Lacrosse Playground

BALTIMORE — US Lacrosse today announced the television schedule for Champion® Challenge, a US Lacrosse event, set to take place on Sunday, Jan. 27. The U.S. Men’s and Women’s National Teams will be in action against both defending NCAA champions — Loyola University (men’s) and Northwestern University (women’s) — on ESPN3 and ESPNU. All games at the eighth annual Champion® Challenge will take place at the ESPN Wide World of Sports Complex in Lake Buena Vista, Fla. Both games will air live on ESPN3 and later will re-air on ESPNU. Read More…

BALTIMORE, MD, Nov. 26, 2012 – US Lacrosse and Major League Lacrosse today announced that the 2013 Major League Lacrosse Collegiate Draft will take place Friday, Jan. 11, in Philadelphia as part of the 2013 US Lacrosse National Convention, presented by Champion. Read More…

US Lacrosse today announced that 74 schools and civic organizations nationwide have been selected as 2012 Physical Education Equipment Grant recipients and will be receiving “soft” sticks and balls to help support the introduction of the sport in their curriculums. Read More…

BALTIMORE — US Lacrosse today released “US Lacrosse Strategic Plan 2013-15,” a document outlining five areas of strategic priority and associated goals that will guide the operations of lacrosse’s national governing body for the next three years. The US Lacrosse Board of Directors formally approved the strategic plan at its September meeting. Read More…

BALTIMORE — The US Lacrosse Board of Directors today approved the following statement on the complex nature of the collegiate recruiting process for high school student-athletes. Read More…

BALTIMORE – US Lacrosse today announced that 102 teams nationwide have been awarded development grants through the 2012 First Stick Program. This national US Lacrosse initiative is designed to deliver comprehensive resources, equipment, US Lacrosse membership and training for coaches to awarded teams. The program is geared for new and developing youth and high school lacrosse teams nationwide. Read More…

NCAA Rules Committee met earlier this month in Indianapolis to discuss possible adjustments to the college game that would enhance the pace of play. Proposals such as protocol referees will follow, changes to the stick specifications and substitutions made on the fly. But the most unconventional ones involved the face-off and restarts. Ever since the NCAA Rules Committee announced proposals for new rules, many have been expressing real visceral reactions. US Lacrosse is one of them. Read More…

Here’s a fun video of Team USA goalie Zachary Oliveri cuttin’ a rug pregrame of the USA-Canada group play game. Canada won 11-9 in OT. It was the first time Team USA ever lost an international U-19 game. Oliveri is an aspiring DJ. Read More…

US Lacrosse announced that the U.S. Men’s National Team will take on Team Canada in a Sept. 8, 2012, exhibition game at Dick’s Sporting Goods Park in Commerce City, Colo., featuring the top two lacrosse teams in the world. The game will take place at 7:00 p.m. Mountain time. Read More…

BALTIMORE — The 2012 induction class for the National Lacrosse Hall of Fame has been approved by the US Lacrosse Board of Directors. This year’s eight-person class will be officially inducted in a ceremony Saturday, Oct. 20, at The Grand Lodge in Hunt Valley, Md. Read More…