Lacrosse growing across the US with colleges adding programs

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ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — From Florida to Stanford and Albany to Denver, the sport of lacrosse is growing at the college level in the United States.

US Lacrosse, the governing body of the sport, has produced a participation report annually since 2001, and the latest figures show that 39 schools added varsity programs in 2014, bringing the total number of schools playing the game across three divisions to around 450.

That spike included Division I men's programs at Boston University, Furman, Monmouth and Richmond, and women's programs at Colorado, Elon, Mercer and Michigan. In the previous year, 60 new varsity programs were added, including eight in Division I.