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Women's lacrosse (or girl's lacrosse), sometimes shortened to wlax or lax, is a sport played with twelve players on each team. Originally played by indigenous peoples of the Americas, the modern women's game was introduced in 1890 at the St Leonard's School in St Andrews, Scotland. The rules of women's lacrosse differ significantly from men's field lacrosse. The object of the game is to use a long-handled stick (known as a ''crosse'' or lacrosse stick) to catch, carry, and pass a solid rubber ball in an effort to score by hurling the ball into an opponent's goal. The head of the lacrosse stick has a mesh net strung into it that allows the player to hold the lacrosse ball. Defensively the object is to keep the opposing team from scoring and to dispossess them of the ball through the use of stick checking and body positioning. The rules of women's lacrosse are different from the men's lacrosse game. Equipment required to play is also different from the men's. Women are only required to wear eyewear/lacrosse goggles and a mouth guard. The stick has restrictions too, as it must be a certain length and the pocket not too deep. At the collegiate level in the United States, lacrosse is represented by the National Collegiate Athletic Association, which conducts an NCAA Women's Lacrosse Championship each spring. Internationally women's lacrosse has a thirty-one member governing body called the Federation of International Lacrosse, which sponsors the Women's Lacrosse World Cup once every four years. ==History== (詳細はNative American game which was first witnessed by Europeans when French Jesuit missionaries in the St. Lawrence Valley witnessed the game in the 1630s.〔Vennum, p. 9〕〔Liss, p. 13.〕 These games were sometimes major events that could last several days. As many as 100 to 1,000 men from opposing villages or tribes would participate.〔Vennum, p. 183〕 Native American lacrosse describes a broad variety of stick and ball games played by the indigenous people. Geography and tribal customs dictated the extent to which women participated in these early games.
The first modern women’s lacrosse game was played in 1890 at the St Leonards School in Scotland, where women's lacrosse had been introduced by Louisa Lumsden. Lumsden brought the game to Scotland after watching a men's lacrosse game between the Canghuwaya Indians and the Montreal Lacrosse Club.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=History of Lacrosse at St Leonards )〕 One of Lumsden's students, Rosabelle Sinclair, established the first women's lacrosse team in the United States at the Bryn Mawr School in Baltimore, Maryland.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=History of Bryn Mawr School )〕 Until the mid-1930s, women's and men's field lacrosse were played under virtually the same rules, with no protective equipment. In the United States, the formation of the U.S. Women's Lacrosse Association led to a change in these rules. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Women's lacrosse」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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