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7 unusual facts about Lacrosse


Brooklin, Ontario

At one time, Brooklin was known as being the smallest town in the world to have a Major Series Lacrosse team.

C. Markland Kelly

It initiated funding of the Lacrosse Hall of Fame Foundation and presents the Ensign C. Markland Kelly, Jr. Award annually to the top college Lacrosse goaltender.

Craig Shirley

He was also an editor of Coaching Youth Lacrosse, published by the Lacrosse Foundation.

Hunt Youth Lacrosse Program, was coach there for 14 years, compiling a record of 121 wins, 19 losses and 4 ties, winning several championships.

Henri S. Rauschenbach

While an undergraduate at Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, Rauschenbach was active in athletics playing soccer, Wrestling and Lacrosse.

Uihlein Soccer Park

Uihlein Soccer Park has also been used for Lacrosse tournaments (Hot 4 Lax), Ultimate Frisbee games (Milwaukee Ultimate), and Hurling matches (Milwaukee Hurling Club).

World Lacrosse Championship

In 2008, the ILF merged with the former governing body for women's lacrosse, the International Federation of Women's Lacrosse Associations (IFWLA), to form the Federation of International Lacrosse (FIL).


2010 NLL season

On August 10, 2009 it was announced that after three seasons in New York, the Titans franchise will be relocating to Orlando, Florida, where they will become the Orlando Titans.

Big East Conference

Old Dominion will also play field hockey in the league, while Cincinnati will play women's lacrosse.

Blue Ridge School

Chazz Woodson 01' Professional lacrosse player for the Ohio Machine

Brampton Excelsiors

Brampton Excelsiors Jr. A, a box lacrosse team from Brampton, Ontario, Canada, who compete in the OLA Junior A Lacrosse League

Cambridge Gulf

On September 17, 1819 Philip Parker King on the survey cutter HMS Mermaid, who was mapping the entire north Australian coastline, had landed at Lacrosse Island, from where he noticed a "deep opening" to the south.

Casey Powell

On August 16, 2013, North Broward Preparatory School announced that Casey Powell has been hired as Director of Lacrosse Programs for the school.

Centre Wellington, Ontario

The Elora arena plays host to the Elora Rocks Sr.A hockey team, the Elora Mohawks Jr.B lacrosse team, the Elora Lightning minor hockey association and the Elora Mohawks minor lacrosse association.

Cody Jamieson

During his first year, Jamieson led the Lazers (which included fellow Six Nations players Craig Point and Sid Smith) to an 18-0 undefeated season and a national championship.

Craig Minervini

He also has done play-by-play for various other sports include Notre Dame football on NBC, CBS Sports Spectacular, College World Series on ESPN, Major League Soccer, XFL on TNN, boxing on TNN, mixed martial arts on TNN, Syracuse Chiefs AAA baseball, and Syracuse Orange football, basketball, lacrosse, and soccer.

Cy Denneny

He was the son of James Israel Denneny who was a top lacrosse player in the late 19th century and was descended from the Dennenys of County Monaghan, Ireland.

Dale DeGray

The grandson of Canadian Lacrosse Hall of Famer Kelly DeGray, Dale played both hockey and lacrosse in his youth but turned his focus exclusively to hockey in his teens.

Davenport Panthers

Men's lacrosse program began in 2008 and is coached by Bob Clarkson.

Deckman

Joseph H. Deckman (born 1969), American businessman and lacrosse player and coach

Dick Edell

He was also the second-winningest active head coach by wins, behind Jack Emmer of Army with 289, and the winningest all-time ACC coach, with 171 wins, ahead of Jim Adams of Virginia with 137.

Dino Mattessich

Mattessich provided the inspiration for a lacrosse player depicted on a 51-cent Canadian stamp issued in 2006 in commemoration of the World Lacrosse Championship.

Dominique Sandy

Dominique Thomas Sandy (born 18 March 1992, Reading, England) is an international lacrosse player for France.

Gary Gait

Gary Charles Gait (b. April 5, 1967 in Victoria, British Columbia) is a Canadian retired lacrosse player and currently the head coach of the women's lacrosse team at Syracuse University, where he played the sport collegiately, and an assistant coach with the Hamilton Nationals in Major League Lacrosse.

Gogie Stewart

While playing junior lacrosse, he won back-to-back Minto Cup championships in 1948 and 1949.

Grant Farred

Farred was one of the most outspoken members of the so-called “Group of 88,” a group of 88 professors at Duke who signed an advertisement in the Duke student newspaper, The Chronicle, shortly after white members of the university's lacrosse team were charged with raping a black woman on the night of March 13, 2006.

Howard Myers

Howdy Myers (1910–1980), American football, basketball and lacrosse coach and college athletics administrator

James Earl Coleman, Jr.

