Dynamic New Sport For 3C2A Schools
Women's lacrosse might be for you! It has a soccer team size roster and will fit on your football or soccer field. Fullerton College is leading the way with their intercollegiate women's lacrosse team competing in the Western Women's Lacrosse League. The near future will see the sport develop into a 3C2A emerging sport. Eventually it will be in 3C2A conferences and a state championship sport.
Roster Size
Community college lacrosse teams can comfortably carry twenty-four women and sometimes more. Adding twenty-four female athletes to your Athletic Department is good for your Form R-4 reporting and your overall Title IX progress. The precedent has been set with success at Fullerton.
CIF Participation
There are C.I.F. high school girls lacrosse programs as booming sources for prospects in Northern California and Southern California. Counties with high school girls lacrosse teams include Alameda, Contra Costa, Fresno, Kern, Imperial, Los Angeles, Merced, Monterey, Napa, Orange, Riverside, Sacramento, San Bernardino, San Diego, San Francisco, San Jose, Santa Barbara, Santa Clara, Sonoma, Stanislaus and Ventura.
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Path To Competition
The existing path to competition, with precedent for it, is the WWLL. It has North, Central and South regions already established. Eventually women's lacrosse will grow into current 3C2A conference alignments but for now you can meet Title IX requirements even before it becomes 3C2A. Get ahead!
Budget & Traditional Season
Women's lacrosse may be sufficiently supported with a budget comparable to your women's soccer budget. Bonus, the traditional season is in the spring. Even if you only have one competition stadium, if you field a football team and two soccer teams in the fall your scheduling can allow for track and women's lacrosse in the spring. It will be a smaller facility impact on spring scheduling than fall scheduling.
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First To Pioneer
Fullerton women's soccer coach Pamela Lewin happened on a lacrosse game at UCSB in 2016 to see the sport in person for the first time. Coach Lewin had also seen the news about the explosion of girls lacrosse in high schools in her district and across the state and thought it would be a great sport at the community college level. Lewin developed a P.E. curriculum that was state approved January 4, 2017. Now Lewin is the head coach at Fullerton for both women's soccer and lacrosse, where it has been intercollegiate since 2018-19. The Hornets use the Western Women's Lacrosse League as their path to competition while waiting for the 3C2A to catch up.
It has been a wonderful experience for our student athletes playing in the WWLL and we have transferred athletes to NCAA and WWLL teams."
Pathway To Four Year Colleges
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Bonus! There's NCAA women's lacrosse and there's NAIA women's lacrosse too. A big role community colleges play is getting students transfered and on their way to a four year school. With women's lacrosse there is a pathway for your students to be recruited and transfer to a four year college to play.
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There's women's lacrosse in these four year school divisions.
NCAA I NCAA II NCAA III NAIA WCLA |
