The Amazing Growth of Lacrosse
Lacrosse has grown at a high level since records have been kept starting in 2001 by US Lacrosse. While the majority of lacrosse is still played on the East coast lacrosse is still making inroads in the Midwest, South, and the West coast.
As athletes continue to grow past 7 feet in basketball and 300lbs in football is no big deal it is interesting to look and see who is playing lacrosse. A lacrosse player is seldom over 185lbs for a men’s lacrosse player and 150lbs for a women’s lacrosse player. Now before any women’s lacrosse players feel like I am calling them fat I am just using what I have personally see to be the average.
With lacrosse in its infancy (still) in has become the sport for the average joe who has not played sports all their life therefore cannot make the elite teams of other sports. Although we are seeing a good cross section of athletes from other sports as lacrosse starts providing a larger pool of scholarships to a smaller pool of players.
Below are some number from the US Lacrosse web site that show the growth of lacrosse over the last several years.
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