How did you find out about lacrosse?

[JedimasterKyle]

How or why did you start playing lacrosse? I was a freshman in HS when my friend told me to play because he was. I had no clue what it was and joined a few weeks after prcatice had started, so I had to sit out the first 2 games. I have loved it ever since.

[fenwicklax89]

a kid down my street was about 10 years older than i was and was a memeber on the local hs varsity team. all the younger kids on the block (including me) always saw him playin and went to games at the park to see the team play. we all bought sticks from play it again and had pickup games at the park. we had no idea what we were doin but it was still fun. 2 years later i played in a mini camp through the park district. after about 3 years of that i got a lot better and now im playin year round on traveling teams and started on JV as a freshman in hs.

[eamiddy16]

one of my teamates from soccers older brother coached lacrosse and he asked me to come out and play for him and at the time i wanted to play a sport off highschool soccer season and lacrosse fell into that time and so i showed up clueless and i ended up playing practicing hard and starting everygame so i guess we will have to see how it is next year

[roycegracie47]

When my family moved to our current house (of which I am desperate need of money to leave) my neighbors were going from St. John's for elementary to Mater Dei to G'town Prep. We played all sorts of sports together but every spring lax took priority and me and the youngest of them became hitting dummies for the older two, so we had to work stick skills on out own.

[swordsman]

i started playing in 5th grade. I had a friend who'd been playin since 2nd rade who told me to join. I was also going to be playing little league. He made a bet with me that if I tried both at the same time I'd fall in love with Lacrosse. He won $20, but I won a reat sport.

[LymanLax28]

I have no idea where I first heard about lacrosse. I just remember around 5th grade I thought it sounded really cool and I wanted to play. But, since it wasn't really that available down here I started to play hockey. My freshman year in HS (last year) was the first time I ever had a chance to play, so I started then.

[tomahawks11]

its our national sport here in canada even though most kids play and think its hockey. LACROSSE IS OUR NATIONAL SPORT!!!!i just heard about it when i was 4 and i have loved the game ever since

[justlaxin484]

around sixth grade i did some camps then really started playing last year (8th grade) then freshman year i was captain of the team and one of the top 3 players and next year lookin to play varsity

[NY Lax 4]

my dad bought me a shockwave in 2nd grade(he played lax at albany in college) and i have been playing ever since

[Nbenn]

Saw a few games in high school but never really got into until college (went to Hopkins, so you can't help but get into lax!). Go Jays!

[x-man]

my whole family is addicted i was born into it

[TLax17]

American Pie when the dude played haha

[Mavido]

I was born with a lacrosse stick in my hands, uncomfortable for my mother to have a child with a lax stick in his hand? i think so..

Eww.....

So.. uh been playin for 13 years.. i guess im just the man.

[Ram-X-Man]

I started playing in 7th grade because I moved from MIchigan to Texas and my mom wanted me to meet some new people. She made me play yet her plan backfired because now lacrosse is all i care about and she hates all my friends on the lacrosse team.

[LAX4531]

Saw a few games in high school but never really got into until college (went to Hopkins, so you can't help but get into lax!). Go Jays! wow wow wow so did yo uplay for hopkins

[syracuselax3]

A kid on my street carried his stick everywhere and it looked cool so i bought a stcik and started playing

[RockfordAttack9]

The 2003 Championship Game was the first time I saw Lacrosse. I remember that I wanted to be a Goalie like Tillman Johnson, but then after watching Mark Millon that summer I decided to play Attack. The first year I played I was the only 7th grader to try out for our A team.

[3rdPersonPlural]

I was walking down from track practice and the varsity Lacrosse team was scrimmaging on one of the lower fields near the campus. I wasn't paying much attention until a loose ball rolled to the sidelines near where I was and two seniors who I held in high esteem pounced on it not 10 feet from me.

