So May must find sponsors from the local business community. Tucson business leader Jim Click donated the use of a van to transport the team to several Phoenix games this season. For other games, parents pack the teens into SUVs to get them to the fields.
Parents also provide transportation to and from practices after school five times a week.
While May has one eye on the upcoming championship, he has the other on fresh faces. The new batch of Gamecocks will begin practicing in September for the 2002 season. May will hold a teaching camp for those youths who want to see what lacrosse is all about. That's when we get them off the ground. He is the son of James N. English of Yonkers, N.Y., and Maxine D. English of Tucson.