In 2006 Coleman was appointed head of a committee to investigate the Duke Lacrosse team's culture by president Richard H. Brodhead.

Jim Beardmore

In addition, he has served as head coach for a number of high schools, including Severna Park, and is director of Nike Lacrosse Summer Camps and All-American Sports Camps.

Jim Berkman

During the 2008 NCAA tournament, he surpassed Army coach Jack Emmer's former record of 326 wins to become the all-time winningest NCAA lacrosse coach.

Joseph Ferdinand Keppler

He was an honorary chief of the Seneca nation, promoted Iroquois lacrosse teams, and obtained discount railroad fares for New York Indians.

Kelly Evans

She was a four-time scholar-athlete, co-captain of the women's lacrosse team (First Team All-State, a First-Team All-ODAC and a First Team All-Region selection) and a national leadership society Omicron Delta Kappa.

Kinney Zalesne

She attended The Baldwin School, where she was president of student government and played varsity field hockey, basketball, and lacrosse.

Kristi Lee

Lee was also featured on ESPN and ESPN2 as a side line reporter, covering events like lacrosse, auto racing, and the first three X Games on ESPN2.

Kyle Harrison

Harrison currently is part of the Chapman University (Orange, Ca) Men's Lacrosse coaching staff and plays on the LXM Pro Tour.

La Crosse, Kansas

La Crosse was founded in 1876, named after either the sport or La Crosse, Wisconsin, the hometown of a local newspaper editor.

LaCrosse High School

Starting in the 2012-2013 school year, LaCrosse High School began its 1 to 1 initiative by providing each student and teacher a MacBook Pro to use for school work.

Major League Lacrosse MVP Award

The Bud Light Major League Lacrosse MVP Award is awarded annually to the best performing player of Major League Lacrosse.

Marty O'Neill

Marty O'Neill, born June 6, 1964 in Winnipeg, Manitoba, is a former lacrosse player and former general manager of the Minnesota Swarm of the National Lacrosse League (NLL).

Matt Danowski

Following the forced resignation of long-time Duke lacrosse coach Mike Pressler, Danowski's father, John Danowski, became the head coach of the team.

Mickey Ion

The team was run by hockey entrepreneurs Lester Patrick and Frank Patrick, and when they started the Pacific Coast Hockey Association in 1911, they hired several of their lacrosse players—Ion among them—to referee the league's games.

Mikael Granlund

After Granlund's "lacrosse-style" goal at the 2011 IIHF World Championship semifinal versus Russia, Finnish Hockey Mafia released the single "Taivas varjele!" featuring sampled comments by Finnish sports broadcaster Antero Mertaranta.

Mike French

Michael "Mike" G. French was a three-time All-American lacrosse player at Cornell University from 1974 to 1976, teaming with fellow lacrosse Hall of Fame members Eamon McEneaney, Dan Mackesey, Bill Marino, Tom Marino, Bob Hendrickson, Chris Kane, and Richie Moran to lead the Cornell Big Red to the NCAA Men's Lacrosse Championship in 1976.

Saint Francis Red Flash

The Saint Francis Red Flash are the 22 sports teams representing Saint Francis University in Loretto, Pennsylvania in intercollegiate athletics, including men and women's basketball, cross country, golf, soccer, track and field, and volleyball; women's-only bowling, field hockey, lacrosse, softball, and swimming; and men's-only football.

Sam Bradman

Sam Bradman is a professional lacrosse player on Team STX of the LXM Pro Tour.

Terry Riordan

In addition to his career in professional lacrosse, Terry pursued professional acting attending the Lee Strasberg institute.

Thailand Lacrosse Association

Info: The home stadium of the Thailand Premier League Professional Soccer team, the SCG Muangthong United F.C. It is used as the home field, and practice facility of the men's national lacrosse team since 2010.

Toronto Blueshirts

The Toronto franchise was bought by Frank Robinson, Percy Quinn, who was also president of the Dominion Lacrosse Association, a Canadian professional lacrosse league that had patterned itself after the NHA and other investors.

Tracey Kelusky

Tracey Kelusky (born September 9, 1975) is a lacrosse player for the Philadelphia Wings in the National Lacrosse League and the Peterborough Lakers of the Major Series Lacrosse.

Virginia Cavaliers men's lacrosse

During the tournament, head coach Dom Starsia became the all-time wins leader in Division I men's lacrosse history, breaking Jack Emmer's previous mark of 326 wins.

Waukee High School

Combined with some students from Valley High School, this Girls' Lacrosse Team was the first high-school-age team in Iowa.

Wingate Memorial Trophy

The first intercollegiate lacrosse tournament was held in 1881 with Harvard beating Princeton 3-0 in the championship game.


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