I was transfixed. This was a game that I could see myself playing. I walked straight on down to the school store and bought the latest Brine PL66 with a wooden shaft

[moorestown midi]

flyer went out when i was in 4th grade and ive been playing ever since

[Attack027]

MY friends bro played lacrosse at college and the game was so intense and fast. i was like thats what i wanna play

[pantherLax]

no1 in the school ever played lacrosse b4, and this year was the first season for boys lacrosse. it was 7th to 9th graders so i joined cuz i like sports and wanted to play one but in the spring its usually baseball but i suck at it. so it was lax

[LaX303]

my brother played all threw highschool

[DC33]

I went to public schools until high school, and in DC lacrosse isn't offered in public schools. So i came to my high school, and my freshman year come springtime i saw the lacrosse team practicing and i thought it was really interesting. So i started this year as a sophomore.

[LAXative]

i was never really athletic before i started playing because i literally thought every other sport sucked . i almost played baseball *cringe* but my neighboor started and i was like dang thats f'ing cool and i played it. it's still f'ing cool...

[laxersk8erguy8]

In 3rd grade our town tried to start up a team, and they had 9 guys. They told me they needed 10 so I joined. 5th year now, think it's the greatest sport ever.

[Levin]

I saw a game once on tv, and thought it looked like so much fun... then years later my school starts up a team, and of coarse i joined up, even though i knew absolutly nothing about the game...

[ViewLax9]

in 4th grade i was in lake placid ny for a hockey tournament and i picked up a sniper on a al6000. it cost me $80!

[redsox5459]

i found out about it when i got into 7th grade
but i decided to play after i saw an mll game on tv

[HdGLaxWarrior]

wow wow wow so did yo uplay for hopkins

No, he just went.

[demongoalie]

my neighbors played and it looked like fun so i went and bought a stick. Then abuot a year later i went to a camp. Then i played for my school team and that's how i started goalie cause we needed one and i volunteered and i loved it and stuck with it

[laxdudesvn2]

my friend told me about it a couple years back and I went to a couple of the practices and instantly fell in love.

[laxliveit]

Went to a multi-sport camp that had lacrosse, I was interested (but I was good at baseball and there was no team) but I still played baseball :thumbsdown:. Then a friends dad started up a team, and my mom made me switch :thumbsup: :worship:

[AggieLax]

I'd seen a couple of games on TV and stuff, but first really got interested in it when I met my girlfriend...she played in high school and was a baller, then played at A&M for a year, so I got interested in it because of her, and now I'm pretty sure I'm more obsessed with lacrosse than she is...

[LaxAttack2]

started in 5th grade when my sister brought home a stick that she borrowed from one of her classmates who helped start the team at my middle school, so ever since then i'v been hooked

[aussielax]

yeah both my parents played so when i was little i used to go watch lax games all the time so i've been hooked ever scence i was a little kid and im sure i will continue to play for many more years.

[thunder_15]

family tradition. my gampa played then me dad played now its me

[laxfolife24]

my neighbor, who was like my brother at the time got a lacrosse stick and since he had one i had to get one. and it was weird like i didn't have to beg my mom to get me one like i usually do she just took me out and i got a stick. we started playing in his backyard everyday and then i just started going to camps and it took off from there. now i cant get away from it, my stick is like attached to me...

[TweeK]

i was just sweeping trough channels when i was 11 and then i saw the toronto rock playing, i decided i wanted to play and ive been lovin it ever since.

[yeti19]

I play poker with the then captain of the university team and he eventually got me to come down to give it a try.

I now captain the team!!

[Mr. Big]

Sadly, I have never played this game I so love. Growing up in Baxley, Georgia, lacrosse was not ever even mentioned as a sport. Today, the sport is growing. Unfortunately, small town Georgia is still left behind. I had hoped to get lacrosse to south GA, but the battle is difficult. Few parents have ever seen a game and money for league starup is just not there. I hope as the sport grows and gets more television exposure, so will the opportunity for youth in rural areas grow.

[faceoff23]

i first found out the game by my next door neighbor....may he r.i.p.

