Adaptive Lacrosse

Inclusive Lacrosse is designed to include players with a wide variety of disabilities. Any athlete with a disability may participate with appropriate support. Inclusive Lacrosse is often played in a station-based clinic format on natural grass, synthetic turf, or basketball court depending on the accessibility needs of the athletes.

Unified Lacrosse is designed to allow athletes with disabilities to play alongside their non-disabled peers. Unified Lacrosse is often played by neurodivergent athletes and athletes with other cognitive or developmental disabilities in a station-based clinic or small-sided game format.

Wheelchair Lacrosse is designed for athletes with disabilities that affect their mobility. Games are played 7v7 on a solid surface roller hockey rink using a no-bounce lacrosse ball and box lacrosse goals. A non-contact 3v3 version may also be played on a basketball court. Teams are often mixed gender and mixed ability. The same sport wheelchairs that are used for wheelchair basketball may also be used for wheelchair lacrosse.  LEARN MORE

Impairment-specific formats are designed to allow athletes with similar disabilities to participate alongside and against each other. Some examples of impairment-specific formats include programs for athletes with amputations/limb differences, vision impairments, and hearing impairments.

Athletes with disabilities can and do participate in typical or “mainstream” formats of lacrosse at all levels of play—from youth to the pros. Anyone with the desire and ability to play a mainstream format of lacrosse with reasonable accommodations should be allowed to do so.