Asking Sarah Bullard McDaniel about her favorite memory as a U.S. national team player is a little like asking a parent who their favorite child is. That’s what happens when nearly a dozen years in the national team program includes four gold medals. Her connection to USA Lacrosse goes back even further as the Massachusetts native represented the New England region three times at the historic USA Lacrosse Women’s National Tournament as a young high school player.

Wheelchair Lacrosse USA (WLUSA), the governing body of wheelchair lacrosse in the United States, is hosting its annual national championship tournament in Milwaukee this week, with the three-day event running from Friday through Sunday.  

Founded in 2010, WLUSA has helped start dozens of wheelchair lacrosse programs across the country, and will have 10 teams gathering this weekend to compete for the 2024 championship.

USA Lacrosse has named a 23-player men’s box lacrosse roster that will represent the United States in the World Lacrosse Box Championships from Sept. 20-29 in Utica, N.Y. A total of 28 men’s teams are competing for the world championship while this year will also mark the inaugural women’s box world championship. The U.S. women’s roster will be announced later this month.

USA Lacrosse will welcome the men’s and women’s national teams from Colombia, Great Britain and Puerto Rico to Indianapolis to compete against the U.S. teams during the international portion of the inaugural USA Lacrosse Experience from Oct. 11-13.

World Lacrosse’s new streaming service, WL TV, will carry all of the action from the World Lacrosse Women’s U20 Championship from Hong Kong, China.

World Lacrosse partnered with leading multisport streaming platform and services provider Sportall earlier this year to deliver WL TV, a custom digital video platform that will offer live and on-demand content to lacrosse fans around the world.  

Head coach Ginny Capicchioni and her staff have named the 32 players invited to training camp later this month who will be vying for a spot on the final roster for the 2024 U.S. Women’s Box Team.

The three-day training camp will be August 23-25 in Utica, New York in preparation for the 2024 World Lacrosse Box Championships, Sept. 20-29, also in Utica. This is the first time that World Lacrosse has hosted a women’s championship in box lacrosse.

OWINGS MILLS, Md. — John Balsamo and Michael McColgan spent this summer playing lacrosse in front of sunscreen-lathered lacrosse coaches taking notes from their camping chairs. It’s showcase season, you see, and as rising high school juniors each of them hopes to hear from some of those coaches come Sept. 1.

This week was different. From the moment they arrived in Baltimore for the USA Lacrosse National Team Development Program Combine, they sensed a greater purpose.

World Lacrosse today announced the passing of a strategic measure to adopt a shot clock in international field lacrosse. The measure was passed via a vote of WL full members, which showed resounding support for the change.

Following a three-week voting period during which 96 percent of eligible members cast a ballot, the measure passed definitively, with 71 percent support. The result was consistent with recent polling of a wider audience conducted via WL social channels, showing 74 percent support in one poll and 90 percent in another.

SPARKS, Md. — Shea Baker (Boston College/Ithaca, N.Y.), Brigid Duffy (Army West Point/Queensbury, N.Y.) and Madison Taylor (Northwestern/Wantagh, N.Y.) have been named captains for the 2024 U.S. Women’s U20 National Team that will compete in the World Lacrosse Women’s U20 World Championship next month in Hong Kong, China.

I started as CEO of USA Lacrosse on August 24, 2021.

When I took the seat, the mandate was to build off the incredible work my predecessor Steve Stenersen had accomplished.  I walked into an organization that was financially sound and had a significant amount of knowledge and experience.

With that said, we were still coming out of the COVID-19 pandemic. Return to play and return to business were uncertain.