U.S. Women

Voting for the International World Games Association “Greatest Athlete of All-Time” contest opened today and U.S. national team veteran Alyssa Murray Cometti is representing the sport of lacrosse.

World Lacrosse announced today the new dates for the 2022 World Lacrosse Women’s World Championship, which now will be held June 29-July 9, 2022 in Towson, Md. on the campus of Towson University. As many as 30 national teams are expected to compete in the event.

World Lacrosse will postpone the women's world championship and the men's U20 world championship from 2021 to 2022 due to the global COVID-19 pandemic.

Due to safety and health concerns related to the recent surge in cases of COVID-19, US Lacrosse has postponed the upcoming tryouts for the U.S. women’s national team. The tryouts had been scheduled to be hosted at US Lacrosse headquarters from Dec. 4-6, 2020.

U.S. women’s national team head coach Jenny Levy and her staff have announced that 50 players have been invited to the official tryout for the U.S. team that will represent the country in the 2021 World Lacrosse Women’s World Championship.

US Lacrosse has named the 1976 Cornell University men’s lacrosse team and the 1989 U.S. Women’s World Cup Team as the winners of its 2020 Team of Distinction Awards, recognizing outstanding contributions and impact to lacrosse made by an entire team.

The third and final day of the SheCompetes virtual series, presented by the U.S. Women's National Lacrosse Team and Nike Lacrosse, concluded with frank discussions about the power of sports, as well as diversity and inclusion.

Day two of the SheCompetes virtual series, presented by the U.S. Women's National Lacrosse Team and Nike Lacrosse, yielded informative discussions about women in leadership roles and raising the profile of women’s athletics through digital media platforms.

Seeking to delve into some of the issues that impact female athletes and women in sports, US Lacrosse launched a three-day webinar series this week that seeks to provide insights from participants and industry leaders.

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.