Lacrosse is a team sport of Native American origin played using a small rubber ball and a long-handled stick called a
crosse or lacrosse stick. It is a contact sport
which requires padding, except in the women's version. The head of the
lacrosse stick is strung with loose mesh designed to catch and hold the lacrosse ball.
Offensively, the objective of the game is to score by shooting the ball
into an opponent's goal, using the lacrosse stick to catch, carry, and
pass the ball to do so. Defensively, the objective is to keep the
opposing team from scoring and to gain the ball through the use of stick
checking and body contact or positioning. The sport has four major
types: men's field lacrosse, women's lacrosse, box lacrosse and intercrosse. The sport consists of four positions: midfield, attack, defense, and goaile.
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| Lacrosse at the University of North Carolina |
