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First PA men's team to win a Division III lacrosse title. Drexel Dragons: 2014: 13-5: First Drexel lacrosse team to make an NCAA Tournament, defeated #4 seed Penn 16 to 11 in the 1st Round at Franklin Field, advancing to their only quarterfinals appearance. Gettysburg Bullets: 2009: 16-4: 2009 Division III National Finalist. Lost finals to ...
Modern day lacrosse descends from and resembles games played by various Native American communities. These include games called dehontsigwaehs in Oee ("they bump hips") pronounced "de-yoon-chee-gwa-ecks", tewa:aráton in Mohawk language ("it has a dual net") pronounced "de–wa–ah–lah–doon", [3] baaga`adowe in Ojibwe ("bump hips") [4] and Ishtaboli or kapucha toli ("little brother of war ...
PIAA's older logo PIAA's current logo. The PIAA was founded in Pittsburgh on December 29, 1913. It is charged with serving its member schools and registered officials by establishing policies and adopting contest rules that emphasize the educational values of interscholastic athletics, promote safe and sportsmanlike competition, and provide uniform standards for all interscholastic levels of ...
[citation needed] Originally lacrosse was only played on the east coast, but it is starting to make a move out to the middle and west of the United States. 750,000 children across the United States played lacrosse in 2015. For junior league lacrosse, the growth rate has been 43% for boys and girls.
The first modern women's lacrosse game was held at St Leonards School in Scotland in 1890. It was introduced by the school's headmistress Louisa Lumsden after a visit to Quebec, where she saw it played. [44] The first women's lacrosse team in the United States was established at Bryn Mawr School in Baltimore, Maryland in 1926. [45]
Franklin Field is a sports stadium in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, at the eastern edge of the University of Pennsylvania's campus. Named after Penn's founder, Benjamin Franklin, it is the home stadium for the Penn Relays, [2] and the university's venue for football, track and field, and lacrosse.
The stadium plays host to a wide variety of events including serving as home to the Villanova Wildcats football, field hockey, lacrosse, and track and field teams. Philadelphia area teams such as the WUSA's Philadelphia Charge and Major League Lacrosse's Philadelphia Barrage have also used the stadium in the past or currently. In the 1960s ...
Lacrosse: Premier Lacrosse League: Subaru Park: Philadelphia Wings: Box Lacrosse: National Lacrosse League: Wells Fargo Center Philadelphia Fight: Rugby league: USA Rugby League: Garthwaite Stadium: Pittsburgh Sledgehammers: Rugby league USA Rugby League Founders Field Pittsburgh Riverhounds SC: Soccer: USL Championship: Highmark Stadium ...