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SPARKS, Md. – The U.S. Women’s National Team will participate in this month’s Intercollegiate Women’s Lacrosse Coaches Association Presidents Cup in Florida. The Presidents Cup & Debut will feature more than 500 teams with an expected 10,000 athletes rostered.
In conjunction with this year’s National Celebrate Lacrosse Week, USA Lacrosse is proudly recognizing volunteers from across the country who are helping to grow the game on the grass roots level. Each day, we will profile someone who makes a positive difference in their community. Join us as we celebrate local lacrosse heroes from coast-to-coast!
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Name: David Drehoff
Local Lacrosse Organization: Lake Nona Youth Sports
Location: Orlando, Florida
Coaching girls is more than just skills development - it's about creating an environment where they feel empowered, confident, and supported to reach their full potential.
With an eye on helping to keep youth girls and young women engaged with lacrosse, USA Lacrosse is pleased to launch a new partnership with Coaching HER – a free resource available to USA Lacrosse member coaches and officials.
USA Lacrosse announces Audrey Canata of West Springfield, Mass. and Tiffany Kelley of Columbus, Ohio as the recipients of 2025 Michael Breschi Scholarships.
Established in 2007 to honor the life and memory of Michael Breschi, son of University of North Carolina men’s lacrosse head coach Joe Breschi, the scholarships are awarded annually to two high school seniors who are attending college and are the son or daughter of a coach who serves as a full-time employee of an educational institution.
Jim Potter made his mark repeatedly throughout his lacrosse career, one that started at the Gilman School in Baltimore. He earned All-America honors twice at the University of Virginia, where the Cavaliers shared the USILA National Championship with Johns Hopkins and Navy his senior year in 1970.
That wasn’t the end of the lacrosse career for the former Virginia captain.
“There was no such thing as pro lacrosse, so you were playing club lacrosse and just having a blast – having a great time playing with the guys,” Potter said.
SPARKS, Md. – Following the highly-successful debut of the inaugural Atlas Cup, the dates for the 2026 edition have been set. USA Lacrosse will once again host some of the top men’s and women’s international teams in sixes competition at its headquarters from October 23-25, 2026. (Note date change from original announcement of Oct. 2-4).
SPARKS, Md. – The USA Lacrosse National Team Development Program has set the dates for its national combines for the 2026 cycle. The national combine is the second of three phases for the program, which begins with regional tryouts and concludes with competition for the U.S. Youth National Teams against international competition.
Unbeknownst to many of today’s lacrosse fans, well before the United States began its domination of international women’s lacrosse, which now extends through four decades and includes winning nine of 11 world championships since 1982, the teams from the other side of the Atlantic reigned supreme.
Under the sponsorship of the United States Women’s Lacrosse Association (USWLA), one of the precursors to USA Lacrosse, the first U.S. squad travelled abroad in 1935, competing against established club teams during a tour in England.
Rosalia ‘Ro’ Gioia, a 2004 inductee into the National Lacrosse Hall of Fame who spent more than 50 years helping to develop and support lacrosse in New York, has passed away. She was 94 years old and the second oldest living member of the Hall of Fame.
Gioia was a longtime club player, a high school coach, spent over 50 years officiating high school lacrosse and more than 30 years officiating at the collegiate level. Lacrosse was one of five sports in which Gioia was a nationally rated official, along with basketball, volleyball, softball, and track.