March 12, 2023 — Has a 3rd professional girls’s lacrosse promotion materialized?

Over the weekend, a choose group of gamers from the Premier Lacrosse League, a well-backed skilled males’s lacrosse circuit quickly to be taking part in a fifth out of doors season, took its act abroad to play a Japanese all-star crew underneath the proposed Olympic guidelines.

However one hidden facet of that enterprise is the truth that there was a bunch of girls taking part in a Japanese girls’s crew, additionally taking part in underneath Olympic guidelines.

Huh? What’s occurring right here? Isn’t the PLL a males’s-only promotion?

Nicely, there they have been, a bunch of girls carrying uniforms with the identical uniform sponsor (Champion) as the boys, and the identical quantity font as what the boys have been carrying. The names on the again of the jerseys must be acquainted to you: Growney, Watson, Gilbert, Ortega, Mastrioenni, Colson. The crew, referred to as “Unleashed,” beat their Japanese opposition by a rating of 11-7.

If the PLL goes to start out a girls’s promotion, it will be a third skilled girls’s lacrosse effort, alongside Athletes Limitless and By The Execs.

I’m amazed at this feeding frenzy for corporations and enterprise capitalists trying to give feminine lacrosse gamers a chance to make a dwelling taking part in the game they love. I wish to suppose it’s extra than simply an altruistic notion.