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  • • Right Place. Right Time. Right Person
    Three days after testing positive for COVID-19 and going into isolation, Mary Griffin found out she had cancer. On a Zoom call. Hours from home. At just 19 years old. A sophomore at Virginia Tech, Griffin was outside of her apartment in Blacksburg, Va., last fall when she took the call. Three hundred miles away in Baltimore, her mother, Kelly, was also on the line. Kelly had planned to be there in...2021
  • • The Empathy that Brought the Iroquois and Irish Together as One
    Each morning, Lyle Thompson jogs around his home in the Six Nations reserve south of Toronto. Four laps around his property equal a mile. He mixes up his routine with sprints and longer runs. Next, he stretches and lifts kettlebells. Finally, he grabs his lacrosse stick and fires on a goal in his yard for up to an hour, sometimes longer. Home-cooked meals with lots of vegetables are in. Fast foods...2020
  • • 'Now, It Feels Right.' Players, Coaches React to PLL-MLL Merger
    The announcement sent shock waves throughout the lacrosse world during a time when it seems like the only certainty is uncertainty.  A little more than two years after Paul Rabil broke away from Major League Lacrosse to co-found the Premier Lacrosse League, men’s professional outdoor lacrosse is again a single entity. Only this time, it’s the PLL.  News broke Wednesday morning that lacrosse’s two ...2020
  • • Jacksonville's Kasey Stevens Moonlighting as Indispensable Basketball Player
    Jacksonville women’s lacrosse player Kasey Stevens sits in front of her computer waiting to be interviewed over Zoom with a mini basketball hoop affixed to the door in the background over her right shoulder. How fitting. The hoop was a gift from her dad when she entered her freshman year of college. It’s followed her from dorm room to dorm room — and now to her apartment closer to the beach — sinc...2020
  • • Native American Heritage: Six Questions You Always Wanted to Ask
    As part of our coverage of Native American Heritage Month, we asked some Native thought leaders in the lacrosse community to offer their perspectives on some tough questions that a lot of people wonder about but rarely ask. Justin Giles, a citizen of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation, played lacrosse at Virginia. He serves on the US Lacrosse Native American Advisory Council and was featured in US Lacros...2020
  • • Inside the November 2020 Edition of US Lacrosse Magazine
    Jules Heningburg might not have played in the PLL Championship Series this summer, but the Redwoods LC attackman still made an impact in the lacrosse world. In the wake of a renewed discussion surrounding racial injustice in this country, Heningburg banded together with other Black players in the PLL to form the Black Lacrosse Alliance. It turns out activism is not uncommon in the Heningburg famil...2020
  • • Former UMass Lacrosse Star Hannah Burnett Loving Life as NFL Scout
    When the news broke in July that the New York Giants had just hired the first woman in the NFL franchise’s 95-year history to work full-time in its scouting department and that she played college lacrosse at UMass, you might have assumed Bill Belichick had something to do with it. All roads intersecting football and lacrosse seem to lead back to New England. But Hannah Burnett has never encountere...2020
  • • Elizabeth Hillman's Return is Another Weapon for Carolina
    When we last saw North Carolina on a lacrosse field, the Tar Heels were coming off of a 20-goal explosion against Northwestern, unbeaten at 7-0, ranked No. 1 in the country and getting ready for a showdown against undefeated Notre Dame. Instead, the COVID-19 pandemic shut down the NCAA season. But North Carolina has been anything but shut down in recent months. First, the Tar Heels learned that st...2020
  • • College Lacrosse Players Join Effort to Eliminate Food Waste During Pandemic
    Her father is the billionaire co-founder of the world’s largest retailer and e-commerce company and the owner of multiple professional sports franchises. But the quality Alex Tsai admires most admires about Alibaba executive vice chairman and Brooklyn Nets owner Joe Tsai has nothing to do with his wealth and everything to do with the intrinsic drive responsible for his riches. “I’m definitely insp...2020
  • • College Lacrosse Players Join Effort to Eliminate Food Waste During Pandemic
    Her father is the billionaire co-founder of the world’s largest retailer and e-commerce company and the owner of multiple professional sports franchises. But the quality Alex Tsai admires most about Alibaba executive vice chairman and Brooklyn Nets owner Joe Tsai has nothing to do with his wealth and everything to do with the intrinsic drive responsible for his riches. “I’m definitely inspired by ...2020

