
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When the times are toughest, when you've just been embarrassed and it's time to answer the questions, Dugan believes it's character that prevails.
That's why he spends as much time trying to build character as he does trying to build an indomitable lacrosse machine.
During spring break last year, the team went on a trip to Colorado together.
This year, the players had games scheduled - so they stayed on campus and went out to dinner together, went to movies together, went bowling together.
This summer, Dugan will bring a group of students to hand out lacrosse sticks in Africa.
Then, he'll do the same through a school service trip to the ghettos of Kingston, Jamaica.
And when he's done with that, he'll fly to Paris to lead a three-day clinic through the International Lacrosse Federation.
They went on a retreat together, too.
The first night, they were split into teams, and Dugan had them see who could build the strongest bridge out of newspaper and tape, using two-liter soda bottles to see who did the best.
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"The plan for Scranton Youth Lacrosse is for them to be Mini-Me's, if you will, of our team," Dugan said.