U.S. Men

“Bid for Gold,” an online auction to benefit the U.S. national teams for lacrosse opens tomorrow morning and runs through Thursday. The auction is a great way for lacrosse enthusiasts to secure USA gear and help support the nation’s elite athletes.

Throughout the month of February, US Lacrosse Magazine and Blaxers Blog have partnered to shine on a light on the Black men and women who have paved the way for this generation of lacrosse players and well beyond. Now, we focus on the field. With feedback from over 25 members of the lacrosse community, we compiled a list of the best Black men and women to ever play.

Making the U.S. team is the highest honor for an elite player in the sport. These five National Lacrosse Hall of Famers — John DeTommaso, Danielle Gallagher, Cherie Greer Brown, Jess Wilk and Vinnie Sombrotto — earned that coveted distinction four times.

A petition calling for the Iroquois Nationals to be included in The World Games 2022, a  multi-sport, Olympic-style event that is a separate entity from the world championships conducted by World Lacrosse, has recently been circulated on social media. US Lacrosse has issued a statement in support of the Iroquois Nationals on the matter.

Nearly three decades after their father, Alan, won a gold medal in Australia, brothers Darren and Kevin Lowe completed a remarkable journey to help an underdog U.S. team win the 2002 world championship in Perth.

World Lacrosse announced today that its senior-level Men’s World Championship, originally scheduled for 2022, is being moved back one year to 2023 and will be held in Los Angeles.

US Lacrosse has canceled or postponed its events scheduled for the month of July due to continuing health risks and logistical concerns associated with the COVID-19 pandemic.

Jimmy Burke, a National Lacrosse Hall of Fame member and three-time gold medalist with the U.S. men’s national team, died April 8 following a lengthy battle with prostate cancer.

The World Games, a multi-sport Olympic style event that will include both men’s and women’s lacrosse, has been postponed from next summer until July 2022 due to the Summer Olympics moving to 2021.

Jim Darcangelo, a National Lacrosse Hall of Fame midfielder and co-founder of the sport’s first national retail store, died Saturday at his residence in Cape Canaveral, Fla.