Following a week in which the Premier Lacrosse League (PLL) announced their plans to hold a fully quarantined championship tournament this summer, the league and its broadcasting partner, NBC, announced its 2020 PLL Pass will be available in 13 countries outside of the United States. Just like in...
WPLL announces partnership with Nike Lacrosse
Today, the Women’s Professional Lacrosse League announced Nike Lacrosse as the official athletic apparel partner and athletic footwear partner of the WPLL. Nike is now a “Champion” sponsor of the league, and is the first partnership of its kind in professional women’s lacrosse. “The...
PLL announces 2020 Draft plans
The Premier Lacrosse League followed up Wednesday’s PLL Championship Series announcement with an announcement Thursday regarding plans for their 2020 College Draft. The College Draft was originally scheduled for April 21, but was rescheduled after the COVID-19 pandemic caused uncertainty...
PLL pivots during pandemic, announces multi-week tournament to be televised on NBC
The Premier Lacrosse league will have a champion in 2020. After announcing the league was postposing the start of its second season, co-founder Paul Rabil promised there would be some sort of season. Wednesday morning, that revised season began to take shape. The news that an announcement was...
New York Lizards trade Kevin Crowley to Philadelphia Barrage
The Philadelphia Barrage announce that they have acquired Kevin Crowley and the New York Lizards’ fourth round pick in the 2020 MLL Draft. In return, the New York Lizards acquired the third overall pick in the 2020 MLL Draft. The trade gives head coach Spencer Ford and the Philadelphia...
Sweat for Support: Alex Aust and other pro athletes fundraise through online fitness classes
“Through playing lacrosse, I’ve found that nothing bonds and lifts people up more than sweating together.” That was professional lacrosse player Alex Aust’s reasoning behind starting Sweat for Support, a zoom fitness series designed to raise money for various causes through donation...
WPLL launches digital training platform
The Women’s Professional Lacrosse League (WPLL) today announces WPLL+, a virtual online training platform specifically created for and focused on young girls and women lacrosse players. In the wake of the thousands of lost seasons among high school and youth lacrosse players across the country, the...
Chesapeake Bayhawk Ryan Tucker announces retirement from professional lacrosse
Ryan Tucker, former Virginia captain and five-year MLL veteran announced his retirement on Monday. “I believe it is time for me to step away and begin a new chapter in my career,” Tucker said in a statement released through the Bayhawks. Tucker had spent the past three season on the...
Even with 2020 lost, WPLL players look towards a bright future
The 2019 WPLL season set the stage for a 2020 in which the league would make another leap forward. Yet, much like the NCAA and NLL seasons, COVID-19 put a stop to a season that had not even started. Even though many of the WPLL players had expected that the disease would cause the season to take a...
Pro Athletics, New Balance, ECD Lacrosse and other lacrosse manufacturers aid in COVID-19 relief effort
This article was updated on April 23 to include Fourg Athletics’ work in the relief effort. The COVID-19 (coronavirus) pandemic has not only disrupted daily life, but also created a series of economic and logistical problems for many sectors. The sector that has been hit the hardest is the...
