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The Six Nations Rebels are a Junior "B" box lacrosse team from Six Nations 40, Ontario, Canada. The Rebels play in the OLA Junior B Lacrosse League.
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Initially named the Six Nations Red Rebels. The Red Rebels follow in the tradition of the Six Nations Arrows. After years of success on the Six Nations 40 Reserve, in 1996 it became clear that it was time to add a second tier of Junior lacrosse to the region.
This theory was proven when the Red Rebels won the National title, the Founders Cup in only their second year of existence by defeating the favoured Orillia Rama Kings 9-7 in a thrilling Overtime Gold Medal match at the Mimico Arena in 1997. The Red Rebels finished the Round-Robin portion of the Founders Cup tournament with a 4-and-1 record. The Red Rebels met the host, Mimico Mountaineers and were pushed to overtime where they prevailed with a 7-6 win over a young netminder, Anthony Cosmo.
The Red Rebels won their 1st J. A. MacDonald Trophy as the Ontario Jr B Champions in 1998. The Red Rebels forced to play for the Bronze Medal as a result of a tie-breaking formula after the Clarington Green Gaels and the Iroquois Lacrosse Association finished in a 3-way tie for first-place at the Founders Cup championship held in Akwasasne. The Red Rebels defeated the Edmonton Miners 12-10 to win the Bronze Medal that season.
The Rebels dropped the term Red from their name prior to the 2002 OLA Jr B Regular season. The Rebels made a run during the 2003 season, however, the upstart Barrie Tornado won the hard fought five game Ontario Jr B championship series. Barrie went on to win the Founders Cup that year.
The Rebels did not made a serious run again until the memorable 2007 season. After start the regular season by dropping two of their first three games, the Rebels proceeded to go unbeaten in regulation time the rest of the season to finish with a 17-and-3 record for 1st-place in Western Conference. After sweeping the 8th-seed, Hamilton Bengals in the opening round, Six Nations found a tough veteran-laden Owen Sound Rams squad in their path. The Rebels took the opening game relatively easy, but in game two Owen Sound upset Six Nations with a 9-7 overtime victory. The series returned to the Gaylord Powless Arena where the Rebels proceeded to take game two 10-6 and game three 14-7 to advance to the Western Conference Final against the Windsor AKO Fratmen. Six Nations would sweep the series but it was not an easy task winning 6-4, 9-3 and 6-5 over the tough Fratmen to advance to the Ontario Final against the undefeated Clarington Green Gaels. The Green Gaels were perfect through the regular season (20-and-0) and reached the Ontario Final in the minimum nine games. The Rebels shocked the favoured Green Gaels by winning 8-6 at the Bowmanville complex of game one. Six Nations returned to the Gaylord Powless Arena and won game two 10-7 before being pushed to overtime in game three on the Green Gaels home floor. However, the Rebels prevailed to win 9-6 to claim their 2nd J. A. MacDonald Trophy as Ontario Jr B Champions and the right to represent Ontario at the Founders Cup in Kamloops, B.C. The Rebels were dominating throughout the tournament by outscoring the seven teams they faced by a combined 86-25 at the Canadian Lacrosse Association Jr B Championships. Six Nations Rebels were crowned the best Jr B team in Canada following their 8-2 romp over the Coquitlam Adanacs to win the 2007 Founders Cup championship held at the MacArthur Sports Center. This is the second time the Rebels have won the Founders Cup in franchise history.
The 2008 season had high expectation of the Rebels this season and the team did not disappoint their fans as they completed their 1st perfect Regular season in franchise history by winning all 20 games to be seeded 1st throughout the Ontario Jr B playoffs. Six Nations set a team record by allowing only 89 goals in the 20 regular season games which challenged the 1989 record of 84 goals allowed by the goalie tandem of Stephen Dietrich and Bob Watson of the Kitchener-Waterloo Braves. The Rebels road to their 2nd consecutive J. A. MacDonald Trophy was not as smooth as the regular season. Six Nations began with a 3-game sweep of Wallaceburg Red Devils. The Rebels won the 1st game of the next series against the Windsor AKO Fratmen. However, the Rebels calendar year of being perfect would come to an end on same August 15 that they had last felt the sting of a defeat as Windsor won game two 7-6 to tie the series at one game apiece. Six Nations would win the next two games 10-7 and 10-4 to advance to the Western Conference Finals against the red hot, Elora Mohawks. The Mohawks were riding a 13-game winning coming into the series. Elora upset the Rebels 11-10 in the series opener at the Gaylord Powless Arena and followed up a with 9-6 win at the Elora Community Centre to lead the series 2-0. With their backs to the wall, Six Nations played a more desperate game in Game 3 to come away with a 10-4 victory. Back in Elora the Rebels kept rolling with a 12-7 triumph to force a Game 5. Six Nations completed their comeback with a 7-6 thriller as Cody Johnson would net the series winner with 45 seconds left on the clock to advance to the Ontario Jr B Final against the Halton Hills Bulldogs. The Rebels won the Ontario Jr B Final in four games over the Bulldogs to advance to the Founders Cup being held in Guelph.
