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When you think of Hawaii, you think of gorgeous beaches, beautiful weather and surfing. You don’t necessarily think about lacrosse.

In 2003, Rudie Schaefer was determined to change that. Why couldn’t lacrosse, the fastest-growing sport on the mainland, be brought over to the nation’s only island state?

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It’s a classic Iowa story with a modern twist.

If you build it, they will come … even if it’s socially distanced.

W.P. Kinsella wrote “Shoeless Joe,” the novel that became “Field of Dreams,” while studying at the Iowa Writers Workshop in Iowa City.

Matt Dunn rarely tweets.

He doesn’t feel comfortable weighing in or spouting off opinions online. His handle (@imdunntweeting) even hints at his reticence on the social media platform.

But after what he described as probably the scariest moment of his life, the reigning Premier Lacrosse League Defensive Player of the Year and U.S. national team member refused to stay silent late last month.

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When Courtney Flanagan took over the Texas Chapter of USA Lacrosse last year, she held true to one value at the core of  her engagement with the sport — service.

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The only thing that separates the city of La Crosse, Wisconsin and the sport of lacrosse is a space and the capitalization of the letter C.

This small difference may seem inconsequential to most, but not Dr. Kenneth Lee, who wouldn’t be leading the Marquette Eagles wheelchair lacrosse program had it not been for the discrepancy.

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Matthew Dalon is more familiar with barriers than most.

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The Jersey Girls Lacrosse Association felt a hole in its heart when Laura McCarthy died of cancer in November 2017. She was 58. The annual Jersey Jamboree has helped to preserve McCarthy’s legacy.

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Don Wilson knew Dalond Bidonne had potential from the first time that he met the then seventh-grade boy in his school gym in Bridgeport, Connecticut.

Sean Quirk believes you become what you surround yourself with.

If that’s the case, then the Cannons Lacrosse Club will become a blend of veteran leaders who are some of the most recognizable names in the game, arguably the world’s best player and a nucleus of young talent that made waves last summer. That balance is by design.

“I love where we are with the roster and what we’ve built up to this point,” Quirk said.

Jimmeh Koita’s timing was perfect. 
 
Late in the fourth quarter of the CAA championship game against Hofstra, the fifth-year senior fired on the whistle. In fractions of a second, he pinched and popped the ball straight to himself to secure possession. In doing so, Koita also sealed the Dragons’ first conference tournament title and NCAA tournament bid since 2014.