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  • • Right Place. Right Time. Right Person
    Three days after testing positive for COVID-19 and going into isolation, Mary Griffin found out she had cancer. On a Zoom call. Hours from home. At just 19 years old. A sophomore at Virginia Tech, Griffin was outside of her apartment in Blacksburg, Va., last fall when she took the call. Three hundred miles away in Baltimore, her mother, Kelly, was also on the line. Kelly had planned to be there in...2021
  • • Jacksonville's Kasey Stevens Moonlighting as Indispensable Basketball Player
    Jacksonville women’s lacrosse player Kasey Stevens sits in front of her computer waiting to be interviewed over Zoom with a mini basketball hoop affixed to the door in the background over her right shoulder. How fitting. The hoop was a gift from her dad when she entered her freshman year of college. It’s followed her from dorm room to dorm room — and now to her apartment closer to the beach — sinc...2020
  • • Elizabeth Hillman's Return is Another Weapon for Carolina
    When we last saw North Carolina on a lacrosse field, the Tar Heels were coming off of a 20-goal explosion against Northwestern, unbeaten at 7-0, ranked No. 1 in the country and getting ready for a showdown against undefeated Notre Dame. Instead, the COVID-19 pandemic shut down the NCAA season. But North Carolina has been anything but shut down in recent months. First, the Tar Heels learned that st...2020
  • • After Winning 5 Titles in 407 Days, Zach Currier Seeks New Challenge in PLL
    Do you want to win? Then get tough. Get mentally tough. It takes more than muscle, more than practice, more than sheer determination to get to the top. It takes the mind of a champion. — The Sports Hypnotist There is no sport on the planet that can quite compare to the speed, approach, athletic prowess and discipline of ice hockey like lacrosse. It’s not unusual for athletes of either sport to gro...2020
  • • No Medicine Games During the Pandemic
    My black referee bag sits shoved into a dark corner of my closet with everything jumbled inside. Yellow penalty flags crinkled from their last toss. A scorecard filled out in pencil. An upside-down referee hat. Above the bag, my black-and-white striped referee shirts hang side by side. Throughout the year, they move in a steady stream from me to my washing machine to my dryer and back to me. It is...2020
  • • Revisiting Denver's Historic Run to the 2015 NCAA Championship
    Bill Tierney graciously, however reluctantly took a call this week to talk about the Denver men’s lacrosse team’s 2015 NCAA championship. “In days like this, you want to live in your future,” said Tierney, who like most college coaches will spend Memorial Day weekend holed up in his home waiting for the COVID-19 pandemic to ease and wondering what could have been. “I’ve never been much of a look-b...2020
  • • The Vault: Eric Martin, Team USA's 'Rare Bird' (May 2010)
    US Lacrosse Magazine, formerly Lacrosse Magazine, is the longest-running and most widely read lacrosse publication in the world. The magazine dates back to 1978. “The Vault” is a new series in which we will revisit past cover subjects to see where they are now and what that moment in time meant to them. Don’t get the mag? Join US Lacrosse today to start your subscription.   S ome birds aren’t mean...2020
  • • No Regrets for Lehigh's Andrew Pettit After Second Chance Gets Cut Short
    No one could have scripted the way Andrew Pettit’s fifth year played out, not even a movie. The COVID-19 epidemic has been a real-life nightmare for the country, and world. Prior to that, Pettit’s comeback from injury was more like a dream. Take these examples… Pettit celebrated his return to the lineup by scoring Lehigh’s first goal of the season, just 1:05 into the opener vs. Utah. He tied a ...2020
  • • Coaches Give Thumbs Up for Shot Clock, Thumbs Down for the Dive
    Once the NCAA finally pushed the sport of men’s lacrosse into the shot clock era, it seemed inevitable that the college game would begin to look fundamentally different. As the first regular season with an official shot clock has come to pass, that is what has happened — and mostly in a very good way, say a handful of Division I coaches and a longtime lacrosse rules administrator. “The shot clock ...2019
  • • Army-Navy Rivalry Set for Historic 100th Meeting
    Army was more than a decade removed from its last victory over Navy back in 2008, and Black Knights coach Joe Alberici was still early in his tenure at West Point. There are reminders of the 9-6 victory earned that afternoon in his office to this day, including a framed gray “08” jersey presented to him last year by the class of 2008. Yet there’s also a memory to encapsulate just what the schools’...2019

