Lacrosse’s return to the Olympics comes in 2028, but the U.S. women’s sixes team will get an early taste of the Olympic flavor when play begins at The World Games in Chengdu, China later this week. The U.S. team roster was selected following a two-day training camp at USA Lacrosse headquarters in Sparks, Md., in June and the team just completed a three-day training camp in Los Angeles before flying to China. Ten of the 12 players on the roster also helped the U.S.

SPARKS, Md. – Head coach Shawn Nadelen and his staff have named the final 22-player roster that will represent the United States in the 2025 World Lacrosse Men’s U20 Championship. The 20-team event takes place from August 15-24 on Jeju Island, Korea. 

SPARKS, Md. — Head coach Lindsey Munday has announced the addition of Ellie Masera to the USA roster for The World Games 2025, a quadrennial Olympic-style event that will feature women’s lacrosse as a championship sport for the third time. The lacrosse competition at The World Games, featuring the sixes discipline, begins on Aug. 7 in Chengdu, China. 

SPARKS, Md. — More than 150 of the nation’s top high school boys’ lacrosse players have accepted their invitations to participate in the USA Lacrosse National Team Development Program National Combine. The combine will take place at USA Lacrosse headquarters from August 4-7. 

The players were invited following a series of regional ID clinics at locations around the country, a virtual application process and from the pool of players that competed on last year’s U.S. Youth National Teams (formerly USA Select). 

SPARKS, Md. — The Atlas Cup, a four-team event with the world’s top lacrosse powers coming to USA Lacrosse headquarters this September, has announced the schedule and it will include an emerging lacrosse power in Puerto Rico alongside the previously announced participants from Canada, the Haudenosaunee Nationals and the United States.

The Atlas Cup features both the men’s and women’s national teams from these four lacrosse powerhouses playing four games per day in the fast-paced sixes discipline of the sport that will utilized in the LA28 Olympics.

SPARKS, Md. — Nearly 175 of the nation’s top high school girls’ lacrosse players have accepted their invitations to participate in the USA Lacrosse National Team Development Program National Combine. The combine will take place at USA Lacrosse headquarters from July 28-31. The players were invited following a series of regional ID clinics at locations around the country, a virtual application process and from the pool of players that competed on last year’s U.S. Youth National Teams (formerly USA Select). 

BEL AIR, Md. – The champions at the 2025 USA Lacrosse Nationals showed there are a lot of ways to win a championship during Wednesday’s action at Cedar Lane Regional Park. 

In the 15U age group, Mass Elite rode its defense to a second straight USA Lacrosse championship. Possession was the key for Yellow Jackets Friedman winning the 14U age group – also its second straight title and Yellow Jackets Babst rode momentum and offense to win the 13U championship.

The event featured more than 700 athletes from 36 club teams competing in 81 games over the two days.

BEL AIR, Md. – Dream big.

That’s the message from USA national team player Ellie Masera to the athletes competing at the USA Lacrosse Youth Nationals at Cedar Lane Regional Park. And she’s saying it specifically to the team she’s helping to coach – Igloo 2030 Arctic Blast in the 13U age group.

More than 700 girls’ lacrosse players from some of the top club programs in the country are competing in the two-day tournament in the 13U, 14U and 15U age brackets. 

In a little more than three years, lacrosse will make its triumphant return to the Olympic Games. With the milestone date approaching, World Lacrosse announced some of the details around the format for lacrosse.

Lacrosse will be held during the second week of the 2028 LA Olympics, with games taking place from July 24–29, at Exposition Park Stadium, home of Major League Soccer’s Los Angeles Football Club. The U.S. women’s sixes team will tour the stadium in early August during a training camp ahead of this summer’s World Games in China.

SPARKS, Md. — The returning champs from a year ago headline the field at the 2025 USA Lacrosse Youth Nationals, which opens on July 15 at Cedar Lane Regional Park in Bel Air, Md. The two-day event features some of the top girls’ club lacrosse programs in the country competing in the 13U, 14U and 15U age divisions in this fully age-verified tournament.