AMHERST, Mass. — Playing on its home turf, the Massachusetts/Rhode Island continued its run of success at the USA Lacrosse Women’s National Tournament with all four of its entries winning their respective division, including bringing home the Val Walchak Trophy for capturing the top flight for the fifth time in the last seven years.

The 92nd annual USA Lacrosse Women’s National Tournament will take place at the University of Massachusetts this weekend from May 24-25. The event features approximately 900 of the nation’s top high school girls’ lacrosse players competing on 45 teams, representing 28 states and the District of Columbia. Games will be streamed live on USA Lacrosse TV.

SPARKS, Md. – The schedule for the 2025 World Lacrosse Men’s U20 Championship on Jeju Island, Korea is out and the United States will open play with a battle against longtime rival Canada on August 16. The event, featuring 20 nations playing a total of 62 games, will be contested from Aug. 15-24. 

SPARKS, Md. – Following an extensive review of similar entities in the athletic space, USA Lacrosse has announced the structure of the Lacrosse Equipment Council (LEC). The formation of the LEC was announced in late 2024 and the group will focus on the development, evaluation, and selection of standards and testing protocols to certify lacrosse equipment while monitoring and assessing the impact of equipment on player performance and safety. 

SPARKS, Md. – Head coach Shawn Nadelen and his staff have invited 32 players to a training camp ahead of the 2025 World Lacrosse Men’s U20 Championship. The world championship will be held in Seoguipo, South Korea on Jeju Island from August 15-24, 2025. 

SPARKS, Md. – The World Games, a multi-sport Olympic style event run by the International World Games Association, has announced the women’s lacrosse schedule for the 2025 event slated for this summer in Chengdu, China.

The U.S. will be in Pool B alongside Australia, Czechia and Ireland. Pool A will be comprised of Canada, China, Great Britain and Japan. Pool play games will take place from August 7-9, followed by the semifinals on August 10 and the championship on August 11.

Back in mid-February, Boston College Club opened the 2025 season with trip south to play in Georgia’s Big Dawgs Tournament. The host Bulldogs handed the Eagles a season-opening 16-8 loss, one of 12 games this season in which Georgia’s high octane offense scored 15 goals or better.

Friday in Wichita, the teams met again in the national semifinals of the USA Lacrosse WCLA championship tournament, and this time, a suffocating BC defense limited Georgia to its lowest scoring output of the year as the Eagles prevailed, 9-6.

Last year, CSU San Marcos arrived in Wichita as the number one seed in the USA Lacrosse WCLA tournament’s Division II bracket, advanced to the national semifinals, and got steamrolled, falling 12-2 to eventual D-II champion Vermont.

One year later, the Cougars faced a similar scenario.

Once again, CSUSM arrived at this week’s WCLA championship tournament as the top seed and easily made its way into the semifinal round. But this year, the Cougars had clear intentions on rewriting the ending to the script.

SPARKS, Md. – USA Lacrosse has added a location in Ohio to its lineup of boys’ Regional ID Clinics for the 2025 National Team Development Program.

USA Lacrosse will host a Regional ID Clinic for U17 and U19 boys on June 30 at the Don Shula Sports Center on the campus of John Carroll University in University Heights, Ohio. The location is one of 12 sites for the ID clinics this cycle.

A long opening day, hampered throughout by steady rain and showers, eventually saw most of the top seeded teams advance at the USA Lacrosse WCLA championship tournament Wednesday in Wichita.

Six of the top eight Division I seeds were victorious, moving into Thursday’s national quarterfinals. The only two that didn’t advance were felled in one-goal losses.