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Section Three lifestyle

  • • College Lacrosse Players Join Effort to Eliminate Food Waste During Pandemic
    2020
  • • College Lacrosse Players Join Effort to Eliminate Food Waste During Pandemic
    2020
  • • The Vault: Eric Martin, Team USA's 'Rare Bird' (May 2010)
    2020
  • • Buness Defies Odds at Stanford, Lacrosse is "Escape" from Disease
    Last renovated in October 2011, Stanford’s Laird Q. Cagan Stadium now features the Leo Weinstein Field House below its elevated seating structure, complete with team and referee locker rooms, a sports medicine room and public restrooms adjacent to Maloney Field. It’s home to the Cardinal’s soccer programs, as well as its women’s lacrosse team, and serves as a recruiting tool to attract the next ge...2019
  • • Ivy Santana: The Right Path
    This article, as told to Matt DaSilva, appears in the April edition of US Lacrosse Magazine, which includes a special 10-page section featuring faces and voices of the Native American lacrosse community. Don’t get the mag? Join US Lacrosse today to start your subscription. Ivy Santana ni:’gaya:söh ga:nyö’öka:’. Onödagö:gwa:h ni:’knöge’. Degyö’sgae’ niwagoshiya’göh. Dave Santana haya:söh neh hage’n...2019
  • • Spence Brothers Fueling Lehigh's Turnaround
    You often hear teams say they’re a family, competing alongside their brothers. That couldn’t be more true for the Lehigh men’s lacrosse team, whose camaraderie and togetherness allowed them to fight through early-season adversity and a 1-3 start to win five straight games. It’s also true because there are literally two sets of brothers on the Mountain Hawks, including Lucas and James Spence – an a...2019
  • • A Bronx Tale: Concrete Jungle Becomes Unlikely Lacrosse Terrain
    This article appears in the December edition of US Lacrosse Magazine. Don’t get the mag? Join US Lacrosse today to start your subscription. Highbridge Green School sits in the South Bronx, somewhere between Yankee Stadium and the Bronx Zoo. It’s part of what was recently the poorest congressional district in the country. There’s no local bank. Few real restaurants. A lot of concrete. But there’s s...2018
  • • Lacrosse Saved My Life: A Story of Friendship and Survival
    This article appears in the September/October edition of US Lacrosse Magazine. It contains graphic content intended for a mature audience.    The story relates to the subject of mental illness and one lacrosse official’s specific experiences with attempted suicide — as well as the roles the sport and various people within it have played in his recovery. It’s a story of friendship and survival, one...2018
  • • Characters with Character: A Conversation with the U.S. Coaches
    You don’t often find team-defining moments in a 19-2 blowout. But as the U.S. sputtered early in its FIL World Championship preliminary July 17 against England — the fourth game in four days during its redemptive journey to a gold medal in Israel earlier this summer — a sideline exchange between offensive coordinator Seth Tierney and co-captain Matt Danowski perfectly captured the interpersonal dy...2018
  • • Characters with Character: A Conversation with the U.S. Coaching Staff
    You don’t often find team-defining moments in a 19-2 blowout. But as the U.S. sputtered early in its FIL World Championship preliminary July 17 against England — the fourth game in four days during its redemptive journey to a gold medal in Israel earlier this summer — a sideline exchange between offensive coordinator Seth Tierney and co-captain Matt Danowski perfectly captured the interpersonal dy...2018

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Section Three trade, contract, salary rumors

