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World Lacrosse Tokyo

Tokyo to Host 2026 World Lacrosse Women’s Championship

Tokyo will host the 2026 World Lacrosse Women’s Championship from July 24 through August 2, the first world championship in Japan since 1997. The Oi Hockey Stadium will be used for the majority of the games in the 16-team championship, with Prince Chichibu Memorial Rugby Ground hosting medal matches and the semifinal round. “We are […]

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Bob DeMarco Begins Tenure as World Lacrosse President

American Bob DeMarco started his tenure as the president of World Lacrosse this week with a three-pronged approach to grow the game, maximize opportunities ahead of the sport’s inclusion into the Olympic program and more. DeMarco’s term runs through the end of 2028, and includes the 2028 Olympic Summer Games in Los Angeles where the […]

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Box Lacrosse Oneida

World Lacrosse Partners with Turning Stone Resort Casino

Turning Stone Resort Casino in Verona, New York, has joined the upcoming 2024 World Lacrosse Box Championships as an official event partner and will host four games at the Mary C. Winder Community Center, the Oneida Indian Nation’s new 90,000-square-foot community center. The September 20–29 world championship event will including 133 games played with 38 […]

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World Lacrosse Championships

World Lacrosse Chooses Korea and Japan for Championship Events

World Lacrosse will have three upcoming world championships in the Far East with the 2025 Men’s U20 Championship officially awarded to South Korea and the 2026 Women’s Championship and 2027 Men’s Championship awarded to Japan. “We are thrilled to award these championships to Korea and Japan, two of our model members that are both ready […]

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Lacrosse Native Americans
Lois Garlow of the Haudenosaunee Nationals lacrosse team heads toward the sideline during a match against Canada at the World Games in Birmingham, Alabama, in 2022. Members of the Haudenosaunee are hopeful they will have a chance to play the sport their people invented when lacrosse returns to the Olympics in 2028 in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Paul Newberry)

White House Supports Indigenous Lacrosse Team for 2028 Olympics

A push to allow the Haudenosaunee Nationals to compete as its own team in lacrosse at the 2028 Olympic Summer Games in Los Angeles received a major endorsement when President Joe Biden announced Wednesday at the White House Tribal Nations Summit a push to allow the Indigenous nation that invented lacrosse to play under its own […]

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Elevate28

Eight Lacrosse Organizations Form Elevate28

Eight leading lacrosse organizations in the United States have combined to form ELEVATE28 ahead of the 2028 Olympic Summer Games with the goal of doubling the country’s participation in the sport to four million annual players by the end of the decade. Athletes Unlimited, the Intercollegiate Men’s Lacrosse Coaches Association, Intercollegiate Women’s Lacrosse Coaches Association, […]

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LA28 Program

Baseball, Softball, Lacrosse, Flag Football, Cricket Among LA28 Program Additions

The LA28 Olympic and Paralympic Games has announced five sports will be proposed to the sport program with baseball/softball, flag football, cricket, lacrosse and squash up for approval by the International Olympic Committee at its Session meeting in Mumbai this month. “LA28’s proposed sports ignite the imagination on the field of play and drive culture […]

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Tokyo Olympics Softball
Japan's Mana Atsumi, right, is forced out by United States' Delaney Spaulding during a softball game at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Yokohama, Japan. Softball has been on the Olympic program five times since 1996. (AP Photo/Matt Slocum)

Sports Wait, Watch for Final Decision on LA28 Olympic Program

With a year to go before the 2024 Olympic Summer Games in Paris, for several U.S. national governing bodies, the focus instead is on 2028. For those NGBs, the chance to have their sports added to the LA28 program would be an almost indescribable boost in visibility and funding. With the program months from being […]

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