The Rebels breezed through the round-robin portion of the Founders Cup tournament which was being hosted by the Guelph Regals. Six Nations defeated Longueil Patriotes 14-2, Port Coquitlam Saints 9-3, Saskatchewan SWAT 19-2, Calgary Mountaineers 9-3 and Calgary Chill 17-4. The Rebels met up with the PoCo Saints in the Semi-Final and came away with a 10-3 triumph which would set up an All-Ontario final against the host Regals. The Rebels jumped out to a 4-1 over the Regals during the first period of the Founders Cup championship game. However, the improved Guelph Regals battled back to tie the game midway through the third period a 6-6. Just when talk of overtime became part of the conversation, Rebels Torrey VanEvery put the Rebels up 7-6 and Gold Medal game MVP, Jeremy Johns would add the eventual game-winning-goal for a 8-6 with less than two minutes remaining. The Regals would add a goal at the buzzer for an 8-7 final. The Rebels became the 1st team since the 1994-1995 Orillia Kings to win back-to-back J. A. MacDonald Trophy and Founders Cup titles.
After defeating Halton Hills Bulldogs in the best of five game series the Rebels earned their ticket to the Founders Cup to be held in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. The Rebels breezed through the round robin earning a perfect 5-0 record, giving them a by into the finals. In the finals the Rebels faced the Calgary Mountaineers, the Rebels won the game 14-11 to win the franchises 4th Founders Cup.
The Rebels are set to host the 2012 Founders Cup Tournament at the Iroquois Lacrosse Arena.
Note: GP = Games played, W = Wins, L = Losses, T = Ties, Pts = Points, GF = Goals for, GA = Goals against
| Season | GP | W | L | T | GF | GA | PTS | Placing | Playoffs |
| 1996 | 22 | 5 | 17 | 0 | 240 | 330 | 10 | 7th OLA-B West | DNQ |
| 1997 | 22 | 18 | 4 | 0 | 305 | 198 | 36 | 1st OLA-B West | Lost Final, Won Founders Cup |
| 1998 | 24 | 18 | 6 | 0 | 279 | 200 | 36 | 3rd OLA-B West | Won League |
| 1999 | 21 | 10 | 11 | 0 | 232 | 214 | 20 | 6th OLA-B West | Lost 1st Round |
| 2000 | 21 | 11 | 9 | 0 | 222 | 179 | 22 | 4th OLA-B West | Lost Quarter-final |
| 2001 | 20 | 14 | 5 | 1 | 227 | 182 | 29 | 4th OLA-B West | Lost Quarter-final |
| 2002 | 22 | 13 | 9 | 0 | 246 | 199 | 26 | 6th OLA-B West | Lost 1st Round |
| 2003 | 20 | 16 | 2 | 2 | 271 | 157 | 34 | 2nd OLA-B West | Lost Final |
| 2004 | 20 | 15 | 5 | 0 | 236 | 164 | 30 | 4th OLA-B West | Lost 1st Round |
| 2005 | 20 | 11 | 8 | 1 | 180 | 174 | 23 | 4th OLA-B West | Lost Quarter-final |
| 2006 | 20 | 10 | 10 | 0 | 193 | 175 | 20 | 9th OLA-B West | DNQ |
| 2007 | 20 | 17 | 3 | 0 | 203 | 117 | 34 | 1st OLA-B West | Won League, Won Founders Cup |
| 2008 | 20 | 20 | 0 | 0 | 215 | 89 | 40 | 1st OLA-B West | Won League, Won Founders Cup |
| 2009 | 20 | 13 | 6 | 1 | 171 | 102 | 27 | 3rd OLA-B West | Western Conference Finalist |
| 2010 | 20 | 20 | 0 | 0 | 247 | 108 | 40 | 1st OLA-B West | Western Conference Finalist |
| 2011 | 20 | 19 | 1 | 0 | 326 | 135 | 38 | 1st OLA-B West | Won League, Founders Cup |