Dialed In: Your Lacrosse Fix for Wednesday, Oct. 11

Good morning. Here’s the latest from around the lacrosse world:

1. Two-time Athletes Unlimited champion Taylor Moreno proved just as clutch in the sixes discipline, making two last-minute saves to lead the U.S. to an 8-7 win over Canada in the Super Sixes final Sunday in Oshawa, Ontario.

2. One of the first Israeli-born national team players is among the hundreds killed in the Hamas attacks, the Israel Lacrosse Association said in a statement issued Tuesday.

Mor Cohen helped start a team in Tel Aviv and played for Israel’s U19 team in the 2016 world championship. “He was a caring teammate and immensely committed to our lacrosse community,” the ILA said.

 

 

 

 

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Israel’s lacrosse training facility and most of its players reside in the south of Israel around the city of Ashkelon, the epicenter of the violence.

3. USA Lacrosse is revamping its membership model, the governing body of lacrosse in the United States announced Tuesday. Among the changes in the new structure, all players age 22 and under will be grouped into a singular category and certification pathways for coaches and officials have been enhanced. Read more here.

4. Former USA Lacrosse president and CEO Steve Stenersen received the Lifetime Award from World Lacrosse, the sport’s international governing body announced Tuesday.

Inducted into the National Lacrosse Hall of Fame last year, Stenersen led USA Lacrosse from its formation in 1998 to 2021 after previously serving as executive director of the Lacrosse Foundation from 1984 to 1998.

Stenersen was also instrumental in the sport’s international development, helping to lead efforts to unify the men’s and women’s governing bodies and establish the sixes discipline.

WHAT WE’RE READING

• Six players. Six decisions. Inside Lacrosse caught up with several high-profile class of 2025 recruits who have made their college choices in recent weeks.

• Also from Inside Lacrosse, our friend Dan Arestia was on hand to chronicle the Collelulori Classic at Hofstra with perspectives from the five teams that competed at Hofstra.

• Everything is coming up Kirst. Cole Kirst talked family and lacrosse — and following his brothers’ footsteps into professional box lacrosse — in an article published by the Halifax Thunderbirds.

• Football plus lacrosse equals…flax? Notre Dame lacrosse recruit Jordan Faison, fresh off earning a football scholarship after hauling in a 32-yard touchdown reception against Louisville, told The Journal Gazette he loves both sports equally. The Pine Crest (Fla.) product still plans to play lacrosse in the spring.

WHAT’S ON TAP

Everything you need to know about the USA Lacrosse Fall Classic coming to USA Lacrosse headquarters in Sparks, Md., this weekend.

The three-day event features the U.S. and Canadian men’s senior teams and women’s U20 teams, reigning NCAA women’s champion Northwestern, NCAA men’s semifinalist Penn State, the USA Select U16 and U18 boys’ and girls’ teams and high school-aged teams from the Haudenosaunee Nation and Ontario.

Get your tickets today.

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