  • • Right Place. Right Time. Right Person
    Three days after testing positive for COVID-19 and going into isolation, Mary Griffin found out she had cancer. On a Zoom call. Hours from home. At just 19 years old. A sophomore at Virginia Tech, Griffin was outside of her apartment in Blacksburg, Va., last fall when she took the call. Three hundred miles away in Baltimore, her mother, Kelly, was also on the line. Kelly had planned to be there in...2021
  • • The Empathy that Brought the Iroquois and Irish Together as One
    Each morning, Lyle Thompson jogs around his home in the Six Nations reserve south of Toronto. Four laps around his property equal a mile. He mixes up his routine with sprints and longer runs. Next, he stretches and lifts kettlebells. Finally, he grabs his lacrosse stick and fires on a goal in his yard for up to an hour, sometimes longer. Home-cooked meals with lots of vegetables are in. Fast foods...2020
  • • 'Now, It Feels Right.' Players, Coaches React to PLL-MLL Merger
    The announcement sent shock waves throughout the lacrosse world during a time when it seems like the only certainty is uncertainty.  A little more than two years after Paul Rabil broke away from Major League Lacrosse to co-found the Premier Lacrosse League, men’s professional outdoor lacrosse is again a single entity. Only this time, it’s the PLL.  News broke Wednesday morning that lacrosse’s two ...2020
  • • Native American Heritage: Six Questions You Always Wanted to Ask
    As part of our coverage of Native American Heritage Month, we asked some Native thought leaders in the lacrosse community to offer their perspectives on some tough questions that a lot of people wonder about but rarely ask. Justin Giles, a citizen of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation, played lacrosse at Virginia. He serves on the US Lacrosse Native American Advisory Council and was featured in US Lacros...2020
  • • Former UMass Lacrosse Star Hannah Burnett Loving Life as NFL Scout
    When the news broke in July that the New York Giants had just hired the first woman in the NFL franchise’s 95-year history to work full-time in its scouting department and that she played college lacrosse at UMass, you might have assumed Bill Belichick had something to do with it. All roads intersecting football and lacrosse seem to lead back to New England. But Hannah Burnett has never encountere...2020
  • • College Lacrosse Players Join Effort to Eliminate Food Waste During Pandemic
    Her father is the billionaire co-founder of the world’s largest retailer and e-commerce company and the owner of multiple professional sports franchises. But the quality Alex Tsai admires most admires about Alibaba executive vice chairman and Brooklyn Nets owner Joe Tsai has nothing to do with his wealth and everything to do with the intrinsic drive responsible for his riches. “I’m definitely insp...2020
  • • College Lacrosse Players Join Effort to Eliminate Food Waste During Pandemic
    Her father is the billionaire co-founder of the world’s largest retailer and e-commerce company and the owner of multiple professional sports franchises. But the quality Alex Tsai admires most about Alibaba executive vice chairman and Brooklyn Nets owner Joe Tsai has nothing to do with his wealth and everything to do with the intrinsic drive responsible for his riches. “I’m definitely inspired by ...2020
  • • After Winning 5 Titles in 407 Days, Zach Currier Seeks New Challenge in PLL
    Do you want to win? Then get tough. Get mentally tough. It takes more than muscle, more than practice, more than sheer determination to get to the top. It takes the mind of a champion. — The Sports Hypnotist There is no sport on the planet that can quite compare to the speed, approach, athletic prowess and discipline of ice hockey like lacrosse. It’s not unusual for athletes of either sport to gro...2020
  • • Soudo Psychology: New Chrome Coach Has Way with Fixer-Uppers
    Few people could get away with talking to John Galloway the way Tim Soudan did shortly after  Soudan was named the new head coach of Chrome LC in December. Galloway, the NCAA’s all-time winningest goalie and co-captain of the U.S. national team, has little left to prove. He might even have retired after leading Team USA to the gold medal in the 2018 world championship were it not for the advent of...2020
  • • Silent No More: A Racial Awakening for the Lacrosse Community
    This article appears in the July/August edition of US Lacrosse Magazine, a digital-only publication available exclusively to US Lacrosse members. Join or renew today for access to this 96-page edition, which includes immersive and interactive features as well as video tips from professional players. Thank you for your support! A s the attention surrounding the COVID-19 pandemic and its effects sta...2020