[GBaschski]

My older brother played when we lived in New York, and I was really little. Then we moved to North Carolina, and he achieved the single season scoring record for his highschool...he was one of the best in the city. He kept trying to get me to play, and since I sucked at every other sport except Tennis, I said 'what the hell', started playing lacrosse and now I'm so obsessed it's scary.

[SharpShooter3]

My cousin was on the Dartmouth Lacrosse Team when I was in 3rd grade. I went to every single Big Green game and was hooked. I have been playing ever since. Speaking of my cousin, he had a hat trick against 'Cuse :loser:

[laxwizard]

In 3rd grade a kid on my baseball team played and I thought it would be cool.

[lax save man]

my cousin brought at the time what i thought was a funny old fishing pol then he told me about it and i learned and delvoped and thats how i started

[fcalaxplaya]

my brother showed me the game, its a great sport

[Longpole5435]

My dad played in college and I have had a Lax stick in my hands since i was in Kindergarten.

[Warrior]

I heard about it in an afterschool program in 4th grade where we used girls sticks and just threw around for a day because the afterschool teacher wanted to get to football...It was pretty cool for something to do afterschool when waiting for a ride...Then in 8th grade we were playing flag football in gym but our coach let us play tackle i ended up leveling someone and since he was the lacrosse coach he said i should come play d and be an enforcer...I went out that week and didnt know anything about the sport so i bought a short pole...played attack instead and i started playing freshmen year

[playwithpride14]

I saw a game on TV when i was in 4th grade. I needed to do it. But my town doesn't have a team. My neighboring town wouldn't let me play until after we pestered them for three years and started playing in 7th grade. Went straight to the A team and played first line midfield and I now have a ton of friends in my high school and our sister school who are just as obcessed as me

[treysentio]

my neighbors who played lacrosse for ayear

[ADKlax24]

I just didnt like all the other sports. I tried soccer, baseball, basketball(still like to play pick up) and hated all of it. All my friends had started playing so in 5th grade i entered into the rec league. Then i found out the captain of the varsity team lived behind my house so he started teaching me stuff and ive been playing ever since.

[ndawg247]

my soccer coach had 2 boys going to stephans, both on full rides playing lacrosse, she had a boy my age that had played since third grade, they were great family friends and convinced me to play, i started in 6th grade, me and her son(who has 3 years on me) both started attack every game and dominated, i'll be playing vars as a freshmen now

[26laxman26]

My school just started last year and a few of my friends decided to play and they tried to get me to too. i told them that i didnt want to but then a few months later my dad saw it in our newspaper and told me about it again. so i decided to play and ever since then ive been hooked. and let me tell you, im so glad our school got lacrosse, cuz if they didnt, i was gonna try our for baseball that year. GASP! lol

[lvillelax21]

i had a freshman convention at my high school to sign up for sports, and my
8th grade football coach is the JV coach. He told me to sign up and gave me a stick
Ive been obsessed ever since.

[gclark94]

I got bored of soccer in 5th grade and wanted to play something else and the only other sport other than baseball really was lacrosse. Seeing that i live in georgia not many people that I new played lacrosse so i had no idea what it was and did not pick up a stick until the first practice

[Prof. Mushroom]

When I was about 11, I went to an event at a local park and there was a kid there trying to get people interested in lacrosse. We were playing with cheap, plastic Walmart sticks though, but playing with those cheap, plastic Walmart sticks made me realize I thoroughly enjoyed the sport. So, as soon as the "intense" pick-up game was done. I asked my mom to drive me to Walmart, to pick up one of these cheap, plastic Walmart sticks (for only $7! Amazing...:P). Soon after, I realized that there were actually real sticks out there so I got on Ebay and purchased my first stick. There is really nothing out here in South Dakota, the center of the lacrosse universe, except for a couple college club teams. I have actually been lucky enough to start practicing with the University of South Dakota club team. But someday maybe...