FIL Synot Tip World Indoor Lacrosse Championship - Prague, May 21-28, 2011

The Award Committee appreciated the following individuals: more

By Andy McNamara – The 3^rd FIL World Indoor Lacrosse Championships is officially in the books and the top three nations stay the same as the previous two tournaments. Prague, Czech Republic played the role of host exceptionally well and showcased the country’s passion for box lacrosse. Countless volunteer man hours went into pulling together the WILC and their efforts should be commended. more

By Andy McNamara – Once, twice, three times a world champion! Team Canada has once again proven their box lacrosse dominance by claiming a third straight gold medal at the 2011 World Indoor Lacrosse Championships (WILC). more

Team USA forward Casey Powell has been named the Most Valuable Player of the 2011 FIL World Indoor Lacrosse Championships in Prague. Powell was also named to the All-World Team as he led the Americans’ offense with 16 goals and 15 assists in five games. more

Team USA forward Brain Langtry leaned against the boards of Eden Arena after the United States’ victory over the Czech Republic in the bronze medal game of the 2011 World Indoor Lacrosse Championships in Prague. more

Prague – In National Lacrosse League circles Rhys Duch is known as “The Clutch” for his dramatic goals for the Washington Stealth. Unfortunately for the United States that nickname followed Duch to Prague as his four goals powered Canada to a 15-10 win over Team USA. (Check out the live blog here.) more

The round-robin portion of the 2011 World Indoor Lacrosse Championship (WILC) is over and, to no one's surprise, Canada has looked nothing short of unstoppable. This collection of athletes could quite possibly be the most impressive ever assembled for box lacrosse (of course, the Iroquois Nationals and the United States will still have something to say about that). more

The Czech Republic pulled off a 12-7 upset victory over England in Thursday’s second quarter-final match-up, the victory getting them into tomorrow’s WILC semi-final against the Iroquois Nationals (1PM ET). more

What a great day in Prague. It was the kind of experience I had been waiting for since I arrived on Saturday. With no games on the schedule, Team USA embarked on a 30-minute drive to practice at Radotin, which is an outdoor box facility. more

Team USA dismantled Australia 28-2 in their quarter-final clash earlier this morning, the win sending them into Friday’s (10AM ET) semi-final against WILC favourites Canada, a country they’ve never beaten at the tournament. more

By Andy McNamara - The round robin of the third 2011 FIL World Indoor Lacrosse Championships (WILC) went pretty much as expected. The big three are in the same positions as in 2007, however, the host Czech Republic look much stronger and could make some noise when the playoff rounds begin Thursday. The qualifiers wrapped up Tuesday evening in Prague and a rowdy HC Slavia Praha Arena went home happy as the Czech’s advance to the quarter finals following a dominant outing over Ireland. more

(pch) - On Thursday, May 19, the Czech team led by Jim Veltman will challenge the Canadian National Team in an open-air preWILC warmup show in Radotin Arena. Missed the airplane to Europe? Check the WILC website online stream. The game will be streamed free to test the lines across the ocean. more

(New York, NY) – The 2011 FIL Synot Tip World Indoor Lacrosse Championships might be across the ocean, but lacrosse fans will be closer to the games like never before. Team USA announced today that the National Team will air a week-long radio show to recap all the day’s results, which will complement the pay per view webcasts available at www.wilcprague2011.com . more

Most of Czech national team suited up for an exhibition game against a select team from participants in the annual Ales Hrebesky Memorial, held in Prague at the end of April. There was a guy plaing in a jersey named Benesch. But he certainly was not the best scorer of the NLL Ryan Benesch... more

The live streamed games of the World Indoor Lacrosse Championships will have the play-by-play broadcasts commentated by Andy McNamara, announced tournament organizers. McNamara is the play-by-play commentator for the Toronto Rock of the National Lacrosse League, as well as being an accomplished broadcaster/sports writer for basketball, hockey, baseball, football, and vollebyall on television and radio in the Toronto area. more

The WILC 2011’s Organizing Committee informed that all games from the upcoming World Indoor Lacrosse Championship held in Prague, Czech Republic, will be streamed on-line. This will allow all lacrosse fans to watch their teams anywhere and anytime.  more

With 18 days to go cool down a little bit and take a look to great works of art created by children from WILC partner schools. Check out how Czech kids see the fastest game on two feet. Which artwork is the coolest? See the WILC web Gallery. more

The GM Gewas Schindler of the Iroquois Nationals provided ILIndoor.com with their 31-man roster.  And although nothing has been finalised yet, he hopes that their team will be able to come to Prague and fight for medals. more

