Programs & Grants

A chance meeting among passionate youth sports advocates, along with support from US Lacrosse, has yielded a boost to the growth of lacrosse in Detroit.

The 2019 application cycle to join US Lacrosse’s Urban Lacrosse Alliance will be open through May 15. ULA members receive resources and benefits to support local game development efforts.

The goal of the Oxford Lacrosse Club is to consolidate all of the area’s lacrosse development under one umbrella organization. Starting with one team, the vision is to have multiple high school teams in the future.

With a population of about 4,000, Ellenville is a posterchild for diversity. The community includes many ethnicities that aren’t traditionally associated with lacrosse, but the game has united girls from many backgrounds into one club.

Since launching last summer, 719 Lacrosse has hosted two adaptive clinics for players with varying disabilities. The events have included participants ranging in age from six to 46, with some in wheelchairs and some who are not.

US Lacrosse was in Georgia earlier this year to run one of its TryLax clinics, a a 90-minute, introductory lacrosse experience for kids who have never played before, but are thinking they might want to. In the following video, T.J. Buchanan, technical director for athlete development, shares the vision for the program.

Over 200 kids in New York City came together to learn new skills last week as the US Lacrosse Sankofa Clinic made a stop at Columbia University’s Baker Field in Manhattan. Participants included youth players from the Inwood Lacrosse Club as well as those who have recently been introduced to the game through the NYPD’s Housing Bureau Community Affairs (HBCA) Unit. 

The US Lacrosse TryLax initiative is a 90-minute, introductory lacrosse experience for kids who have never played before, but are thinking they might want to.

US Lacrosse's new initiative, called A Player’s Pulse, is designed to raise AED funding and awareness to make lacrosse safer for all.

As founder of the Parkville (Md.) Adaptive Lacrosse program, Marty Delaney has been serving developmentally challenged players since 2001. He’s now focused on adding another target group to the lacrosse community - blind players.