For a lacrosse player, there’s no higher calling than pulling on the red, white and blue. In the summer of 2024, nearly 80 of the nation’s best young men took their shot at that dream, fighting for a place on the 2025 U.S. Men’s U20 National Team.

A behind-the-scenes look at that journey begins now.

As a coach, you may assume that your role is to protect athletes from failure, make the decisions that you feel are in the best interest of the team, and generally keep the team’s results steady. But viewing your role in this way may be holding your young athletes back from finding their true potential and from the important growth that comes from taking risks and occasionally failing.

Board-certified family physician and TrueSport expert Deborah Gilboa, MD, is sharing ways that coaches can help athletes take (safe) risks, make their own decisions, and live with the consequences.

For the San Francisco Riptide Lacrosse Club, a non-profit, volunteer-led organization teaching the sport of lacrosse, it’s very important that they get all the “Littles’ things right.

For the leadership of the Riptide, that means placing the highest priority on the quality of the instruction and skill development for its youngest club members, the participants in the ‘Kindercrosse’ division. The club is so committed to this philosophy that it annually assigns some of its best coaches to its youngest members.

For one weekend each year, the seaside community of Santa Barbara, located on the central California coast, becomes the epicenter of lacrosse as women’s collegiate club teams from around the country arrive for three days of sun, fun and intense competition.

SPARKS, Md. – Behind the Shield, a seven-part docuseries chronicling the 2025 U.S. Men’s U20 National Team’s journey to Korea for the World Lacrosse championship, is set to premiere next week. The official trailer for the docuseries dropped today.

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colorado, USA – The qualification path for lacrosse to the Olympic Games Los Angeles 2028 is set, with next year’s World Lacrosse Sixes Championships to serve as the primary qualifier for the sport’s return to the Olympic stage.

USA Lacrosse went back to school this year and the grade is looking A plus.

For the 2025-26 school year, USA Lacrosse launched a pilot program in four states – California, Colorado, Ohio and New York – that brings its new physical education kit to school teachers to help them introduce the sport to new players.

Defending WCLA Division I national champion Boston College Club is kicking off its title defense the right way as the No. 1 team in the WCLA Division I Preseason Top 20. 

UCLA, national champion in 2024 and national runner-up in 2025 after losing in overtime to the Eagles in last year's championship game, checks in close behind at No. 2, followed by Georgia, Clemson and UC Santa Barbara, respectively. 

The United Sports Collective – representing leading Olympic sport governing bodies – has secured Range as its first-ever partner. This landmark collaboration with Range, an all-in-one wealth management platform for high-income households (making over $300,000 per year) across America, brings expanded financial solutions to members of USA Lacrosse, USA Cycling, USA Fencing, and US Rowing. As part of the partnership, Range is named the Official Wealth Partner of the United Sports Collective and a Proud Partner of USA Lacrosse.

The USA Lacrosse Rules Committee and the National Federation of State High School Associations (NFHS) have announced the boys’ high school rule changes and points of emphasis for the 2026 season. USA Lacrosse writes and publishes a stand-alone youth rule book for ages 14U and below, and works in collaboration with the NFHS on the rules for boys' high school lacrosse.

Four primary points of emphasis were identified for the upcoming season.