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GoPro Footage of the 25th Annual NIU Tournament

By Lacrosse Playground | November 20, 2012 |
The Naperville Apaches defeated Wisconsin, Illinois, and Northern Michigan to claim first place at the 25th annual NIU Tournament in Dekalb. The video highlights the Naperville Apaches' enthusiasm for the game at the tournament. Overall, it was a fun event enjoyed by all. Read More...
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Illinois Wesleyan Adds Men’s and Women’s Lacrosse

By Lacrosse Playground | September 20, 2012 |
BLOOMINGTON, Ill. - Illinois Wesleyan University has announced that it will add the intercollegiate sport of lacrosse with a men's team beginning competition in the spring of 2014 and the women's team opening the following spring. Read More...
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New Wave Lacrosse Announcements

By Lacrosse Playground | July 9, 2012 |
Illinois lacrosse company, New Wave Lacrosse, has just announced tryouts for their 2012/2013 Fall/Winter Club Team with new uniforms by ProAthletics. New Wave teams will be attending and competing in a number of tournaments. The Adrenaline Challenge in San Diego and the Paradise Shoot-Out in Naples, Florida, are a couple of the events on the schedule. Read More...

New Wave Lacrosse Commercial Goes Viral

By Lacrosse Playground | June 11, 2012 |
New Wave Lacrosse has unleashed a new, high-resolution viral video. After only a few days on the web, the video has gained a lot of ground reaching over 10 thousand views thus far. The video, itself, shows the transformation of a young lacrosse player into an accomplished, driven collegiate contender. Read More...

Illinois State Lacrosse 2012 Highlight Reel, Looking for a New Coach

By Lacrosse Playground | May 22, 2012 |
The Illinois State Lacrosse team just finished editing their 2012 season video. They compete in the GRLC of D1 MCLA. The team is focused on growing the club to its full potential. In order to do that, they knew the best possible route was to make a promotional video. Read More...

Game Highlights: DC Area and Illinois High School Lacrosse

By Lacrosse Playground | May 3, 2012 |
Catch a ton of high school lacrosse coverage on the other side. We have highlights from all over the DC area, as well as action from an Illinois game. Read More...

Spreading the Gospel of Lacrosse this Easter Season

By Lacrosse Playground | April 9, 2012 |
It's no surprise that two Catholic schools would collaborate on spreading the gospel of lacrosse at the end of the Easter season. Providence College was scheduled to play Big East Conference foe Notre Dame on Saturday April 7. At a coaches convention in December, Friars coach Chris Burdick spoke with Drew Stevenson, an assistant coach at Brother Rice High School, when Burdick wondered if Providence needed a practice facility to use. Read More...

Retail Spotlight: New Wave Lacrosse Online Store Launches

By Lacrosse Playground | March 16, 2012 |
The New Wave Lacrosse online store launched today. The Store features apparel from Nike, Under Armour, Omega and Warrior, with custom prints and New Wave Logo embroideries on different styles ranging from Dri-Wick Shirts, Track Jackets, Hoodies, Shooters, Sublimated Shorts, Cotton Tees and Long Sleeves. Included are several pictures of items offered at New Wave. Read More...

New Wave Lacrosse Apparel

By Lacrosse Playground | March 9, 2012 |
The good people at New Wave Lacrosse in Illinois let us in on a secret. They will be dropping new merch very soon on their website. Here are two shirts they will offer. The two colorways feature their logo with the state of Illinois outlined in the background. Read More...

A New Beginning Part 1: Our Story

By Lacrosse Playground | February 14, 2012 |
Everyone’s heard the classic story of the underdog. Well that’s us, The Schaumburg High School lacrosse team. After finishing dead last in the state of Illinois’s class A. Finishing the season 3-13 and being a joke to every other school. We sucked and we knew it, we even had our coach tell us mid-season this would be his last year coaching us. I have nothing but respect for our former coach because he wasn’t a lacrosse guy and he knew it. Read More...

True Lacrosse Announces 2012 Illinois All State Team

By Lacrosse Playground | January 10, 2012 |
January 2nd, True Lacrosse held their inaugural Illinois State All Star Team tryout for Freshman, Sophomore, and Junior teams. They had over 400 players attend the event, and to ensure a fair evaluation they enlisted the help of the PreGame Lacrosse Evaluators. Read More...

The Big Freeze 2011 – New Wave Lacrosse

By Lacrosse Playground | January 2, 2012 |
New Wave Lax is a premiere, high caliber and high quality organization in Illinois Lacrosse. The club just wrapped up their 2011 Big Freeze Tournament in fashion. Awesome competition from the 5th/6th Grade Division complemented the highlights on display from the Men's "Open" Division. Read More...