As a longtime coach with Shaker Heights Youth Lacrosse, and more recently, as president of its leadership board, Matt Kelly has continually been surprised by the lack of diversity within the program. At best, the number of minority participants has been less than 10-percent annually.

That figure is all the more surprising to Kelly given that Shaker Heights has traditionally been one of the most diverse communities among the suburbs around Cleveland, Ohio. That diversity has just never been mirrored on the lacrosse field.

Alfie Jacques, the legendary Onondaga Nation stickmaker who handcrafted more than 80,000 wooden lacrosse sticks during his lifetime, died Tuesday after a nearly decade-long bout with kidney cancer and other ailments. He was 74. 

Shawn Maloney, USA Lacrosse's Mountain Regional Manager, joined the disabled community after he broke his back in a hiking accident. That incident began his journey to Adaptive Lacrosse.
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It was a little after midnight and Shawn Maloney was face down in the sand along the remote bluffs overlooking the Pacific Ocean in Northern California. He was injured and he couldn’t move.

The following article is part of a content partnership with TrueSport, a positive youth sports movement powered by the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency (USADA). TrueSport has partnered with more than 20 sport NGBs to promote a positive culture of youth sport with expert content and programming.

The following article is part of a content partnership with TrueSport, a positive youth sports movement powered by the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency (USADA). TrueSport has partnered with more than 20 sport NGBs to promote a positive culture of youth sport with expert content and programming.

If you’re reading this article, you likely want to start improving the diversity, equity, and inclusion on your team or at your school, but you’re simply not sure how or where to begin. There’s no better time than April, which is officially recognized as Celebrate Diversity Month.

USA Lacrosse will host the Next Collegiate League (NCL) for the second straight year on Tierney Field at the organization’s headquarters in Sparks, Md.

The NCL, an innovative league using a Sixes format with HBCU men’s lacrosse teams from the Mid-Atlantic region, played one round of games at USA Lacrosse last year, but will play its entire 2023 schedule at the facility.

The 2023 season begins this Sunday, April 2 at 11 a.m. with an eight-game schedule for the day.

Roberson Middle School in Houston, Texas is not your typical public school.

As a “school of choice” in the Spring Independent School District, students must submit an application, pass an audition/interview, and have teacher recommendations just to be considered. Those who meet the requirements then enter into a lottery for selection.

This year marks the 25th anniversary of USA Lacrosse. To celebrate, we’re revisiting some of our favorite magazine stories of the USA Lacrosse era on the 25th of each month. This story ran in the September 2014 issue of the magazine.

YES, CANADA DEFEATED THE U.S. on American soil.

But the enduring legacy of the 2014 world lacrosse championship — USA Lacrosse hosted 38 nations, a record at the time — was that for the first time ever a team from Africa competed on the international stage.

TEEING OFF ON THE 18TH HOLE at the Village Club of Sands Point, Rodney Dumpson had one of those rare moments when the world makes perfect sense.

The private golf course had lush greens and breathtaking views of Hempstead Harbor and the Manhattan skyline. A wealthy Long Island enclave, the Sands Point peninsula inspired the fictional East Egg of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s “The Great Gatsby” a century ago.

It’s also just a stone’s throw from the Port Washington public housing project where Dumpson grew up.

Tina Sloan Green is one of the most influential figures in the history of women’s lacrosse. First Black player on a U.S. national team. Three national championships as the head coach at Temple. Induction into the National Lacrosse Hall of Fame.

Given that legacy, it shouldn’t have been a surprise that a promising Black high school lacrosse player wound up at Temple just a few years after Sloan Green’s coaching career ended. But Nicole Ross Burris’ path to Philadelphia came about completely on her own, although Sloan Green ended up having a major influence on her experience.