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The 2023 World Lacrosse Championship was the 14th edition of the international men's field lacrosse tournament for national teams organized by World Lacrosse. Initially scheduled for 2022, it was postponed to 2023 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The tournament was held in San Diego, California.
The World Lacrosse Men's Championship, [1] formerly World Lacrosse Championship, is the international men's field lacrosse championship organized by World Lacrosse that occurs every four years. The WLC began before any international lacrosse organization had been formed.
The United States men's national lacrosse team has won eleven of fourteen World Lacrosse Championships, the most recent in 2023. Team USA finished second in the other three field lacrosse tournaments, losing to Canada in 1978, 2006, and 2014. The team is organized by US Lacrosse, the national governing body.
The Italy men's national lacrosse team represents Italy in international lacrosse competitions. It is organized by the Federazione Italiana Giuoco Lacrosse. It has participated in 4 World championships and 5 European championships. It was initially formed exclusively by naturalised players due to the almost total absence of the discipline in Italy.
The Haudenosaunee Nationals Men's Lacrosse Team, formerly known as the Iroquois Nationals, represents the Iroquois Confederacy in international field lacrosse competition. They are currently ranked third in the world by World Lacrosse after winning Bronze at the 2018 World Lacrosse Championship .
World Lacrosse (WL), formerly the Federation of International Lacrosse, is the international governing body of lacrosse, responsible for the men's, women's, and indoor versions of the sport. It was established in 2008 by the merger of the previously separate men's and women's international lacrosse associations. [ 2 ]
In 2011, Castro David Onen, who begun playing lacrosse in 2010 scored the first goal in the first lacrosse game to ever be played on African soil, and on July 11, 2014, in Uganda's very first game of the tournament, he scored the first ever goal for an African team in the World Lacrosse Championship, in a 17–1 loss to Ireland, as he ran by ...
In January 2019, World Games named Staats as their Athlete of the Month. [21] [20] In 2023, Staats again competed for the Haudenosaunee National Lacrosse team at the 2023 World Lacrosse Championship in San Diego, California. The team again came in third, winning the bronze medal, and he was named as the Best Attacker and named to the All-World ...