Matt DaSilva

US Lacrosse has invited nearly 300 high school-age (U15 and U17) athletes from 27 states to compete in the first-ever National Team Development Program Combine Aug. 19-23 at its headquarters in Sparks, Md.

Divided into separate three-day sessions for boys and girls, the combine will include on-field, strength and conditioning, recruiting and sport psychology training.

Lax Sports Network announced Tuesday that all 81 games of the World Lacrosse Women’s U19 World Championship — including U.S. preliminaries against Australia, England and Canada and four rounds of playoffs — will be broadcast on its digital platforms.

This article appears in the May/June edition of US Lacrosse Magazine as part of a series on community-based lacrosse leagues that are thriving despite the growing trend toward privatization in youth sports. Don’t get the mag? Join US Lacrosse to start your subscription.

Four-time defending world indoor lacrosse champion Canada defeated the United States 19-6 in the Heritage Cup revival Saturday at First Ontario Centre in Hamilton, Ontario.

Curtis Dickson scored four goals, Shawn Evans and Ryan Benesch each added two goals and three assists, and Canada’s big-bodied defenders frequently forced the U.S. to settle for perimeter shots. Goalie Brandon Miller, a reserve on Canada’s gold-medal winning team in 2015 kept the U.S. at bay for most of the game.

Twenty-five days ago, the U.S. women’s national team departed from Dulles Airport in Washington, D.C., for training camp in England looking to make lacrosse history.

On Monday, nearly a month later, the team will return to the U.S. with two gold medals and the pride of knowing that if lacrosse makes it to the Olympics, people will look back on these 19 women as pioneers.

The United States is one game away from winning its second women’s lacrosse gold medal in a span of eight days.

Brooke Griffin (Maryland ’15) scored four goals and Alyssa Murray (Syracuse ’14) added three goals and four assists to lead the United States to a 14-6 victory over Great Britain to start the second day of lacrosse preliminaries at The World Games in Wroclaw, Poland.

Lacrosse made its debut in The World Games, a non-Olympic multi-sport event hosted by the International World Games Association, as the U.S. women’s national team blanked Poland 20-0 in the opener Thursday in Wroclaw, Poland.

The United States withstood its toughest test of the last 10 days, defeating Canada 10-5 in the gold medal game of the FIL Women’s World Cup on a rainy Saturday afternoon at Surrey Sports Park in Guildford, England. The U.S. improved to 60-6-1 in World Cup competition and clinched its eighth World Cup title.

Kayla Treanor set a U.S. single game record with 12 points, scoring five goals and dishing seven assists to lead the U.S. to an 18-1 victory Saturday over host England in the 2017 FIL FIL Women’s World Cup at Surrey Sports Park in Guildford, England.