United States national indoor lacrosse team

United States national indoor lacrosse team
Medal record
World Indoor Lacrosse Championship
2003 Toronto
2007 Halifax
2011 Prague

United States national indoor lacrosse team is one of the best national lacrosse teams in the world. Although they have never got to the Final, they already proved their qualities with three bronze medals. In comparison with Canada, Americans are much more focused on field lacrosse. Best proof is number of golden medals from World Lacrosse Championships. Team USA consists of professional players, who are members of National Lacrosse League. A lot of players also play in MLL, and are members of field lacrosse national team.

World Indoor Lacrosse Championship

In this competition, Americans have never been able to reach the final. In the first two tournaments, they weren't even close. But in the 2011 FIL World Indoor Lacrosse Championship, they were only few steps from the Gold medal game. In a group, they were beaten by Iroquois only by one goal, 10–11. Their semi-final game was very close too, when they lost to Canada 10–15. In the Bronze medal game, Team USA met Czechs with the result 16–7. Casey Powell was named tournament MVP.

Roster

2011 FIL World Indoor Lacrosse Championship roster

# Pos. Player Team
21 G Erik Miller United States Boston Blazers
00 G Jake Henhawk United States Rochester Knighthawks
29 G Ginny Capicchioni
2 D Chris Schiller (C) United States Rochester Knighthawks
25 D Scott Ditzell United States Rochester Knighthawks
20 D Ryan Hotaling United States Boston Blazers
85 D Mitch Belisle United States Boston Blazers
16 D Joe Smith United States Philadelphia Wings
18 D Jack Reid United States Boston Blazers
10 T Matt Zash United States Philadelphia Wings
9 T Paul Rabil United States Washington Stealth
8 T Greg Downing United States Boston Blazers
42 T Max Seibald United States Philadelphia Wings
81 T Kyle Hartzell United States Washington Stealth
12 T Jarett Park United States Colorado Mammoth
22 F Casey Powell United States Boston Blazers
22 F Bill McGlone United States Philadelphia Wings
27 F Kevin Buchanan United States Boston Blazers
6 F Brian Langtry United States Colorado Mammoth
5 F Sean Morris United States Boston Blazers
26 F Drew Westervelt United States Philadelphia Wings
3 F Matt Alrich United States Philadelphia Wings
17 F Brendan Mundorf United States Philadelphia Wings

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