So why include Canada in a site devoted to areas outside lacrosse’s traditional hotbeds? Lacrosse’s Canadian roots are at least as deep, if not considerably deeper, than they are here in the United States. And for many years, lacrosse—not hockey—was even considered the Great White North’s national sport. (The Canadian Senate and House of Commons…
It’s possible that in 2022 the Tewaaraton Award, recognizing the best men’s and women’s college lacrosse players, could be won by players from the same state. And not only that, it could be that they’re both from the same high school. So that high school would have to be located squarely in one of lacrosse’s…
Some very strange and unexpected things happened in 2018. Saudi Arabia lifted its longstanding ban that had prevented women from driving. In Denmark, the nation’s pig population surpassed that of humans. And here in the United States, in Bloomfield Hills, a suburb north of Detroit, the Brother Rice High School lacrosse team failed to win…
The number of Californians on D1 men’s lacrosse rosters in 2022 is pretty startling: 143. More impressive still is the number of those players that come from the same high school. CIF Central Coast Section champion Sacred Heart Prep, located in the Palo Alto area, currently has 8 graduates on D1 lacrosse rosters. Among those…
