National Teams
SPARKS, Md. — USA Lacrosse has named Steven Brooks, Mark Glicini, Michael Gongas and Drew Snider as the boys’ coaches for the 2023 USA Select teams. Brooks and Snider will coach the U18 team and Glicini and Gongas will coach the U16 team.
SPARKS, Md. — Following three days of intense tryouts featuring nearly 100 of the best women’s lacrosse players in the country, head coach Kelly Amonte Hiller has named 42 players to the 2024 U.S. Women’s U20 Training Team.
SPARKS, Md. — A little less than four years ago, Kelly Amonte Hiller won a world championship on the lacrosse field — this time as a coach.
SAN DIEGO — The youngest player on the U.S. men’s national team turned out to be its steeliest.
Brennan O’Neill, the 21-year-old college player on a team of pros, scored five goals Saturday to lead the United States to a 10-7 victory over rival Canada in the gold medal game of the World Lacrosse Men’s Championship at Snapdragon Stadium.
SAN DIEGO — For the 10th time in the 56-year history of the World Lacrosse Men’s Championship, it will come down to Canada and the United States for the gold medal.
The U.S. (6-0) remained unbeaten in San Diego, defeating Australia 11-2 in the semifinals Thursday at Snapdragon Stadium.
Michael Sowers (pictured) and Ryan Conrad each contributed two goals and an assist among eight different scorers. They’ve scored in every game of the tournament, as has midfield mate Charlie Bertrand.
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SAN DIEGO — Rob Pannell (pictured) surpassed National Lacrosse Hall of Fame attackman Mark Millon as the all-time leading scorer in U.S. Men’s National Team history, as the United States cruised to a 19-3 victory over Israel in the World Lacrosse Men’s Championship quarterfinals Wednesday at the University of San Diego’s Torero Stadium.
SAN DIEGO — The defending world champion and top-seeded United States will play Israel in the 2023 World Lacrosse Men’s Championship quarterfinals Wednesday at the University of San Diego’s Torero Stadium. The game is at 10 p.m. Eastern/7 p.m. Pacific and will be televised nationally on ESPNU/ESPN+.
VOORHEES, N.J. — “We don’t need lights – we’ll be the light.”
That was the message from U.S. women’s box head coach Ginny Capicchioni during Sunday’s player ID camp at the Philadelphia Wings Training Center, the second of three such events Capicchioni and her staff are conducting to help determine invites for the team’s September training camp in Utica, N.Y.
SAN DIEGO — Rob Pannell (pictured) had four goals and three assists and the vaunted United States defense finished four minutes shy of its first-ever shutout in a world championship, as the Americans wrapped up pool play with an 18-1 victory over England in the World Lacrosse Men’s Championship at the University of San Diego’s Torero Stadium.