LAX 101

About Lacrosse

Improve Your Balance, Agility, Hand-Eye Coordination

Box lacrosse is a fast paced sport where the best players often look like gazelles, throwing and catching bullet passes in traffic at amazing speeds. In a blink of the eye the ball travels from one end of the arena to the other. The sport combines the tactics of basketball with the speed and aggression of hockey. It's simply a great game to watch and an even better game to play. It's a great way to improve a child's balance, agility, and hand-eye coordination.

Recognize any of these names? Wayne Gretzky, Joe Sakic, Joe Nieuwendyk, Brendan Shanahan, Paul Coffey, Gary Roberts, Tie Domi, Paul Kariya, Rick Nash, Dave Andreychuk, Cliff Ronning, Stan Jonathan, Adam Foote, Brian Bellows, Adam Oates, Gary Leeman, Gerry Cheevers...  All of these players credit Minor Lacrosse to their skills development.

Wayne Gretzky on Lacrosse...

It is interesting to note what hockey great Wayne Gretzky wrote in this National Post column in March, 2000:

"If Sport has a high point of the year, it must be the first week of spring."  "...When I was growing up, I used to love this time of year.  It was when I put my hockey equipment away and I was absolutely ecstatic to see the end of the hockey season.  One of the worst things to happen to the game, in my opinion, has been year-round hockey and, in particular, summer hockey.  All it does for kids, as far as I can tell, is keep them out of sports they should be doing in warmer weather.  I could hardly wait to get my lacrosse stick out and start throwing the ball around.  It didn't matter how cold or rainy it would be, we'd be out firing the ball against walls or working on our moves as we played the lacrosse equivalent to road hockey.  All the good hockey players seemed to play lacrosse in those days and every one of them learned something from the game to carry over to the other - things athletes can only learn my mixing up games they play when they are young."

Wayne Gretzky
NHL Legend
Managing Partner, Arizona Sting
National Lacrosse League

"I'm just glad I played lacrosse. It taught me how to take a check." 
Wayne Gretzky

Participation in the sport of Box Lacrosse has proven to have fewer noteworthy injuries to its players than have been associated with hockey, baseball or soccer.

BOX LACROSSE EQUIPMENT

All players are required to wear helmet and facemask, protective gloves, shoulder and arm pads, and a back/kidney pad, all which must be approved for lacrosse as specified in the CLA Safety and Equipment Policy.