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The Paseo YMCA opened in 1914, when Julius Rosenwald encouraged Kansas Citians to raise $80,000 toward building a new YMCA. [2] The architect of the Paseo YMCA was local architect Charles A. Smith. In 1920 eight independent black baseball team owners met to form what would become the Negro National League. [3] The facility closed in the 1970s.
Kansas City has had teams in all five of the major professional sports leagues; three major league teams remain today. The Kansas City Royals of Major League Baseball became the first American League expansion team to reach the playoffs (), to reach the World Series (), and to win the World Series (1985; against the state-rival St. Louis Cardinals in the "Show-Me Series").
The following is a list of the 78 schools who field men's lacrosse teams and the 133 schools who field women's lacrosse teams in NCAA Division I competition, plus two schools that have planned to begin fielding Division I women's lacrosse teams in 2026. Conference affiliations are current for the next 2025 NCAA lacrosse season.
A news article from the Kansas City, Kansan dated Feb. 15, 1987, shows a photo of the YMCA in 1911 during the first phase of construction. The building was dedicated on Nov. 20, 1927.
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The Midwest Cities Lacrosse Conference (MCLC) is a senior/post-collegiate men's field lacrosse league based in the Midwestern United States.The MCLC was founded in 1990 as a merger between the "City Division" of the Midwest Club Lacrosse Association and the three-year-old Midwest Club Championship invitational tournament.
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This is a list of National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) schools in the United States and Canada that play lacrosse as a varsity sport at the Division II level. In the 2024 NCAA lacrosse season, there are 77 men's and 121 women's Division II lacrosse programs.