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Men’s and Women’s Team USA Rosters for Champion Challenge

By Lacrosse Playground | December 9, 2011 |
BALTIMORE, Dec. 9, 2011 – US Lacrosse has announced the U.S. national men's and women's senior team rosters for the 2012 Champion Challenge, a US Lacrosse event. Both national teams will face off against top collegiate and international competition at ESPN Wide World of Sports Complex in Lake Buena Vista, Fla., Jan. 27-29. Read More...

Two Proposed Stick-Stringing Rules Withdrawn

By Lacrosse Playground | December 5, 2011 |
BALTIMORE, Dec. 5, 2011 - US Lacrosse has announced that the two proposed rule changes for women's lacrosse approved at the September Board of Directors meeting are being withdrawn. The implementation date for those two rules will be delayed until at least August 2013. Read More...

US Lacrosse Sets Teams, Schedule for 2012 Champion Challenge

By Lacrosse Playground | September 20, 2011 |
BALTIMORE, Sept. 20, 2011 — US Lacrosse has announced the teams scheduled to participate in the 2012 Champion Challenge, a US Lacrosse event at ESPN Wide World of Sports Complex in Lake Buena Vista, Fla., Jan. 28-29. Read More...

Lacrosse Player Lost To 9/11 Is Remembered On The field By Wearing His Number 26

By Lacrosse Playground | September 10, 2011 |
US Lacrosse has made a place to share your stories, tributes, images and remembrances in honor and memory of the victims of September 11, 2001 or those lost in military service to the United States. Among many that lost their lives that tragic day is the story of Donald Robertson. Read More...

Team USA to Play 2011 NCAA Tournament Contenders

By Lacrosse Playground | September 9, 2011 |
BALTIMORE, Sept. 9, 2011 — The 2011 US Lacrosse Stars & Stripes weekend, featuring contests between the U.S. men’s and women’s national senior teams and top division I collegiate competition, moves to Durham, N.C. at Duke University, October 8-9. All weekend events are scheduled to take place on the fields next to Koskinen Stadium. Read More...

USL Partners with ‘Crooked Arrows’

By Lacrosse Playground | July 25, 2011 |
BALTIMORE — US Lacrosse President and CEO Steve Stenersen announced today that US Lacrosse has partnered with the upcoming mainstream lacrosse movie, "Crooked Arrows." In the spirit of classic underdog sports movies like "Hoosiers" and "The Mighty Ducks," "Crooked Arrows" features a Native American high school’s unlikely run to a prep school lacrosse league championship. Read More...

US Lacrosse Names 2012 U.S. Men’s U19 Team

By Lacrosse Playground | July 12, 2011 |
BALTIMORE – After the four-day U.S. men’s national under-19 team tryouts at University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC), July 7-10, US Lacrosse released the 23-man roster that will train to compete in the 2012 Federation of International Lacrosse (FIL) U19 Men’s World Championships in Turku, Finland. Read More...

BRIDGE Lacrosse in Dallas

By Lacrosse Playground | May 13, 2011 |
BRIDGE affiliated programs, in conjunction with US Lacrosse, work collaboratively to introduce and expand the sport of lacrosse in nontraditional and underserved communities to embody diversity of players, coaches, officials and supporters. Take a look into the Dallas program. Keep Reading...

US Lacrosse Names 2011 U.S. Women's U19 Team

By Lacrosse Playground | February 2, 2011 |
BALTIMORE – US Lacrosse announced Tuesday the final 18-player roster for the U.S. under-19 women's national team that will travel to Hannover, Germany, for the 2011 Federation of International Lacrosse (FIL) U19 World Championship in August. Keep Reading...

Video: Madison Acton, U.S. U19 Team

By Lacrosse Playground | February 1, 2011 |
Lacrosse Magazine editor Paul Krome chats up U.S. U19 standout Maddy Acton on making Team USA, her recruiting process and more. Keep Reading...

US Lacrosse Announces 2012 U.S. Men’s National U-19 Team Coaching Staff

By Lacrosse Playground | December 20, 2010 |
BALTIMORE – US Lacrosse announced the U.S. Men’s National U-19 Team coaching staff that at will join recently appointed head coach, Tim Flynn. Jack Crawford, head coach at Loyola Blakefield (Md.) School; Tom Duquette, head coach at Norfolk (Va.) Academy and Tom Rotanz, head coach at Shoreham (N.Y.) Wading River High School were named assistant coaches. Keep Reading...

USL Awards 100 Youth Equipment Grants

By Lacrosse Playground | December 15, 2010 |
BALTIMORE -- One hundred lacrosse organizations in 31 states will receive US Lacrosse Equipment Grants this year. The US Lacrosse Equipment Grant Program, in its twelfth year, is an annual offering of US Lacrosse. Since the inception of the Equipment Grant Program, US Lacrosse has donated equipment to over 400 fledgling lacrosse programs with the retail value of $1,800,000. Keep Reading...