US Lacrosse and its Youth Council honored a local educator and coach for her service to youth lacrosse on January 14 at the Fifth Annual US Lacrosse Youth Council Awards Breakfast, held during the US Lacrosse National Convention in Philadelphia. The 2005 Coach of the Year, Chery Webb, was also honored for her 40 years of dedication to the sport.

According to Youth Council executives, "Cheryl Webb is the girls athletic director at the Green Vale School in New York and since 1963 has coached field hockey and lacrosse at the independent school, which has students from pre-k to ninth grade. She has encouraged and touched the lives of hundreds of players through her involvement at Green Vale, but her reach goes beyond the school. She started the Glen Cove P.A.L. program for players in third through sixth grade and has been instrumental in expanding playing opportunities for players through travel leagues, summer camps and tournaments at the school. She was inducted into the US Lacrosse Long Island Chapter Hall of Fame in 1995 and the Glen Cove Hall of Fame in 2000. In 2003, she was named the Nassau County Athletic Director of the Year."

"Chery Webb's national recognition is certainly an honoring of her, and therefore of our school. Her commitment to the sport of lacrosse, to each player's growth and to character building is truly inspirational," added Stephen H.Watters, Headmaster of The Green Vale School.