Northwest Lacrosse News

Danish National Men's Lacrosse Team added to 2006 World Cup Competition
The Danish Lacrosse Federation announced today that it has been elevated to full member nation status by the International Lacrosse Federation (ILF) and thus is now eligible to participate in the upcoming ILF World Cup of Lacrosse to be held in Ontario, Canada during the summer of 2006. Denmark was added to the ILF as a full member nation along with Finland, the Netherlands and Italy at the recently held ILF meetings in Prague concurrent with the European Championships.

"We are very proud to become full members of the ILF and look forward to competing against the world's best in 2 years in Canada" said Janus Herholdt, President of the DLF, "This accomplishment is the result of lot of hard work by the DLF to grow the sport of lacrosse here in Denmark over the past few years."

Concurrently, the DLF also announced the appointment of Matt Cone as head coach of the Danish National Men's lacrosse team for the upcoming World Cup. Matt is the former head lacrosse coach at Seattle Prep HS and is a founder of the Crease Monkeys World Team.

The Danish National Team will train the next 2 years in Copenhagen and plans to participate in various warm-up tournaments in Europe next summer leading up to the 2006 World Cup. Interested players with Danish Passports are encouraged to visit the DLF website at www.danishlacrosse.com to learn more about team tryouts.

Interested? Please contact national coach Matt Cone