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USA Lacrosse Wichita

Wichita to Host USA Lacrosse National Championship Event in 2025

The USA Lacrosse Women’s Collegiate Lacrosse Association national championship is returning for the second straight year to Wichita, Kansas from May 7–10, 2025, at the Scheels Stryker Sports Complex. Nearly 150 non-varsity collegiate teams comprise the WCLA and compete under the USA Lacrosse umbrella. The annual Division I and Division II National Championships feature 16 […]

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WLL

Premier Lacrosse League Launches Women’s Lacrosse League

The Premier Lacrosse League will launch the Women’s Lacrosse League at the 2025 PLL Championship Series, featuring four teams playing in the Olympic Sixes format. The WLL is the PLL’s largest investment in women’s lacrosse to date. In 2020, the PLL created Unleashed, a women’s lacrosse content and training platform which has helped over 1,000 […]

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USA Lacrosse

Indianapolis to Host Inaugural USA Lacrosse Experience

USA Lacrosse will welcome the men’s and women’s national teams from Colombia, Great Britain and Puerto Rico to Indianapolis to compete against the U.S. teams during the international portion of the inaugural USA Lacrosse Experience from October 11–13. The international competition will utilize the new sixes discipline that will be used in the 2028 Olympic […]

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Box Lacrosse Oneida

World Lacrosse Partners with Turning Stone Resort Casino

Turning Stone Resort Casino in Verona, New York, has joined the upcoming 2024 World Lacrosse Box Championships as an official event partner and will host four games at the Mary C. Winder Community Center, the Oneida Indian Nation’s new 90,000-square-foot community center. The September 20–29 world championship event will including 133 games played with 38 […]

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PLL Kayak

PLL Partners with Kayak for League Travel

The Premier Lacrosse League powered by Ticketmaster has partnered with travel search partner Kayak, as the official travel partner of the the league. The league will be the first professional sports organization to book its league and corporate travel through Kayak for Business – Kayak’s platform for simplified corporate travel. “We pride ourselves on bringing the worlds’ best lacrosse players […]

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Premier Lacrosse League

2024 Premier Lacrosse League Championship Game Heads to Philadelphia

The Premier Lacrosse League’s playoffs this season will be held throughout the East Coast with Boston, Long Island and Philadelphia selected to host the quarterfinals, semifinals and championship rounds. The quarterfinals will be September 2 at Gillette Stadium in Boston before the September 8 semifinals at Shuart Stadium at Hofstra University in Long Island, New […]

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World Lacrosse Championships

World Lacrosse Chooses Korea and Japan for Championship Events

World Lacrosse will have three upcoming world championships in the Far East with the 2025 Men’s U20 Championship officially awarded to South Korea and the 2026 Women’s Championship and 2027 Men’s Championship awarded to Japan. “We are thrilled to award these championships to Korea and Japan, two of our model members that are both ready […]

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Lacrosse Native Americans
Lois Garlow of the Haudenosaunee Nationals lacrosse team heads toward the sideline during a match against Canada at the World Games in Birmingham, Alabama, in 2022. Members of the Haudenosaunee are hopeful they will have a chance to play the sport their people invented when lacrosse returns to the Olympics in 2028 in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Paul Newberry)

White House Supports Indigenous Lacrosse Team for 2028 Olympics

A push to allow the Haudenosaunee Nationals to compete as its own team in lacrosse at the 2028 Olympic Summer Games in Los Angeles received a major endorsement when President Joe Biden announced Wednesday at the White House Tribal Nations Summit a push to allow the Indigenous nation that invented lacrosse to play under its own […]

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WCLA Lacrosse

Women’s Collegiate Lacrosse Associates National Championship Headed to Wichita

The 2024 USA Lacrosse Women’s Collegiate Lacrosse Associates Division I and II National Championships will be played at the Scheels Stryker Sports Complex in Wichita, the championship’s first-ever appearance in Kansas. “We’re so pleased to be moving this special event to a new venue like the Scheels Stryker Sports Complex and being able to bring […]

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PLL 2024 Season

PLL Announces City-Based Model for 2024

The Premier Lacrosse League will switch to a city-based format, announcing eight teams that will be attached to host cities for the league. Since its inception, the league has featured a touring model where teams all play in one location per week. But after evaluating fan voting, broadcast viewership, historical ticketing performance, public census data […]

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