As a young athlete, Rich Thomson played six different sports through his middle school and high school years. Lacrosse was not one of them.

He didn’t discover the Creator’s Game until adulthood, but it’s now a passion. As evidence, Thomson has co-founded two separate youth leagues in Wisconsin over the past 10 years.

Motivated initially by his young daughter’s interest in the game, Thomson helped launch the Kimberly Area Lacrosse Association in 2016. The youth program serves both boys and girls, and has added high school varsity and JV squads in recent years.

Marie McCool, the Most Valuable Player of the women’s lacrosse competition at The World Games 2025 in Chengdu, China, has been named as one of 30 individuals nominated for The World Games Athlete of the Year 2025.

As the son of a high-level NCAA Division I men’s lacrosse coach, it’s not surprising that Matt Danowski gravitated to the sport. Growing up on Long Island while his father, John, was coaching at Hofstra, lacrosse was a regular part of his life. But so were other sports.

As coach of the Towson University (then Towson State) women’s lacrosse team throughout the 1970s and into the 80s, Maggie Faulkner had an ‘impossible catches’ practice drill that she liked to utilize with her players. She would throw the ball at players at nearly impossible angles, knowing that they would only be able to complete a successful catch once in every four or five attempts. A strong failure factor was built into the exercise.

The community of Port Washington, located on the North Shore of Long Island, understands the important role that athletics can play in shaping the development of its youth.

Since 1963, the Port Washington Youth Activities (PYA) organization has played a central role in providing year-round playing opportunities for local youth, with sports offerings ranging from baseball to wrestling, from field hockey to lacrosse.

USA Lacrosse is working with several organizations, including Let Her Play and the Positive Coaching Alliance, to help support an initiative that is part of ESPN’s Take Back Sports youth sports movement. This particular initiative is located in the Greater Boston area and is aimed at inspiring current women’s college lacrosse players, or recent graduates, to become coaches at the youth level.

Kristin Sommar Jenney didn’t do much losing during her high-profile lacrosse career.

She won four national championships (and lost just five games) during her time at Maryland, and she won a gold medal with the U.S. Women’s National Team in 2001. Somehow, though, her final game ended without a victory celebration.

In 2005, she and the U.S. team earned a silver medal after losing to Australia in the championship final on home soil in Annapolis, Md. For someone with such decorated career, Jenney didn’t go out on top.

“He’s got rope!”

Leif Elsmo’s trademark call is familiar to so many that watched lacrosse in its early decades on television. He was the voice of lacrosse and broadcasted 24 straight NCAA Championships, along with countless college, Major Indoor Lacrosse League and National Lacrosse League game in his career. He also compiled and produced the only weekly national lacrosse highlight show for 20 years.

SPARKS, Md. – Head coach Acacia Walker-Weinstein has invited 25 of the nation’s best women’s lacrosse players to a U.S. Women’s National Field Team training camp in the Austin, Texas area. The camp is set for Jan. 4-7, 2026.

This will be the final evaluation opportunity before Walker-Weinstein and her staff select the 22-player roster to represent the United States in the 2026 World Lacrosse Women’s Championship. The 16-team championship takes place this summer from July 24 through August 2 in Tokyo.

SPARKS, Md.  –  The USA Lacrosse Women’s Collegiate Lacrosse Associates (WCLA) national championship event is moving to Naples, Florida in 2026, with all games to be played at the Paradise Coast Sports Complex. Dates for the 2026 championship tournament are May 12-15.

This marks the first time in the 25-year history of the WCLA event that the championship tournament will be hosted in Florida.