It doesn’t matter where Ron John is playing lacrosse or which version of the game he’s playing (field or box); he loves it all the same. John has had a stick in his hands for as long as he can remember. At just three years old, he was having the time of his life playing
When Kyle Jackson’s sister, Karlee, was attending Western University in London, England, she was enrolled in classes that taught her about Native American history. Her brother, Philadelphia Wings forward Kyle Jackson, was inspired by his sibling’s studies because the history she had learned about was their people’s history. Members of the Ojibwe people from the
The Buffalo Bandits took a chance signing Max Adler, a guy who had never played a box lacrosse game in his life. The decision almost won them last year’s NLL Cup. Coming into last season, the Bandits were the odds-on favorites to win it all. Their roster was stacked with the league’s most accomplished goaltender
As the saying goes, ‘Everything is bigger in Texas.’ Well, with Jeremy Thompson playing in Fort Worth for Panther City Lacrosse Club, the Lone Star State has one of the game’s biggest ambassadors for growing the Creator’s Game within Indigenous communities and beyond. The Indigenous communities of Texas do not have the same connection to
Charlie Kitchen spends many of his summer days on the beaches of Atlantic City, New Jersey. Still, in the sweltering sunny season of 2019, Kitchen had a vastly different experience that would change his professional life forever. Midway through his record-setting five-year experience at the University of Delaware – a school that has helped groom
TJ Comizio grew up in Basking Ridge, New Jersey, a town where field lacrosse, not box lacrosse, is the preferred version of the game. In fact, it wouldn’t be until 14 years after he started playing the field game that he would even watch his first box lacrosse match, and that didn’t happen until after
A rookie’s life in the NLL isn’t always all it’s cracked up to be. Despite the tremendous weight lifted off of a player’s shoulders after hearing their name called on draft day, the fight to prove that they deserve to be on the floor with the greatest lacrosse players in the world persists. For defenseman
If it had been almost any other year, Reid Bowering would have been named the National Lacrosse League’s Rookie of the Year last season. Instead, in his first endeavour into the league, the already-elite defensemen found himself receiving no hardware with his name on it. Unfortunately for the rest of the league, the lack of