IF THERE'S A WOMAN:
A Lacrosse Story
It's More Than a Game. It's a Movement.
Lacrosse. It's been called the fastest game on two feet. Playing with sticks
that are 45 inches long, the players whip back and forth a vulcanized rubber
ball at speeds nearing 100 miles an hour.
It’s a game of inches and miles, played on a field so large that it demands the
heart of a long-distance runner and so compact that it requires the intensity of
a sprinter. It has the speed and physicality of hockey, the passing and spatial
strategy of basketball and the field layout and team play of soccer.
Which is why lacrosse is one of the fastest-growing team sports in the US.
And around the world. And why women's lacrosse is growing at a rate even
greater than the men's game.
From the nearly 200,000 girls playing in American clubs and high schools, a
youth movement that is reshaping the game in real time, to the over 500
American women’s college teams, with the number of schools playing
women’s lacrosse more than doubling in recent years.
Coming to Streaming Soon!
Lacrosse - The Medicine Game
(Season 1)
To understand women’s lacrosse, often called The Medicine Game, you will learn that it is more than just played—it’s felt – and it has a transformative power that changes the trajectory of women who live it.
And unlike other sports, the greatest players in the history of the game are now leading the programs that will develop the next generation of the sport’s icons, some of whom will join the women of the more than 90 nations playing for their countries for the first time when women’s lacrosse is featured in the 2028 Olympic Games.
So welcome to women's lacrosse.
And It Doesn't End When the Final Whistle Blows...
The same drive and discipline demanded on the lacrosse field translates
to a new generation of women who are going on to lead in every arena
they enter.
From medicine to marketing, business to coaching, entrepreneurship to
education, these athletes are carrying the mindset of the game into the
world beyond it.
Because women who compete at this level learn how to adapt and excel
under pressure. Every field is different. Every challenge is unique. But the
mentality remains the same: If There's a Woman, There's a Way.
And time and again, when one field ends, another field opens.
“These players have gone on and they're crushing every business field that they're putting their mind to. So when there's a women, there's a way. You're going to find a way, you're going to make it happen, and get it done."
- Cathy Reese, Head Coach, University of Maryland Women's Lacrosse
"When we talk about 'If There's a Woman, There's a Way,' I think that there's a little bit of a belief that women do things differently—and not that we do it better—but that we do it differently. And that there's something beautiful in the way that women do things and how we collaborate, and how there is a lot of emotion into the things that we do."
- Britt Schuit, Head Coach & Director,
Coppermine Lacrosse Club, Baltimore, MD
