International

Photo Credit: Larry Palumbo Yesterday in the FIL tournament teams made their first marks of the tournament including impressive showings from Israel, Finland and the Iroquois. Netherlands 19 China 4 Scott Janssen led Netherlands with six goals to lead the Dutch past first year China. In their first ever game internationally China only could put up four goals. Tyler Buchan scored four of them. Switzerland 10 Latvia 5 Switzerland opened…

Photo Credit: Di Miller Team Canada (0-1) and Team England (0-1) will search for their first victory at the 2014 Federation of International Lacrosse (FIL) World Championships when the two nations meet Saturday, July 12 at 10 p.m ET (8 p.m. MT). Canada previously dropped a tournament opening matchup versus rival Team USA, losing the game 10-7. While there were lingering questions surrounding the Canadian squad entering the tournament, offensive…

Photo Credit:  Di Miller On July 10, 2014, it was opening day for the 2014 FIL World Lacrosse Championships at Dick’s Sporting Goods Park in Commerce City, Colorado.  Lacrosse fans from across the world have been waiting for this day since the 2010 when Team USA came away World Champions.  This year, there would be a record-breaking 38 teams participating in the games. Opening Ceremonies started with each nation taking…

Co-writen by Matthew Bailey Hi, I am Tyler Buchan with China lacrosse. Its been a long journey for us, but our team has finally come together in Denver. It took some time to find a efficient way to break the communication barrier, as we all come from different parts of the world. As a majority of the team speaks mainly Mandarin and only a little bit of English, this was…

Day two of the FIL tournament is here with the United States defeating Canada yesterday 10-7. Today the rest of the countries kick off, including the Iroquois. Early Games 10am- Netherlands vs China 10:30am- Latvia vs Switzerland 11am- Italy vs Norway 11am- Bermuda vs France 11am- Wales vs Russia Game to Watch: Netherlands vs China. The Netherlands are a decent team and it should be interesting to see where China is…

The German National team camp started on July 1 at Colorado College where we have had two-a-days since. Being that I had an MLL game July 3 I was not able to make it out to Colorado until July 5. I landed that night where I was informed we scrimmaged BYU and pulled away with a 7-5 victory. My first day of practice on July 6 we had breakfast at…