SPARKS, Md. – USA Lacrosse has added two locations in California to its lineup of Regional ID Clinics for the 2025 National Team Development Program.

USA Lacrosse will host Regional ID Clinics for U17 and U19 boys and girls in the San Jose and San Diego areas. The San Jose clinics will be held on April 26 at St. Francis High School in Mountain View, Calif. The San Diego clinics are set for April 27 at San Diego State University.

SPARKS, Md. – Due to extensive interest in its newest age grouping, USA Lacrosse has added two additional locations for its U15 National Team Development Program Regional ID Clinics.

USA Lacrosse will host Regional ID Clinics for U15 boys and girls in Philadelphia and Rochester, N.Y. The Philadelphia clinics will each be held on June 1 at Steelyard Sports in King of Prussia, Pa., and the Rochester clinics will be held on June 23 at RIT.

World Lacrosse has announced that Tokyo will be the host city for the 2026 World Lacrosse Women’s Championship. Japan was earlier announced as the host country, but additional details have been finalized and the event will be held from July 24 through August 2 in Tokyo.

This will be the first world lacrosse championship hosted by Japan since 1997 when the U.S. women edged Australia to bring home the World Cup in the Edogawa ward of Tokyo.

SPARKS, Md. – Registration for the USA Lacrosse Regional ID Clinics, the first phase of the National Team Development Program leading to U.S. Youth National Teams, is now open. There are currently 10 sites confirmed for girls and nine sites for boys for Regional ID Clinics at the U17 and U19 age groupings and three sites for the new U15 age group. Virtual applications are also accepted for all age groups and additional site locations will be announced in the coming weeks.

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.

National Lacrosse Hall of Fame member Dave Urick, who won 10 national championships as head coach at Hobart and built Georgetown into a national power, died on Tuesday.

After helping Hobart to three national championships as an assistant coach in the 1970s, Urick was co-head coach of the Statesmen in 1979 and took over as head coach in 1980. He led the Statesmen to the inaugural NCAA Division III championship in 1980 and proceeded to win 10 straight championships before leaving in 1990 to take over as the head coach at Georgetown.

By most accounts, Paul Rabil is one of the most decorated and accomplished players in modern lacrosse history. He has won multiple collegiate, professional and world championships and in the process, garnered so many individual awards that it’s easy to lose track.

Deservedly, he is being inducted into the National Lacrosse Hall of Fame on January 11 as a truly great player.

SPARKS, Md. – The USA Lacrosse National Team Development Program (NTDP) is set to expand in 2025 with a U15 age bracket included in the program.

Launched in 2019, the NTDP has been a big success in opening up the pipeline for the U.S. National Team Program. Each year, approximately 1,500 high school-aged players participate in the various stages of the program, culminating with USA Youth National teams competing against international competition.

SPARKS, Md. – Atlas Restaurant Group will be the presenting sponsor for the 2025 National Lacrosse Hall of Fame Post-Ceremony Reception and the USA Lacrosse Alumni Reception. Both events will take place in Baltimore on Jan. 11, 2025 with the alumni reception event at the Waterfront Hotel in Fells Point and the Hall of Fame reception at The Choptank in Fells Point.

The Waterfront Hotel and The Choptank are among the Atlas Restaurant Group’s more than 50 properties spread across five states.