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  • • Right Place. Right Time. Right Person
    Three days after testing positive for COVID-19 and going into isolation, Mary Griffin found out she had cancer. On a Zoom call. Hours from home. At just 19 years old. A sophomore at Virginia Tech, Griffin was outside of her apartment in Blacksburg, Va., last fall when she took the call. Three hundred miles away in Baltimore, her mother, Kelly, was also on the line. Kelly had planned to be there in...2021
  • • The Empathy that Brought the Iroquois and Irish Together as One
    Each morning, Lyle Thompson jogs around his home in the Six Nations reserve south of Toronto. Four laps around his property equal a mile. He mixes up his routine with sprints and longer runs. Next, he stretches and lifts kettlebells. Finally, he grabs his lacrosse stick and fires on a goal in his yard for up to an hour, sometimes longer. Home-cooked meals with lots of vegetables are in. Fast foods...2020
  • • Jacksonville's Kasey Stevens Moonlighting as Indispensable Basketball Player
    Jacksonville women’s lacrosse player Kasey Stevens sits in front of her computer waiting to be interviewed over Zoom with a mini basketball hoop affixed to the door in the background over her right shoulder. How fitting. The hoop was a gift from her dad when she entered her freshman year of college. It’s followed her from dorm room to dorm room — and now to her apartment closer to the beach — sinc...2020
  • • Elizabeth Hillman's Return is Another Weapon for Carolina
    When we last saw North Carolina on a lacrosse field, the Tar Heels were coming off of a 20-goal explosion against Northwestern, unbeaten at 7-0, ranked No. 1 in the country and getting ready for a showdown against undefeated Notre Dame. Instead, the COVID-19 pandemic shut down the NCAA season. But North Carolina has been anything but shut down in recent months. First, the Tar Heels learned that st...2020
  • • College Lacrosse Players Join Effort to Eliminate Food Waste During Pandemic
    Her father is the billionaire co-founder of the world’s largest retailer and e-commerce company and the owner of multiple professional sports franchises. But the quality Alex Tsai admires most admires about Alibaba executive vice chairman and Brooklyn Nets owner Joe Tsai has nothing to do with his wealth and everything to do with the intrinsic drive responsible for his riches. “I’m definitely insp...2020
  • • College Lacrosse Players Join Effort to Eliminate Food Waste During Pandemic
    Her father is the billionaire co-founder of the world’s largest retailer and e-commerce company and the owner of multiple professional sports franchises. But the quality Alex Tsai admires most about Alibaba executive vice chairman and Brooklyn Nets owner Joe Tsai has nothing to do with his wealth and everything to do with the intrinsic drive responsible for his riches. “I’m definitely inspired by ...2020
  • • After Winning 5 Titles in 407 Days, Zach Currier Seeks New Challenge in PLL
    Do you want to win? Then get tough. Get mentally tough. It takes more than muscle, more than practice, more than sheer determination to get to the top. It takes the mind of a champion. — The Sports Hypnotist There is no sport on the planet that can quite compare to the speed, approach, athletic prowess and discipline of ice hockey like lacrosse. It’s not unusual for athletes of either sport to gro...2020
  • • Soudo Psychology: New Chrome Coach Has Way with Fixer-Uppers
    Few people could get away with talking to John Galloway the way Tim Soudan did shortly after  Soudan was named the new head coach of Chrome LC in December. Galloway, the NCAA’s all-time winningest goalie and co-captain of the U.S. national team, has little left to prove. He might even have retired after leading Team USA to the gold medal in the 2018 world championship were it not for the advent of...2020
  • • Dreams of Western Growth Come True for Members of Archers LC
    Will Manny (then a Wagner assistant), Marcus Holman (then a club coach in North Carolina) and Adam Ghitelman (then an assistant for USC club) heard the pitch from new Utah men’s lacrosse Brian Holman. They were pulled in by the passion with which the elder Holman spoke while sharing his vision for the future of Utah men’s lacrosse. The “grand” vision of Utah lacrosse, though, didn’t include the ri...2020
  • • Silent No More: A Racial Awakening for the Lacrosse Community
    This article appears in the July/August edition of US Lacrosse Magazine, a digital-only publication available exclusively to US Lacrosse members. Join or renew today for access to this 96-page edition, which includes immersive and interactive features as well as video tips from professional players. Thank you for your support! A s the attention surrounding the COVID-19 pandemic and its effects sta...2020

Section Three parents, kids, wife / husband, girlfriend / boyfriend

  • • Right Place. Right Time. Right Person
    2021
  • • The Empathy that Brought the Iroquois and Irish Together as One
    2020
  • • 'Now, It Feels Right.' Players, Coaches React to PLL-MLL Merger
    2020
  • • Jacksonville's Kasey Stevens Moonlighting as Indispensable Basketball Player
    2020
  • • Native American Heritage: Six Questions You Always Wanted to Ask
    2020
  • • Inside the November 2020 Edition of US Lacrosse Magazine
    2020
  • • Former UMass Lacrosse Star Hannah Burnett Loving Life as NFL Scout
    2020
  • • Elizabeth Hillman's Return is Another Weapon for Carolina
    2020
  • • College Lacrosse Players Join Effort to Eliminate Food Waste During Pandemic
    2020
  • • College Lacrosse Players Join Effort to Eliminate Food Waste During Pandemic
    2020

