If You Want to be “Faster - Stronger - Fitter”, Play the “Fastest Game on 2 Feet”!

Female Box LAX has evolved over the years to be the perfect “Spring Season” augment for athletes participating in many other sports.  It requires, “speed-quickness-endurance-strength-teamwork-toughness” and most importantly tremendous “eye-hand” coordination to be able to move at speed with pressure.  The plays utilized both offensively and defensively are very similar to basketball.

The key difference as compared to the “boys” game is the strict enforcement of the “place and push” checking rule.  The rule states that the stick cannot be placed on the opposing player with any “force”, once placed you can push/steer.

Why are Canadian girls sought after by United States colleges?

Most of the Canadian girls playing the “Women’s” version of Field LAX are also Box LAX players.  This gives our girls an advantage of learning a much different game with many transferrable skills.  Although the Field game is completely different than Box, many of the skills required in Box LAX allow our players to be very sought after for United States Scholarship opportunities.  The Field LAX game is a “NO HITTING” game that focuses on “TEAM” play and requires all the skills of the Box game.  Girls Field LAX is growing rapidly in Western Canada, catching up with the East.  This year was the first year the U19 Canadian National Team came looking for Western players and selected 10 from Alberta and BC.  Two of those players came from last year’s Semiahmoo Midget box team.

Fantastic Inaugural Season

Semiahmoo had one girl’s team last year entered at the Midget age group.  In spite of having several underage girls and a number of first year players, the team managed to qualify for provincials and was the only team to defeat the eventual Gold Medal winners in the round robin.  With a core group of very skilled players and new players that learned very quickly, the team was feared by even most established teams from New West and Coquitlam.  With just one more goal in the game against the Gold Medal winners the team would have gone to the gold medal round.  Many of the players from this team now play together in field LAX.  Click on the thumbnail to enlarge the team photo.