BEL AIR, Md. – The champions at the 2025 USA Lacrosse Nationals showed there are a lot of ways to win a championship during Wednesday’s action at Cedar Lane Regional Park. 

In the 15U age group, Mass Elite rode its defense to a second straight USA Lacrosse championship. Possession was the key for Yellow Jackets Friedman winning the 14U age group – also its second straight title and Yellow Jackets Babst rode momentum and offense to win the 13U championship.

The event featured more than 700 athletes from 36 club teams competing in 81 games over the two days.

In the heart of Brooklyn, where basketball courts outnumber grassy fields and subway rides replace minivan drop-offs, a lacrosse revolution has quietly unfolded.

The Brooklyn Crescents Lacrosse Club, co-founded by Wes Jackson and now led by executive director Jen Nardi, has spent nearly two decades transforming a sport often associated with suburban privilege into a powerful force for community, equity and opportunity in New York City.

BEL AIR, Md. – Dream big.

That’s the message from USA national team player Ellie Masera to the athletes competing at the USA Lacrosse Youth Nationals at Cedar Lane Regional Park. And she’s saying it specifically to the team she’s helping to coach – Igloo 2030 Arctic Blast in the 13U age group.

More than 700 girls’ lacrosse players from some of the top club programs in the country are competing in the two-day tournament in the 13U, 14U and 15U age brackets. 

In a little more than three years, lacrosse will make its triumphant return to the Olympic Games. With the milestone date approaching, World Lacrosse announced some of the details around the format for lacrosse.

Lacrosse will be held during the second week of the 2028 LA Olympics, with games taking place from July 24–29, at Exposition Park Stadium, home of Major League Soccer’s Los Angeles Football Club. The U.S. women’s sixes team will tour the stadium in early August during a training camp ahead of this summer’s World Games in China.

The National Federation of State High School Associations has announced boys’ and girls’ high school rules changes that will be implemented for the 2026 season. The changes were proposed during rules committee meetings last month and subsequently approved by the NFHS’s board of directors. USA Lacrosse collaborates with the NFHS on the rules for high school boys' and girls' lacrosse. 

What is “clipping?”

No, it’s not another lacrosse term like crease crank, yard sale or wheels — and it’s also not a phrase your enthusiastic parent will scream from the bleachers. There’s a new phenomenon taking the youth girls’ lacrosse space by storm, and it’s all about quietly spreading positivity.

SPARKS, Md. — The returning champs from a year ago headline the field at the 2025 USA Lacrosse Youth Nationals, which opens on July 15 at Cedar Lane Regional Park in Bel Air, Md. The two-day event features some of the top girls’ club lacrosse programs in the country competing in the 13U, 14U and 15U age divisions in this fully age-verified tournament.

SPARKS, Md. — The world’s top lacrosse powers are coming to USA Lacrosse headquarters this fall for The Atlas Cup, an international event showcasing the sixes format of the game that will be utilized for the LA28 Olympics. The United States will welcome top international lacrosse teams, including the men’s and women’s teams from Canada and the Haudenosaunee Nation, from Sept. 26-28 for three days of intense competition.

Last week, USA Lacrosse announced its annual high school player awards, including the Jackie Pitts Award that recognizes senior players who go above and beyond in service to their team, school, and community. These athletes truly honor the game of lacrosse by investing in the development of the game, by serving as exemplary teammates, and by being role models within their school community.

MedStar Health and USA Lacrosse have partnered to produce a new series of articles and podcasts on health, wellness and performance.

“Lacrosse Health” will feature subject matter experts in these areas, as well as coaches, skills professionals, researchers, social scientists and leaders from the lacrosse community.