As coach of the Towson University (then Towson State) women’s lacrosse team throughout the 1970s and into the 80s, Maggie Faulkner had an ‘impossible catches’ practice drill that she liked to utilize with her players. She would throw the ball at players at nearly impossible angles, knowing that they would only be able to complete a successful catch once in every four or five attempts. A strong failure factor was built into the exercise.

USA Lacrosse is working with several organizations, including Let Her Play and the Positive Coaching Alliance, to help support an initiative that is part of ESPN’s Take Back Sports youth sports movement. This particular initiative is located in the Greater Boston area and is aimed at inspiring current women’s college lacrosse players, or recent graduates, to become coaches at the youth level.

Kristin Sommar Jenney didn’t do much losing during her high-profile lacrosse career.

She won four national championships (and lost just five games) during her time at Maryland, and she won a gold medal with the U.S. Women’s National Team in 2001. Somehow, though, her final game ended without a victory celebration.

In 2005, she and the U.S. team earned a silver medal after losing to Australia in the championship final on home soil in Annapolis, Md. For someone with such decorated career, Jenney didn’t go out on top.

SPARKS, Md. – Head coach Acacia Walker-Weinstein has invited 25 of the nation’s best women’s lacrosse players to a U.S. Women’s National Field Team training camp in the Austin, Texas area. The camp is set for Jan. 4-7, 2026.

This will be the final evaluation opportunity before Walker-Weinstein and her staff select the 22-player roster to represent the United States in the 2026 World Lacrosse Women’s Championship. The 16-team championship takes place this summer from July 24 through August 2 in Tokyo.

SPARKS, Md.  –  The USA Lacrosse Women’s Collegiate Lacrosse Associates (WCLA) national championship event is moving to Naples, Florida in 2026, with all games to be played at the Paradise Coast Sports Complex. Dates for the 2026 championship tournament are May 12-15.

This marks the first time in the 25-year history of the WCLA event that the championship tournament will be hosted in Florida.

USA Lacrosse is teaming up with Halpern Travel as the Official Housing Partner for USA Lacrosse and the U.S. National Teams. Halpern Travel will provide seamless stays for USA Lacrosse members at our events around the country and help fulfill the housing needs for the 14 USA national teams, allowing the nation’s best players to compete and train at a peak level.

Tom Flatley, head coach of the 1982 U.S. men’s national team that won the world lacrosse championship, and later, general manager of the U.S. U19 men’s team from 1988-2008, is a legendary coaching figure on Long Island -- as a football coach.

He is recognized by many as one of Long Island’s most successful high school football coaches ever, having recorded 264 varsity wins over a span of 25 years at Garden City High School, with 18 Nassau County championships and five Long Island championships.

SPARKS, Md. – USA Lacrosse has announced the first clinic locations for the 2026 cycle of its National Team Development Program. The regional ID clinics are part of the first phase of the NTPD and are followed by national combines and then international competition as part of the U.S. Youth National Teams.

Sometimes you don’t know where life is going to take you.

If Sam Geiersbach hadn’t torn her ACL her sophomore year in 2018 at Richmond and if COVID hadn’t cancelled the 2020 season, she probably never would have gotten a bonus graduate school year at North Carolina in 2022. 

That year turned out to be magical. She scored the final four goals of the game in UNC’s epic come-from-behind win over Northwestern in the NCAA semifinals and then scored three goals in the title game victory over Boston College to earn NCAA Championship Most Outstanding Player honors.

When Christie Jenkins Kemezis received a phone call from Maryland head coach Cathy Reese, she thought they were just going to discuss some “things, Terps, this and that.” What Reese really wanted to discuss: Jenkins Kemezis’ induction into the National Lacrosse Hall of Fame.

“I was surprised,” Jenkins Kemezis said.”I'm completely honored, just knowing how many amazing players are out there, before me, after me, with me.”