Top Section Three news

  • • Jack Allard: COVID-19 'Took Me to My Knees,' Grateful for Lacrosse Family
    Jack Allard likened it to a long nap. He fell asleep in one hospital bed in New Jersey and woke up in another in Philadelphia. The normally clean-shaven 26-year-old had a thick ginger beard and a tube penetrating his neck, the other end of it attached to a ventilator. Twenty days had passed. Allard had no idea he had gone viral — literally and figuratively. “I always thought my next US Lacrosse Ma...2020
  • • Promising Ivy League Lacrosse Season Comes to Abrupt and Painful End
    Gerry Byrne sympathizes with seasons suddenly lost. Notre Dame even had a playbook, of sorts, when it came to abrupt and unsatisfying endings and locker rooms full of virile 18- to 22-year-old young men reduced to tears. The Fighting Irish advanced to the NCAA men’s lacrosse tournament every year during Byrne’s 13 seasons as an assistant coach, making it to the championship weekend four times and ...2020
  • • Jack Brennan Finds Solace in Maryland Lacrosse Family
    It was the last place Jack Brennan expected to be, and for a reason he could not fathom. Four days before his collegiate lacrosse debut, Brennan, a freshman attackman at Maryland, was back home in upstate New York, mourning the death of the man who helped introduce him to the sport. “He grew up playing lacrosse,” Brennan said of his uncle, Robert Knapp, who played lacrosse at Irondequoit High Scho...2020
  • • Lacrosse Companies, Athletes Mobilize in the Fight Against COVID-19
    When I was a boy and I would see scary things in the news, my mother would say to me, “Look for the helpers. You will always find people who are helping.” — Fred Rogers The lacrosse community does not need to look far to find people who are helping. From individual families and small business owners to large manufacturers, people associated with the sport are marshaling their resources to produce ...2020
  • • Coaches React to the Passing of Early Recruiting Legislation
    It’s been a little over 24 hours since news broke that the NCAA Division I Council passed Proposal 2016-26, which prohibits college lacrosse coaches from communicating with prospective student-athletes until Sept. 1 of their junior year of high school. In addition, the IWLCA officials confirmed Saturday that the legislation is effective immediately, after it was labeled “noncontroversial” by the N...2017
  • • Medicine Game, Montreal-Mohawk Reenactment Mark 150th Anniversary of Lax in Canada
    T he year is 1867. Tokyo opens its borders to foreign trade, Nebraska becomes the 37th U.S. state, barbed wire is patented, a colony of the British Empire north of the young United States is about to become a country and the modern game of lacrosse is born. The Creator’s Game, of course, had been played by the Kanienkehá:ka (Mohawks) and the other five Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) nations for centurie...2017
  • • Tre Leclaire: From the Barns of B.C. to Buckeye Sensation
    N ot long before Ohio State attackman Tre Leclaire seemingly came out of nowhere a year ago by unleashing that vicious, accurate shot that left marks on the Division I world and lifted the Buckeyes to historic heights, Leclaire was a relative unknown even among his own kind in the far western Canadian province of British Columbia. Fellow B.C. native Logan Schuss, a 2013 graduate of Ohio State and ...2018
  • • "We Matter": Team-First Mantra Earned Terps Another Title
    The critics were silenced. The doubters were proven wrong. With a 16-13 victory over Boston College at Gillette Stadium in Foxborough, Mass., No. 1 Maryland finished the 2017 season undefeated and won its third NCAA championship in the past four years. “Three for four isn’t too shabby,” said Terps senior captain Zoe Stukenberg. The Tewaaraton finalist, alongside fellow captain and award finalist N...2017
  • • Lacrosse Roots Run Deep for Four NHL Players
    After years on the lacrosse turf, four NHL players have come full circle in the most unique of ways. Nick and Brett Ritchie grew up on the lacrosse fields in Peterborough, Ontario, while also skating in the winters. The brothers dominated at both sports while also starring for the Orangeville Northmen program. Now, both in the NHL as opponents, there’s more than one connection between the two. “We...2018
  • • Lasota's Return Brings Confidence Back to Northwestern
    Selena Lasota is back where she is happiest – playing lacrosse. The junior attacker has returned to No. 13 Northwestern after the toughest year of her life. “In the beginning, it was tough,” said Northwestern coach Kelly Amonte Hiller. “You get back and you’re trying to get back in the groove and get your confidence back after being out so long. Now, having a couple games under your belt, it’s pre...2018
  • • Doug Knight's Unlikely Path to the Hall of Fame, as Told By Dom Starsia
    I did not realize it was late in my final spring as the head coach at Brown University.  I had gone over to Westminster School outside of Hartford to see one of our recruits, Dennis Fitzgibbons, a post-grad set to attend Brown in the fall.  It was simply a courtesy call, as much as anything. It did not take long, however, to turn my attention unexpectedly to a wildly athletic, undersized, unorthod...2017
  • • Syrian Sisters Find Refuge in Lacrosse
    This article originally appeared in the June 2016 edition of US Lacrosse Magazine. Join US Lacrosse today to start your subscription. Y ara Oudat doesn’t need to look far on most game days. There, in the front row, she’ll find her mother, Lama, and her sister, Lana. She’ll hear them, too, screaming louder than anyone else at the University of the District of Columbia women’s lacrosse games. Lama O...2017
  • • A Candid Reflection on Race from Virginia Coach Lars Tiffany
    Truth, justice, equality. Our nation’s founders and charter documents clearly state the values the United States of America, and its citizens, will pursue and realize. Starting with the Declaration of Independence and continuing through modern times, we have such poetic, theoretical purity of opportunity-for-all and democracy found in the words from our government. But why do such past and current...2020
  • • Khristian Marley and the Jamaican Lacrosse Movement
    K hristian Marley is becoming more aware of the significance of his last name. As Bob Marley’s grandson, he has heard the stories that make up the legend of the late musician and humanitarian — one that is intertwined with the culture of Jamaica. He has run into strangers that speak to him of their encounters with his grandfather, like the time he drove out of his gate, picked up local children an...2017

