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Los Angeles Lacrosse

Apr 13, 2013   //   by admin   //   Baseball, Other Features  //  Comments Off on Los Angeles Lacrosse

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Los Angeles lacrosse.

Besides the alluring alliteration of the words when put together, the two ideas couldn’t have been more detached from each other throughout the 20th century.

Over the last decade, however, lacrosse has slowly, but steadily, found a home in the City of Angels, where dedicated members of the community, continue to build and expand youth and high school programs.

Even the University of Southern California has caught lacrosse fever.

When USC named Lindsey Munday, 28, the head coach for its inaugural season of Division I women’s lacrosse, she instantly brought lacrosse credibility to Southern California. On the sidelines, the dark-brown-haired coach with an athletic build can typically be spotted wearing sunglasses and clutching a notebook or clipboard.

“My life is lacrosse,” said Munday. “I still thank my lucky stars every single day that I get to do what I do, because it’s just really fun to work with these girls.” Read more >>

BIO

Aaron Fischman is a sports writer, author, editor and multimedia journalist, who currently hosts the On the NBA Beat podcast, a weekly interview show he co-founded with fellow USC alums Loren Lee Chen and brother Joshua Fischman in advance of the 2015-16 NBA season. On the podcast, he and the crew interview some of the league’s best reporters on their particular beat. Fischman’s first book, A Baseball Gaijin: Chasing a Dream to Japan and Back, an uplifting nonfiction Japanese baseball story, has been nominated for the prestigious CASEY Award for best baseball book of 2024. Read more.