Lacrosse in Australia - List of South Australian Lacrosse Premiers, List of Victorian Lacrosse Premiers (Paperback)

Chapters: List of South Australian Lacrosse Premiers, List of Victorian Lacrosse Premiers, List of Western Australian Lacrosse Premiers, List of Australian Lacrosse National Champions, List of Australian Lacrosse Best and Fairest Players, Australian Lacrosse League, List of Australian Club Lacrosse National Champions. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 40. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Lacrosse is a minority sport in Australia. It has a long and proud history dating back to 1876, with a small but dedicated community of participants and volunteers. The established centres for the game are in the greater metropolitan areas of Melbourne, Adelaide, and Perth. In these cities there are organised Saturday field lacrosse competitions for men and women at senior and junior levels, played over the winter months (April until September). In the off-season, there are informal box lacrosse and sofcrosse competitions, though the majority of players in Australia are foremostly of the field lacrosse type. Some lacrosse is also played in Sydney, Brisbane and Hobart, although it is very much at the developmental level. Lacrosse in Australia is now governed by a single governing body, following the merger of Lacrosse Australia and Women's Lacrosse Australia, who had until 2008 governed the men's and women's versions of the games independently. The move to a unified national body was precipitated by the withholding of funds by the Australian federal government. The pioneer of lacrosse in Victoria (and Australia as a whole) was a Canadian, Lambton L. Mount. He came to the Victorian goldfields as a fourteen year old with his family in 1853 but it was not until 1875 that he was moved to revive his early boyhood memories of lacrosse. After watching the football final between Carlton and Melbourne in tha...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=386503