Today I had the pleasure to make an  interview with one of the top players in the sport of lacrosse, Brodie Merrill. I asked him about his NLL season and the upcoming World Indoor Lacrosse Games held in Prague, Czech Republic. more

(pch/ps) - The Organizing Committee has informed that the World Indoor Lacrosse Championship to be held in Prague from May 21^st to May 28^th would change the venue to the Eden Arena. A little more humble conditions there would not offer as much comfort for the players but it certainly is a positive change for the spectators. The smaller arena and smaller playing field will undoubtedly offer more intensive experience of indoor lacrosse. more

(ps) - The Czech Lacrosse Union officially announced that Jim Veltman has been named head coach of the 2011 Czech National Indoor Lacrosse Team that will be participating at the World Indoor Lacrosse Championship to be held in May 2011 in Prague, the capital of the Czech Republic. Veltman served recently as head coach of the Ajax-Pickering Rock last summer during the Major Series Lacrosse season in Ontario. more

Less than 24 hours after Insider was made aware of a recent letter distributed by the World Indoor Lacrosse Championship Organizing Committee, the group claiming that no national teams had met their November 30th entry fee deadline, Team USA and now also Team Canada have both confirmed that required fees have in fact been paid, both box lacrosse powers expecting to be in Prague and competing at the international tournament come May 2011. more

While Team Canada Executive Director Dean French described the World Indoor Lacrosse Championship Organizing Committee’s recent statement as creating “unnecessary confusion”, today, the committee says the shake up was in fact very much needed moving forward. more

U.S. Indoor Lacrosse announced the roster for the 2011 World Indoor Lacrosse Championship in Prague, Czech Republic next May. Lacrosse superstars as Casey Powell and Paul Rabil are among the other excellent names. Czech lacrosse fans are thrilled!  more

John Grant, Colin Doyle and Brodie Merrill officially announced as members of Team Canada for upcoming World Indoor Lacrosse Championship that will be held in Prague in May next year. more

The pilot year of European box-lacrosse league finishes on Saturday, November 20th with the final tournament which will give the standings. The final tournament will be played in Pilsner hall Na Košutce, Kralovická 14, Pilsen. more

The head coach of Czech indoor lacrosse team Roman Pokorný evaluates Radotin Cup positively. However, he doesn't overestimate the success. more

The European Lacrosse League semi-final settings are clear after the second tournament of the pilot annual of the competition. Ska Talons will match Blue Warriors and Red Gunners will play White Crystals. The final tournament will be held in Na Košutce arena in Pilsen on November 20–21. more

Lacrosse website NLL Insider posted a video-chat with Chet Koneczny, a member of Czech Team. The video was taped before the start of the training camp of the defending NLL champion Washington Stealth. more

U.S. Indoor Lacrosse (USIL) announced the name of the head coach for the forthcoming world championship in Prague. The team will be lead by former outstanding player Tom Ryan. more

The most prestigious Canadian lacrosse trophy, the legendary Mann Cup, won the home team Peterborough Lakers. In the sixth match of the series they defeated New Westminster Salmonbellies 15 - 9 and gained the most important fourth victory. The sold out Memorial Centre in Peterborough with more than four thousand spectators can after three years celebrate again. more

Czech and European lacrosse supporters can look forward not only to WILC 2011 in Prague but also to another ambitious project. After two years, the „Minileague“ changes to the pilot season of European Lacrosse League. more

Czech national lacrosse team is heading for a first important test during their effort to prepare for the third World indoor lacrosse championship 2011, which will take place in Prague. At the end of September and beginning of October the Team Czech will play at Radotín Cup. more

The world indoor lacrosse championship WILC 2011 which will be for the first time held in the Czech Republic in May 2011 is slowly approaching. The head coach of the Czech team Roman Pokorný thus announced his broader selection and started to prepare his team for the forthcoming championship.  more

For the very first time, national indoor lacrosse teams will convene in a “new lacrosse” country, although lacrosse has been played in the Czech Republic since 1980s. This will be a great opportunity to spread lacrosse awareness both in the Czech Republic and Europe. The Czech Republic has vast experience in organizing international lacrosse events. Apart from already well known field Prague Cup and box Aleš Hřebeský Memorial, which both attract many lacrosse teams and fans from Europe as well as overseas every year, local lacrosse devotees organized the very first European Championship in 1995, European Championship in 2004 and Women’s Lacrosse World Cup in 2009. more