History

It all started when…

In the early 2000s Ricardo Acuña, president and founder of CODASPORTS ARGENTINA (Alternative Games and Sports Commission), together with lacrosse enthusiast Scott Hylen, introduced Lacrosse in Argentina. They began a small Box Lacrosse league in Buenos Aires, which lasted a few months and reached up to 30 participants at its peak. The sport then went dormant until its resurgence in 2009 when Acuña, who had moved to the southern province of Chubut, met Rodrigo Miquelarena and offered him a chance to resurface the sport. 

This re-emergence of lacrosse took the shape of a few friends using homemade lacrosse sticks, made from broomsticks and halved laundry detergent containers, to play makeshift pick-up lacrosse. Within a year of this occurrence, with the help of a couple of American reinforcements, Argentina Lacrosse produced its first national team and competed in the 2010 Men’s World Championship in Manchester, England. 

From that moment forward, Argentina Lacrosse Association was formed and men’s teams represented the nation in tournaments in Denver (2014), Mexico (2015), and Israel (2018), while also holding coed in-country tournaments with local club teams from Buenos Aires, Chubut, and Rosario del Tala. 

In 2018, the Argentina Lacrosse Association decided also to start an Argentine National Women’s Team. They asked Holly Reilly, a two-time gold winner with Team USA, and Nico Prandi, a three-time Team Argentina player, if they would take on this project together. They both excitedly accepted the call and in 2019 they got to work. Five years later, the women’s team has participated in one World Championship and two PALA Sixes Cups, finishing in third place in both latter tournaments.