Lacrosse Net Repair or Replace and How to Tell
The Net Doesn’t Fail All at Once, Which Is Exactly the Problem A goal net rarely dies dramatically. It frays where the lacing rubs, opens a small hole low in a corner, and carries on looking broadly fine for another season while balls quietly trickle out the bottom during practice and nobody can agree whether […]
Backyard Lacrosse Setup and How Much Space You Need
Nobody Publishes a Minimum Yard Size, So Let’s Work It Out Properly The question comes up before every goal purchase: is my yard big enough? And the honest starting point is that no governing body answers it. There’s no official minimum for a backyard lacrosse setup, because rulebooks describe fields, not gardens. Every confident number […]
Legal Lacrosse Pocket Test You Can Do Before Tryouts
Ten Seconds at the Kitchen Table Beats Finding Out From an Official There’s a particular flavour of misery in watching your kid get pulled for a stick check. The pocket got deeper over the summer, nobody noticed, and now they’re serving a penalty for something that took ten seconds to check at home. A legal […]
Lacrosse Goalie Equipment and What’s Actually Required
The One Position Where the Rulebook Tells You Exactly What to Buy Most lacrosse equipment decisions are preference dressed up as necessity. Goalie equipment isn’t. Somebody steps into the crease for the first time, usually because nobody else volunteered, and the parent discovers there’s a list — and that parts of the list are written […]
Lacrosse Ball Colors and What’s Legal at Each Level
Yellow, White, Orange, Pink: Somebody Actually Wrote Rules About This A parent buys a six-pack of lacrosse balls in whatever color was on the shelf, hands them over, and finds out at the first game that the officials won’t use them. It’s a small, avoidable annoyance, and it happens because lacrosse ball colors are governed […]
Lacrosse Gifts That Players Actually Use, By Budget
The Best Lacrosse Gift Is Usually the Boring One There’s a version of this list that recommends a gadget. Resist it. The equipment that lacrosse players genuinely use every week is unglamorous, and the flashy alternative tends to get opened, admired and then left in the garage until it’s donated. The most reliable lacrosse gifts […]
Youth Lacrosse Age Groups and What Changes at Each
Your Kid Moves Up a Bracket and Half the Equipment Rules Change With Them The first season is simple because somebody hands you a list. The second season is where it gets confusing, because your child moves up an age bracket and suddenly the stick they have might be too short, the team is playing […]
Lacrosse Field Dimensions for Men’s, Women’s and Youth
The Men’s and Women’s Fields Aren’t the Same Shape, and It’s Not Just the Size Most pages about lacrosse field dimensions give you one number — 110 by 60 — and stop. That’s the men’s field, and it’s correct as far as it goes. It’s also not the field a women’s team plays on, not […]
Starting Lacrosse Late and How to Close the Gap Fast
Nothing in the Rules Slows Down for a Late Starter A thirteen-year-old walking into their first lacrosse practice is standing next to kids who have been playing since they were six. Same drills, same expectations, same stick specification, same ball. Seven years of touches on one side and none on the other, and the session […]
Lacrosse Tryout Preparation and When Tryouts Actually Are
You’ve Probably Already Missed One Tryout Season Most advice about making a lacrosse team assumes tryouts happen in the spring. So a parent reads it in February, starts a six-week plan, and discovers the club their kid wanted held its tryouts in July, for a season that starts this autumn. Lacrosse tryout preparation begins with […]