Are you sitting home this weekend complaining about a weekend without Lacrosse?  Stop complaining and get over to Sammamish for the fourth annual Chumash Shootout sponsored by Issaquah Youth Lacrosse.  Players of all ages love this game, and this event has become a 'must attend' for the Lax junkies in Washington. Registration details below, this is something you don't want to miss!

Everett, Wash. – The National Lacrosse League has a new representative in the Pacific Northwest, and their name is the Washington Stealth. Members of the Washington Stealth were on hand at the Comcast Arena at Everett, the team’s new home, to discuss the team’s relocation and announce their new namesake in a press conference Thursday morning. The team comes to Washington after six seasons in San Jose, Calif.

If you have been paying attention to the news lately (and reading Walax), then you would know all about the Stealth moving to Seattle.  This is both the first NLL team to come to Washington, and professional Lacrosse team of any form, to come to Washington.  That news, while amazing, slightly overshadows a ground-breaking landmark bigger than having a professional team move here.  Washington state now has one of our own native sons playing professional Lacrosse. 

SEATTLE, WA-The Stealth held a press call yesterday to talk about the move from San Jose, CA to Everett, WA noting several factors in the move, tremendous excitement in making the change based on the reception local folks have given in the short time since the decision, and the HUGE potential in the market with a great relationship in the Comcast Center.  NLL Commisioner George Daniel, Johnny Mouradian, President and GM for the Stealth, Stealth CFO David Takata, Vice President and Asst. General Manager Doug Locker, and Head Coach Chris Hall presented a unified front for the success of the moved franchise to Everett.

With all the action that has transpired in the last couple of days, we got a moment to spend with Lax sensation, Paul Rabil.  If you don’t know who Rabil is, you do live in a dark hole.  With the Stealth moving to Everett, Paul spent a few minutes with Walax to give us his thoughts on the move, being a rookie in the NLL, and what is next for one of THE busiest professional Lacrosse players out there.

Thats right sports fans- the wait for a professional Lacrosse team in Seattle is officially over!  After six seasons in San Jose, Ca, the Stealth professional indoor lacrosse team has announced their plans to relocate to the greater Seattle, Washington area.   The Stealth, a member of the National Lacrosse League, are coming off a 2009 campaign in which they advanced to the West Division Finals before being ousted by the eventual NLL Champion, Calgary Roughnecks.

Come out and participate in the University of Washington Middle School Development Camp this summer to engage in a purely developmental experience.

For all of you who wonder just how far the West Coast Lacrosse phenomenon reaches, today at 3pm PST, it officially reached ground zero in the Lacrosse world.  Hall of Fame coach Bill Tierney, who led the Princeton Tigers to 6 NCAA titles since 1989, will now replace Jamie Munro at the University of Denver.

Tonight’s final features the ‘I-90 Rivalry’ between the Mercer Island Islanders and the Issaquah Eagles. Over the past several years these two teams have battled each other for state supremacy. 

In the first final match-up of the evening, the Division II boy’s feature the Cascade conference’s Eastside Catholic Crusaders and Evergreen conference’s Overlake Owls.  It is a game of firsts for both teams- it is the first time these two teams have reached the title game and the first time they have faced each other this season.  It is also the first time that two preparatory schools have faced each other for a title game.  Eastside Catholic is looking for a title in their second year as a program, capping off an undefeated season.