Section Three fantasy rankings and news

  • • Meet Mike Daly, The Coach Who Never Played Lacrosse
    M ike Daly, tall, Irish and carrying the sturdy body of a 44-year-old former football and baseball player, usually invokes the irony of his life’s work at least once a year — with a line of self-deprecating yet incisive humor directed at the group of 18- to 22-year-olds sitting before him. “But what do I know?” he’ll deadpan in a darkened team film room. “I never played lacrosse.” Perhaps he’s jus...2017

Section Three schedule, game

  • • Right Place. Right Time. Right Person
    2021
  • • The Empathy that Brought the Iroquois and Irish Together as One
    2020
  • • 'Now, It Feels Right.' Players, Coaches React to PLL-MLL Merger
    2020
  • • Inside the November 2020 Edition of US Lacrosse Magazine
    2020
  • • Former UMass Lacrosse Star Hannah Burnett Loving Life as NFL Scout
    2020
  • • Elizabeth Hillman's Return is Another Weapon for Carolina
    2020
  • • College Lacrosse Players Join Effort to Eliminate Food Waste During Pandemic
    2020
  • • College Lacrosse Players Join Effort to Eliminate Food Waste During Pandemic
    2020
  • • After Winning 5 Titles in 407 Days, Zach Currier Seeks New Challenge in PLL
    2020
  • • Soudo Psychology: New Chrome Coach Has Way with Fixer-Uppers
    2020

Section Three rumors, scandals, hoax

  • • MLL Draft Recap: Did Denver Outsmart Everyone Again?
    The Denver Outlaws long have held the reputation as Major League Lacrosse’s shrewdest drafters. Dare we say, in Jon Cohen, they trust? You could almost hear new team president Matt Bocklet gag over the phone at that reference before confessing that, yes, his former roommate and the longest-tenured member of the Outlaws’ staff gets it right more often than most. “Don’t let Bock take credit for any ...2020
  • • No Regrets for Lehigh's Andrew Pettit After Second Chance Gets Cut Short
    2020
  • • Inside the March 2019 Edition of US Lacrosse Magazine
    Caitlyn Wurzburger has been making her impact on the high school lacrosse game since she was in middle school. She starred for American Heritage-Delray (Fla.), eventually leading to her commitment to Syracuse in 2016 — making her the youngest recruit in girls' lacrosse history. Now committed to North Carolina, Wurzburger is continuing to dominate high school lacrosse while competing for a spot on ...2019
  • • Time To Fly: Only an NCAA Title Will Do for Boston College
    Acacia Walker-Weinstein has a cold. It’s bad enough that Walker-Weinstein is headed home for the day, even though it’s barely noon. These are not the normal working hours of a Division I head coach chasing a third straight national championship game. Long days, late nights and lost weekends are more the norm. But it’s only mid-November, and Boston College’s fall ball season is behind her and it’s ...2019
  • • A Griffin's Survival: Michael Sanzone Thriving After Near-Death Experience
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