Undefeated UC Santa Barbara retains its hold on the top spot in the WCLA Division I Top 20 this week after adding another impressive win to its resume, defeating No. 11 Cal Poly 13-10. The Gauchos now have 10 victories over ranked opponents this season.

No. 2 Florida Club also picked up a pair of wins over ranked teams this week, defeating No. 14 Central Florida and No. 15 Auburn to raise its record to 8-0. Defending champion Boston College Club, Michigan Club and Clemson Club round out this week’s top five.

The grind. The sacrifices. The sleepless nights and early mornings. The U.S. Men's U20 National Team fought through the toughest competition in the world to reach the ultimate stage — a gold medal rematch with Canada at the World Championship.

Episode seven of Behind the Shield, a seven-part docuseries on the U.S. Men’s U20 National Team, wraps up with the leadup, action and drama from last summer’s world championship game against its archrival in South Korea.
 

Episode six of Behind the Shield, a seven-part documentary on the 2025 U.S. Men’s U20 National Team, gets deep into the on-field action from the World Lacrosse championship in South Korea.

Footage and highlights from pool play games against the Haudenosaunee Nationals and Australia lead into the first playoff game.

But there’s more going on off the field with sights and sounds from the team around Jeju Island. For one player, Jeju Island is a homecoming of sorts.

Hot starts are becoming the norm in Santa Barbara.

Last year, UC Santa Barbara started the season by winning 12 of its first 13 games, eventually advancing to the WCLA national tournament and finishing sixth in the nation with a 15-6 final record.

This spring, the Gauchos are perfect through 13 games and this week, they have taken over as the new No. 1 team in the national Top 20. Their resume certainly justifies their selection, with nine wins against ranked opponents, including No. 5 UCLA, No. 7 Georgia, No. 9 Virginia and No. 10 BYU.

USA Lacrosse and the Intercollegiate Women’s Lacrosse Coaches Association (IWLCA) have announced seven training dates for the 2026 College Player Officials Academy (CPOA), a joint venture between the two organizations designed to recruit and train current and recent college lacrosse players to become the next generation of women’s game officials.

Coinciding with select summer tournaments, the CPOA events provide candidates with hands-on officials' training and live game action to supplement classroom instruction.

Months of preparation – tryouts, training camps, off-the-field work – have led to this moment, the U.S. Men’s U20 National Team heading to South Korea to begin the 2025 World Lacrosse Men’s U20 Championship.

Episode five of Behind the Shield, a seven-part documentary on the U.S. Men’s 20 team, opens with a staging camp in San Diego before the team heads to Jeju Island – the land of waterfalls.

Lacrosse isn't sanctioned in Alabama. Football is king, baseball runs deep, and lacrosse barely exists. So how does a kid from Birmingham end up as the starting goalie for the U.S. U20 Men's National Team?

That's Anderson Moore's story.

Fueled by impressive early season victories, Florida Club has jumped to the top spot in the first WCLA Division I Top 20 ranking of the 2026 regular season.

Ranked eighth in the preseason, the Gators vaulted to No. 1 after a 3-0 showing in the Big Dawgs Classic, highlighted by wins over No. 3 Michigan Club and No. 6 Clemson Club. UF will put its No. 1 ranking to the test with three games in Arizona this week, including a meeting with No. 20 Utah.

Tryouts are over and the final 22 players are onsite at Cornell University for a training camp in Episode Three of Behind the Shield, a seven-part docuseries on the U.S. Men’s U20 National Team’s journey to South Korea for the world championship.

Connor Buczek, an assistant coach for the U.S. men’s team who led Cornell to the national championship just a few weeks before as the Big Red’s head coach, is thrilled to have the players on his own campus. And it also brings back memories from when he helped the U.S. U19 team win the gold medal in Finland as a player.

“He has a desire to be great.”

The words of Rose-Marie Lyght, the mother of U.S. U20 co-captain and Notre Dame defenseman Shawn Lyght, hit home on episode two of Behind the Shield, a seven-part docuseries highlighting the 2025 U.S. Men’s U20 National Team’s journey to South Korea for the World Lacrosse championship.