Coaching girls is more than just skills development - it's about creating an environment where they feel empowered, confident, and supported to reach their full potential.  

With an eye on helping to keep youth girls and young women engaged with lacrosse, USA Lacrosse is pleased to launch a new partnership with Coaching HER – a free resource available to USA Lacrosse member coaches and officials. 

USA Lacrosse announces Audrey Canata of West Springfield, Mass. and Tiffany Kelley of Columbus, Ohio as the recipients of 2025 Michael Breschi Scholarships.

Established in 2007 to honor the life and memory of Michael Breschi, son of University of North Carolina men’s lacrosse head coach Joe Breschi, the scholarships are awarded annually to two high school seniors who are attending college and are the son or daughter of a coach who serves as a full-time employee of an educational institution.

SPARKS, Md. – Following the highly-successful debut of the inaugural Atlas Cup, the dates for the 2026 edition have been set. USA Lacrosse will once again host some of the top men’s and women’s international teams in sixes competition at its headquarters from October 2-4, 2026.

SPARKS, Md. – The USA Lacrosse National Team Development Program has set the dates for its national combines for the 2026 cycle. The national combine is the second of three phases for the program, which begins with regional tryouts and concludes with competition for the U.S. Youth National Teams against international competition.

Rosalia ‘Ro’ Gioia, a 2004 inductee into the National Lacrosse Hall of Fame who spent more than 50 years helping to develop and support lacrosse in New York, has passed away. She was 94 years old and the second oldest living member of the Hall of Fame.

Gioia was a longtime club player, a high school coach, spent over 50 years officiating high school lacrosse and more than 30 years officiating at the collegiate level. Lacrosse was one of five sports in which Gioia was a nationally rated official, along with basketball, volleyball, softball, and track.

SPARKS, Md. – The Brogden Cup, a six-team event featuring the U.S. U17 and U19 Youth National Teams competing against their counterparts from the Haudenosaunee Nationals and Team Ontario, will be held at USA Lacrosse headquarters this weekend from Oct. 24-26.

The National Lacrosse Hall of Fame, a program of USA Lacrosse, announces the addition of eight new inductees as the members of the Class of 2025.

The 2025 inductees are: Ned Crotty, Matt Danowski, Leif Elsmo, Maggie Faulkner, Tom Flatley (posthumous), Christie Jenkins Kemezis, Crista Samaras, and Kristin Sommar Jenney.

Vin Savastano is proud to say that lacrosse is his family’s unofficial business.

As a lifelong resident of Westchester County in New York’s Hudson Valley region, Savastano was primarily a baseball and football player in his youth, but lacrosse was never far off his radar since his father, Vin Sr., was a lacrosse coach and longtime physical education teacher at Yorktown High School.

The U.S. Men’s National Team will begin the run-up to the 2027 World Lacrosse Men’s Championship in field lacrosse with a training camp this weekend (October 17-19) at USA Lacrosse headquarters in Sparks, Md. This will be the first training opportunity for the U.S. men’s field team since Seth Tierney was named the head coach of the program in April 2024.

The U.S. men’s sixes national team will be back in action for the second time in three weeks when it competes at the World Lacrosse Super Sixes event in Oshawa, Ontario from Oct. 10-12. The U.S. went 2-1 at the Atlas Cup in late September, beating the Haudenosaunee Nationals and Puerto Rico while losing to Canada.