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MLL Title Game May Help Land Atlanta Franchise

Sunday, August 24, 2014

Major League Lacrosse is holding more than a championship game at Kennesaw State today. It’s hosting an audition to bring a professional team to the Atlanta area. The Rochester Rattlers play the Denver Outlaws to determine the MLL championship. But by 2016 you’ll likely see those teams on a regular basis, when the league would like to have an Atlanta-based franchise.

“There’s a lot of interest in having an MLL team in Atlanta,” commissioner David Gross said. “Our goal is to field a team there in 2016.” There had been

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-Lacrosse Title Game on Tap in Atlanta

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Mid-Week Growth Links

Wednesday, August 13, 2014


-Windsor Mulls HS (Vermont) Adding Lacrosse

-Hart High School (California) Readies to Add Lacrosse

-Hart HS Faces Hurdles in Bid For Lacrosse

-Horry County Schools (South Carolina) Consider Adding Lacrosse

-St. Charles High School (Illinois) Adding Lacrosse

-Coaches Survey on Shot Clock Implementation

-Participation in California Reaches Record Levels

-3D Lacrosse Opens Texas Office

-Kingston, MA Youth Program Continues to Grow

-Inside New York City's Thriving Lacrosse Culture

-Growing Lacrosse in Lake Placid Area

-NLL's Wings Moving to Connecticut

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All Quiet on The Varsity Status Front

Sunday, August 03, 2014

As the summer of 2014 winds down, this websites 5th summer of existence, we have started to notice a (somewhat worrying) trend specific to colleges and varsity status. Frankly, there just seems to be less colleges announcing varsity lacrosse this year than in recent years.

By compiling all the dates of university press releases announcing varsity men's lacrosse, women's lacrosse, or both over the last 5 years we came up with the below data:

Year  Announcements Per Month
2010 1.5
2011 2.4
2012 2.75
2013 2.6
2014 1.5

Now granted 2014 is not over, and is currently in line with 2010s announcement rate, however there is reason to believe it could ultimately end up trending below 2010s rate.  In the four year period from 2010-2013 there was a total of 3 months where there was zero announcements for varsity status.  Halfway through 2014, we already have 3 months this year with zero announcements.

However there are also some reasons to think 2014 could turn things around.  Over the last 4 years the month of August has averaged the greatest amount of varsity announcements (4) in any given month, followed by September (3.25).  The fall months in general tend to be very active for varsity announcements, so here's hoping 2014 ends on a strong note.

So what does all this mean? Who knows, could be nothing.  It's certainly too premature to worry about a slowing in the games growth.  However when you combine this data with the US Lacrosse most recent participation survey that showed in 2013 we had the worst year to year growth since 02-03, it's certainly something to keep an eye on.

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Sunday Lax Links

Sunday, August 03, 2014

-American Football Eyeing 2024 for Olympics as Well

-How to Make Lacrosse Grow in 1983

-3D Lacrosse: Thinking Inside The Box

-Lacrosse Player Drug Use Up

-Ohio Machine Foundation Announced

-Olympic Lacrosse and the Iroquois 

-FIL Working Towards Unified Field Dimensions

-Beninati Joins B1G Network

-Oregon Team Growing Through Club Program

-St. Charles HS (IL) May Add Lacrosse


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