In 2016, as part of the grand opening for the new USA Lacrosse headquarters in Sparks, Maryland, the national governing body unveiled a 9/11 memorial garden located in the southwest corner of the promenade around Tierney 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. 

Last week, Shelley Sheiner, head coach of the Kean (N.J.) University men’s lacrosse team, toured the National Lacrosse Hall of Fame & Museum with his players. It was his first visit to the museum since its re-location to USA Lacrosse’s new headquarters in 2016, and Sheiner was quite impressed. 

Nevertheless, for good reason, his sentimental devotion will always be to the original museum, adjacent to the Johns Hopkins campus, which he first visited in 1998.