USA Lacrosse is working with several organizations, including Let Her Play and the Positive Coaching Alliance, to help support an initiative that is part of ESPN’s Take Back Sports youth sports movement. This particular initiative is located in the Greater Boston area and is aimed at inspiring current women’s college lacrosse players, or recent graduates, to become coaches at the youth level.

Kristin Sommar Jenney didn’t do much losing during her high-profile lacrosse career.

She won four national championships (and lost just five games) during her time at Maryland, and she won a gold medal with the U.S. Women’s National Team in 2001. Somehow, though, her final game ended without a victory celebration.

In 2005, she and the U.S. team earned a silver medal after losing to Australia in the championship final on home soil in Annapolis, Md. For someone with such decorated career, Jenney didn’t go out on top.

“He’s got rope!”

Leif Elsmo’s trademark call is familiar to so many that watched lacrosse in its early decades on television. He was the voice of lacrosse and broadcasted 24 straight NCAA Championships, along with countless college, Major Indoor Lacrosse League and National Lacrosse League game in his career. He also compiled and produced the only weekly national lacrosse highlight show for 20 years.

SPARKS, Md. – Head coach Acacia Walker-Weinstein has invited 25 of the nation’s best women’s lacrosse players to a U.S. Women’s National Field Team training camp in the Austin, Texas area. The camp is set for Jan. 4-7, 2026.

This will be the final evaluation opportunity before Walker-Weinstein and her staff select the 22-player roster to represent the United States in the 2026 World Lacrosse Women’s Championship. The 16-team championship takes place this summer from July 24 through August 2 in Tokyo.

SPARKS, Md.  –  The USA Lacrosse Women’s Collegiate Lacrosse Associates (WCLA) national championship event is moving to Naples, Florida in 2026, with all games to be played at the Paradise Coast Sports Complex. Dates for the 2026 championship tournament are May 11-16.

This marks the first time in the 25-year history of the WCLA event that the championship tournament will be hosted in Florida.

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.

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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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.