USA Lacrosse is teaming up with Halpern Travel as the Official Housing Partner for USA Lacrosse and the U.S. National Teams. Halpern Travel will provide seamless stays for USA Lacrosse members at our events around the country and help fulfill the housing needs for the 14 USA national teams, allowing the nation’s best players to compete and train at a peak level.

There’s not much that Crista Samaras hasn’t accomplished in the lacrosse world.

She was a three-time collegiate All-American attacker at Princeton, a two-time Ivy League Player of the Year, and graduated in 1999 ranked first on both the school's career goals list (189) and career points list (270). She then played on two U.S. World Cup teams, winning gold in 2001 and silver in 2005.

Tom Flatley, head coach of the 1982 U.S. men’s national team that won the world lacrosse championship, and later, general manager of the U.S. U19 men’s team from 1988-2008, is a legendary coaching figure on Long Island -- as a football coach.

He is recognized by many as one of Long Island’s most successful high school football coaches ever, having recorded 264 varsity wins over a span of 25 years at Garden City High School, with 18 Nassau County championships and five Long Island championships.

SPARKS, Md. – USA Lacrosse has announced the first clinic locations for the 2026 cycle of its National Team Development Program. The regional ID clinics are part of the first phase of the NTPD and are followed by national combines and then international competition as part of the U.S. Youth National Teams.

Sometimes you don’t know where life is going to take you.

If Sam Geiersbach hadn’t torn her ACL her sophomore year in 2018 at Richmond and if COVID hadn’t cancelled the 2020 season, she probably never would have gotten a bonus graduate school year at North Carolina in 2022. 

That year turned out to be magical. She scored the final four goals of the game in UNC’s epic come-from-behind win over Northwestern in the NCAA semifinals and then scored three goals in the title game victory over Boston College to earn NCAA Championship Most Outstanding Player honors.

Tickets are now on sale for the National Lacrosse Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony, hosted by USA Lacrosse on Saturday, January 10, 2026 at the M&T Bank Exchange in Baltimore, Maryland.

All tickets must be purchased online in advance. Walk-ups will not be accepted and tickets will not be sold at the door.

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Melody Sauceda understands the plight of the underserved. Growing up as a Native American who is Ma-chis Lower Creek, Apache and Mexican, she had personal experience as a kid who didn’t always feel like she belonged.

Now living in Sante Fe, New Mexico, she didn’t want that same ‘outside looking in’ experience for her two high school-aged daughters as well as other Native youth who were drawn to lacrosse.

“When my kids came home one day and they said they wanted to join lacrosse, I said ‘you guys do know that's an Indigenous sport, right?’” 

When Christie Jenkins Kemezis received a phone call from Maryland head coach Cathy Reese, she thought they were just going to discuss some “things, Terps, this and that.” What Reese really wanted to discuss: Jenkins Kemezis’ induction into the National Lacrosse Hall of Fame.

“I was surprised,” Jenkins Kemezis said.”I'm completely honored, just knowing how many amazing players are out there, before me, after me, with me.”

Kyle Michelsen is a native of Kaufman, Texas, a rural community located 30 miles southeast of Dallas. It’s where he was born, where he grew up, and where he returned to be a middle school teacher after graduating from Tarleton State University in 2017.

It was also in this small Texas community that Michelsen initially discovered the game of lacrosse as a youth, and now, the place he is hoping that he can help other kids do the same thing.

The Intercollegiate Women’s Lacrosse Coaches Association’s annual Presidents Cup tournament is back this weekend in Florida.

The Presidents Cup & Debut will feature more than 500 teams and more than 10,000 athletes rostered. The tournament, held in Lakewood Ranch, Fla., is a key stop each year on the recruiting trail for coaches, as it coincides with the IWLCA Coaches’ Convention.

It’s also a key stop for the U.S. Women’s National Team as it prepares for the 2026 World Lacrosse Championship in Tokyo, Japan.