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The 2023 World Lacrosse Championship was the 14th edition of the international men's field lacrosse tournament for national teams organized by World Lacrosse. Initially scheduled for 2022, it was postponed to 2023 due to the COVID-19 pandemic .
The 2023 WLC was held from June 21–July 1, 2023. Pool games and placement games were held at San Diego State University's SDSU Sports Deck and the University of San Diego's Torero Stadium, while playoff games were held at SDSU's Snapdragon Stadium. 30 nations participated in tournament games, marking both the first time qualifiers were used ...
The United States men's national lacrosse team has won eleven of fourteen World Lacrosse Championships, the most recent in 2023. Team USA finished second in the other three field lacrosse tournaments, losing to Canada in 1978, 2006, and 2014. The team is organized by US Lacrosse, the national governing body.
In January 2019, World Games named Staats as their Athlete of the Month. [23] [22] In 2023, Staats again competed for the Haudenosaunee National Lacrosse team at the 2023 World Lacrosse Championship in San Diego, California.
Lacrosse is part of the World Games as an official sport (for women) since the 2017 edition and invitational sport (for men) since the 2022 edition. [1]
It also equalled the number of 4 consecutive victories of the national team which occurred in 2006, 2010 and 2023. At the 2023 World Lacrosse Championship, the Italian national team reached its best result ever after winning the 9th place game against Puerto Rico. [3]
World Lacrosse (WL), formerly the Federation of International Lacrosse, is the international governing body of lacrosse, responsible for the men's, women's, and indoor versions of the sport. It was established in 2008 by the merger of the previously separate men's and women's international lacrosse associations. [ 2 ]
In October 2023, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) officially added lacrosse to the 2028 Summer Olympics held in Los Angeles, California. [25] Whether the Haudenosaunee Nationals—a team not representing a member nation in the IOC—would be allowed to compete as a team in the Olympics remains a point of contention. [ 26 ]