Ugandan Lacrosse Team Grows the Game
The “Creator’s Game”, otherwise
known as lacrosse, was developed by the Native Americans in the northeastern
part of the US in the states of New York, Pennsylvania, and in Canada in
Ontario and Quebec. It has been said
that it was created as early at 1100 AD and has made a large growth in the sport
in the past century as it is now a large collegiate sport in the NCAA and has a
successful professional league. The
game’s purpose was originally created as a tribute to the religious figure
called the creator and was basically preparing for war. The game made its way to the Olympics in the
early 1900s and had teams from Canada, US, and Great Britain. The game has
grown recently across the United states all the way to California and the
western parts of Canada. Europe has also
had a few nations such as England, Germany, and the Netherlands to name a
few.
The growth
of the game can be attributed to successful lacrosse players moving through the
high school, collegiate, and sometimes professional levels to then go on and
use their knowledge to teach men and women throughout the world. When I thought of globalization and lacrosse
the Ugandan Lacrosse team came to mind as they just recently competed on the
global scale in the FIL World Lacrosse Championships. The men from Uganda travelled more than 8,500
miles to get to Colorado to play various teams throughout the world in
2014. This was such a big deal because
the majority of these men came from poverty and the Joseph Kony-led army
terrorizing their communities. The
coaches of this team include collegiate stars such as Andrew Boston (Delaware),
Tom Schreiber (Princeton), and Tanner Scales (Virginia). These men went through University coming from
wealthy families to teach the men of Uganda the sport of lacrosse.
Globalization
is a main theme of this image as the idea of lacrosse is spread socially
throughout the world. From a game that
originated in northeastern US spread all the way to Africa and made its
appearance on the world stage through the dedication of successful lacrosse
players in the US and Canada. The Ugandan
lacrosse team debut will be remembered forever by the lacrosse world.
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