Cornell and Syracuse are nearby. Does that give you an idea? I learned to play in college. We played catch outside our fraternity every chance we got. And we had intramural games in the hockey rink. I miss the game a lot.

I never heard of it until I went to high school. My school has a men’s and women’s team and it’s pretty big. Probably just as big as baseball when it comes to spring sports. It is important to note the difference between men’s and women’s lacrosse. At least at my high school, Men’s was much more violent, like hockey.

It’s big here… from middle school through college.

I don’t get the draw, personally. But between working in pediatrics in a hospital and not liking sports where I can’t easily track the ball, I guess it makes sense.

Now soccer… that’s another story. :)

There were girls’ lacrosse teams in the upper school that i was involved with, but it was an independent Quaker day school and not part of the public school system. NE US. The leagues were all made up of local Quaker day schools.

I grew up in Virginia, US, and never heard of lacrosse until attending a college where there was a heavy recruitment in the New England area for their team. Now you have me wondering: is this sport basically restricted to northern regions? What other countries play it?

@Pied_Pfeffer I believe it is a Canadian Native American game. I knew a Canadian family from the Mohawk tribe who told me this. So that is probably why it is more famous up north.
[Addition]: Oh and so you know, I am living in Massachusetts.

We are a large university town so occasionally we will see lacrosse being played on the fields. Then again, we also see quiddich games so there is no accounting for taste.