The Nanaimo Senior B Lacrosse Timbermen will share marketing and business resources with the Junior A Hockey Clippers in a new partnership (WCSLA)

By NanaimoNewsNOW Staff

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NANAIMO — The Senior B Timbermen lacrosse team have been thrown a lifeline and will hopefully have a more solid future in Nanaimo.

Staff from the Nanaimo Clippers Junior A hockey team will take over Timbermen management for their upcoming season.

Timbermen general manager Shawn Swanson told NanaimoNewsNOW the team was in rough shape heading into 2020.

“We were probably a month or two away from going to the public and saying if more people didn’t step up to help us out there wouldn’t be a team next year.” _{Shawn Swanson}

Swanson said it was the Clippers who approached the Timbermen with options about moving forward.

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The move transitions the Timbermen from a volunteer-run organization to one with full-time business operations and marketing resources.

“For myself and the people who have been running this team for the last nine years, to have that management background with the Clippers and them stepping up and helping us out that way allows us to focus on lacrosse. They can help us out with management and getting more people in the stands.”

The partnership will also allow the current staff, all of whom are being retained for next season, to focus on the product on the floor.

“We’ve been competitive in our league but haven’t been super competitive on a national level outside of 2018 [when the team hosted nationals]. We’re hoping this is an extra push to not only get to President’s Cup, but also winning a national championship.”

The Timbermen are three-time regular season champions, most recently in 2018 when the team finished second at the national championships.

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