Should Lacrosse Be Taught In Schools Essay

Sprinting down the field, using the last burst of adrenaline. Only seven seconds left on the clock. The ball is launched from one net to another. Will they make it in time? They all sprint down the field. Desperate for an open pass, #6 cuts to the right and runs in for the shot. The ball slowly lands in the back of the stick and quickly makes it’s way out again, and into the goal. What sport did you first think of when you read this? You guessed it. Lacrosse. Lacrosse is a growing sport in the U.S. It has been played for hundreds and hundreds of years, and yet, it is still not an official sport, it’s a club. Lacrosse should be made into an official, school sponsored sport. If lacrosse became a school sponsored sport, it would decrease the cost to play so that it is less expensive and more people would then play because of the affordability, allow the sport to continue to rapidly grow without the difficulty

This creates problems for the team, coaches, and officials. Because it is not school sponsored, no one has a say in which school a student can play for because they don’t have that authority. If someone wants to play for a rival school across the valley that they may not go to, no one can change that. It also makes it so that multiple high schools that want to have their own team can’t because players switch around to whatever high school they suddenly feel like playing at and then they don’t have enough players for a JV and Varsity team. This creates a domino effect when hiring officials, playing in official tournaments, and for any other team involved with playing against the said team. If it was school sponsored, it would organize the teams so that the players would be required to play for the school they go to, not the school of their choice. This would keep everyone organized and make multiple people’s jobs