NLL Season 2026-27 Start Date and Box Lacrosse Guide
The NLL Is Back November 28. Here’s What Box Lacrosse Can Teach Your Field Game Last verified: October 14, 2026 The field goes quiet after fall ball. The grass gets crunchy, the cones go back in the garage, and the stick sits by the door a little longer each week. Then, right after Thanksgiving, the […]
Lacrosse in the Olympics 2028 Dates, Sixes and Qualifying
Lacrosse Is Going Back to the Olympics. Here’s the Whole Road to LA28 Last verified: October 14, 2026 Every lacrosse kid has heard the line from a grandparent at some point: “Is that even in the Olympics?” For more than a century, the honest answer was no. That changes in Los Angeles, and the road […]
High School Lacrosse Tryouts 2027 Dates and Prep Timeline
Tryouts Start Sooner Than You Think. Here’s How to Walk In Ready Last verified: October 14, 2026 There’s a particular kind of quiet on the first day of tryouts. Forty players, one field, a coach with a clipboard and no idea yet who belongs where. High school lacrosse tryouts are short, and the first impression […]
Winter Lacrosse Training Plan for Spring 2027 Tryouts
Cold Hands, Quick Sticks: A Winter Plan That Shows Up in March Last verified: October 14, 2026 The first practice of spring always tells you who touched a stick over the winter. It isn’t subtle. Some players catch everything on the first day, and some spend two weeks getting their hands back while the roster […]
Lacrosse in Cold Weather and What It Does to Your Gear
Your Ball Is Certified for 72 Degrees and Nothing Else Here’s a detail that doesn’t appear on any packaging. Before a lacrosse ball is tested for certification, it sits for at least 24 hours at 72 degrees Fahrenheit, give or take four, at controlled humidity. Every number it earns is earned in those conditions. Which […]
Lacrosse Goal Cost and What Actually Drives the Price
Four Goals, One Photo, Wildly Different Prices Line up four lacrosse goals in a product grid and they look like the same object. Same six by six opening, same orange pipe, same white net. Then lacrosse goal cost turns out to span a range of roughly ten to one from the cheapest to the dearest, […]
When to Replace Lacrosse Balls and How to Tell
Nobody Is Coming to Tell You That Ball Is Finished Every rulebook in the sport says the ball must meet the NOCSAE standard. Not one of them says how anybody would know whether it still does. That gap is the real reason knowing when to replace lacrosse balls is left entirely to you, and why […]
What Lacrosse Balls Are Made Of and Why It Matters
There’s Nothing Inside a Lacrosse Ball, and That’s the Whole Design Cut one open and you find no core, no winding, no bladder, no seam. What lacrosse balls are made of is a single piece of solid rubber all the way through, which is why they weigh what they weigh and hurt the way they […]
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 […]