(11-24-2017 12:02 AM)Mav Wrote:  The sport's growing rather slowly in Nebraska. The high school club league consists of one team in Lincoln, three in the Des Moines-Ames corridor, six in the Omaha area, and one traveling team. It doesn't speak well to the sport's health west of the Mississippi for it to be like that, but it wasn't that long ago that the sport was a non-factor west of the Appalachians, so these things take time, I guess.

I think the growth of the women's sport has more to do with Title IX concerns than the sport itself.

Women's lacrosse at the college level definitely benefits from the need to offset the huge number of scholarships that football soaks up, no doubt. However, having gone to high school in Connecticut (which is to say, somewhere lacrosse is reasonably widespread) girls' lacrosse seemed to be a bit more popular, or at least more participated-in, at the high school level than boys'. Just an anecdotal observation, though.