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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 tournament was held in San Diego, California.
The 2010 WLC was held in Manchester, England from July 15 to 24. For the first time, a World Lacrosse Festival was sanctioned to run alongside the world championships. With more nations entering, the Round Robin stage of the tournament featured 30 nations and was split into 7 divisions, considerably larger than ever before
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.
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 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. The team again came in third, winning the bronze medal, and he was named as the Best Attacker and named to the All-World ...
After winning a gold medal at the 2022 U-21 World Lacrosse Championships, where he led Team USA with 18 goals and 25 points, [7] O'Neill was selected to the United States men's national lacrosse team for the 2023 World Lacrosse Championship, being the only college player on the roster and the youngest player to represent the US in a World ...
The World Lacrosse Women's Championship (WLWC), formerly known as the Women's Lacrosse World Cup (WLWC), the international championship of women's lacrosse, is held every four years. From its inception in 1982, it was sponsored by the governing body for women's lacrosse, the International Federation of Women's Lacrosse Associations , until that ...
In 2011, Castro David Onen, who begun playing lacrosse in 2010 scored the first goal in the first lacrosse game to ever be played on African soil, and on July 11, 2014, in Uganda's very first game of the tournament, he scored the first ever goal for an African team in the World Lacrosse Championship, in a 17–1 loss to Ireland, as he ran by ...