Dialed In: Your Lacrosse Fix for Thursday, August 31
Good morning. Here’s the latest from around the lacrosse world:
1. Time to update your calendars, folks.
The 2024 World Lacrosse Box Championships are moving a week later into next September. The men’s and women’s championships will be played September 20-29, 2024, instead of September 13-22.
2. The Milwaukee Eagles and Houston Apollos won wheelchair lacrosse national championships last week.
The three-day tournament in Buffalo concluded on Sunday, with the Eagles winning Division A and the Apollos winning Division B.
The 10-team tournament was the largest Wheelchair Lacrosse USA (WLUSA) has ever held.
3. Katrina Dowd has filled out her staff at Brown.
Dowd, the former Oregon head coach recently hired to coach in the Ivy League, has brought on Taylor Gait and Taylor Scotton as assistants.
WHAT WE’RE READING
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USA Lacrosse CEO Marc Riccio pens his latest column on the culture and character that lifted the U.S. men’s national team to gold in San Diego earlier this summer.
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Inside Lacrosse has released its top 10 women’s lacrosse prospects from the Class of 2025.
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It’s the talk of the town: Given the new faceoff structure in the PLL, is it better to actually lose the draw? Patrick McEwen with more for Inside Lacrosse.
WHAT WE’RE WATCHING
Lacrosse is growing in Long Beach, Calif., thanks to the YMCA and USA Lacrosse.
In 2021, 40 kids participated in a USA Lacrosse clinic. In 2023, over 130 picked up a stick for the st time at a USA Lacrosse Sankofa clinic.
— USA Lacrosse (@USA_Lacrosse) August 30, 2023
Lacrosse is growing in Long Beach, CA thanks to Los Altos Family YMCA: https://t.co/DJs1ndSicp@MaverikLacrosse @USALacrosseMag @ymca pic.twitter.com/9Zx0zXt947
WHAT’S ON TAP
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More content from our September/October print edition.
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Kenny DeJohn
Kenny DeJohn has been the Digital Content Editor at USA Lacrosse since 2019. First introduced to lacrosse in 2016 as a Newsday Sports reporter on Long Island (yes, ON Long Island), DeJohn specializes in women's game coverage. His search for New York quality pizza in Baltimore is ongoing.