Katie O’Donnell always knew her 2025 lacrosse season was going to start in New England. It’s just going to happen a little sooner than expected.

O’Donnell, the head women’s lacrosse coach at Drexel, will take her Dragons’ squad to Storrs, Conn., to play at Connecticut on Feb. 8. But first, she’s got some personal business to take care of.

The U.S. Women’s Field National Team will hold a training camp in Chestnut Hill, Mass., from Jan. 7-9, 2025 and head coach Acacia Walker-Weinstein has invited 36 players to the camp. This will be the second camp led by Walker-Weinstein, who was named the program’s head coach earlier this year.

The U.S. team will hold one more training camp at USA Lacrosse headquarters in Sparks, Md., ahead of the Pan American Lacrosse Association Women’s Continental Qualifier, which will be held in Auburndale, Fla., in June 2025.

SPARKS, Md. — USA Lacrosse has named the 44 players that will compete with the U.S. Women’s Senior National Team during the Intercollegiate Women’s Lacrosse Coaches Association Presidents Cup from Nov. 22-24 in Florida.

This will be the first training camp and competition for the U.S. women’s team since Acacia Walker-Weinstein was named the program’s head coach earlier this year. The U.S. team is building towards the 2026 World Lacrosse Women’s Championship that will be held in Japan.

SPARKS, Md. — USA Lacrosse and head coach Acacia Walker-Weinstein have named the staff for the U.S. Women’s Senior National Team that will represent the United States in the 2026 World Lacrosse Women’s Championship in Japan. Melissa Lehman, Kayla Treanor and Devon Wills will serve as assistant coaches and Jennifer Kent will be the team operations administrator.

USA Lacrosse has announced that Tim Corrigan, Fielding Jamieson, Jennifer Russell and Gina Thomas have been named to its Board of Directors. Each of the four began two-year terms on August 1.

Corrigan is an Emmy winning VP of Production focused on NBA and all professional basketball on ESPN/ABC. The Charlottesville, Va., native a 1986 graduate of Notre Dame where he was a three-year letterwinner for the Irish in lacrosse.

Asking Sarah Bullard McDaniel about her favorite memory as a U.S. national team player is a little like asking a parent who their favorite child is. That’s what happens when nearly a dozen years in the national team program includes four gold medals. Her connection to USA Lacrosse goes back even further as the Massachusetts native represented the New England region three times at the historic USA Lacrosse Women’s National Tournament as a young high school player.

World Lacrosse today announced the passing of a strategic measure to adopt a shot clock in international field lacrosse. The measure was passed via a vote of WL full members, which showed resounding support for the change.

Following a three-week voting period during which 96 percent of eligible members cast a ballot, the measure passed definitively, with 71 percent support. The result was consistent with recent polling of a wider audience conducted via WL social channels, showing 74 percent support in one poll and 90 percent in another.

Athletes Unlimited launches its fourth season of professional women’s lacrosse this Thursday, July 18, beginning a four-week run on Tierney Field at USA Lacrosse headquarters in Sparks, Md. through August 11.

AU’s final roster of 56 players, set last week, features many of the world’s best players, including two-time reigning AU champion Taylor Moreno, recent collegiate stars Charlotte North, Izzy Scane and Ally Mastroianni, two-time world champions Marie McCool and Meg Douty, and three-time AU medalist Sam Apuzzo.

USA Lacrosse and Gait Lacrosse have announced a three-year extension of the partnership between the two organizations that was originally signed in 2020. Gait Lacrosse wiil serve as an Official Equipment Supplier for the U.S. Women’s National Team Program through 2027.

Gait’s sponsorship includes four women’s national teams – the senior and U20 field teams, the. Box team and the sixes teams. All four will compete for World Lacrosse championships during the term of the agreement, beginning with the U20 team this August in Hong Kong, China.

USA Lacrosse has announced that two-time U.S. gold medalist Acacia Walker-Weinstein has been selected as the U.S. Women’s Senior National Team head coach. Walker-Weinstein’s appointment will run through the 2026 World Lacrosse Women’s Championship, which will be held in Japan.