“We believe that in lacrosse and hockey, our two National Games, we have the best moral, physical and mental developer of any games known as to the athletics world.”
These are the words of A.E.H. Coo, President of Canadian Amateur Lacrosse Association.
Lacrosse Warriors Club is recently open in our University (University of Fraser Valley) this year’s winter session. In UFV there are many clubs like Salsa Club, Bhangra Club, Badminton Club and many more. These clubs give opportunity to many scholars to give wings to their dreams. But in lacrosse club there is little bit surprise. Lacrosse club not only gives opportunity to the physically well students but also gives opportunity to the students who are not physically well. …show more content…
This game was mainly played by Woodlands Native Americans and by some Plains Indians tribes in what is now the United States of America and Canada.
Earlier hundreds of thousands of nearby tribal or villages grouped together in a open plain ground which is nearby to both the groups to play this game. The game starts at sun rise and ends at sun set. Due to hundreds of players the ball and players movement is very slow. The rules of the game are set before the day of match in a meeting. On the day of match, players gave himself scary looks with the help of charcoal. Moreover, their sticks were also decorated. After completion all the rituals, they make a loud random sound while move towards the ground. They made loud sounds to scare other team members
Earlier the match of Lacrosse wasn’t friendly they were having some means behind their game. Some tribal mess up in Lacrosse match to show their dominancy. On the other hand, some of the issues were also solved by Lacrosse match. For instance, if one village has land issue or water issue with other village they set a match of Lacrosse to solve …show more content…
• In 1794, the rules were set first time when Mohawks and Seneca played against one another.
• This game is national sports in summer whereas in winter, Canada's national sports is Ice Hockey.
• The United States experiencing its fastest growth of the sports as it observes a significant increase in the number of people interested in this sport.
• The Natives and most interestingly the French are credited with setting the foundations on which the game continues to stand.
Fastest Growing Sports: -
"A record total of 746,859 players competed on organized lacrosse teams in 2013. The growth rate from last year (722,205) was 3.4 percent and youth participation topped 400,000 for the first time ever.” said by US Lacrosse in his annual report.
Between the 2008-09 and 2012-13 school years, participation in high-school lacrosse grew 19 percent among girls (to more than 77,000 players) and 15 percent among boys (to nearly 102,000 players), according to data from the National Federation of State High School Associations analyzed by