Hong Kong Lacrosse Association

Hong Kong Lacrosse Association
Founded 1993
Website http://www.hklax.org

The Hong Kong Lacrosse Association is the governing body of lacrosse in Hong Kong. Founded in 1993, HKLA is a member Of the Federation of International Lacrosse (FIL),[1] Asia Pacific Lacrosse Union (APLU),[2] as well as Sports Federation & Olympic Committee Hong Kong, China (SF&OC).[3]

The national teams organized by the association regularly participates in international and regional tournaments.

Events

World Lacrosse Championship : The Hong Kong Men’s Representative Team (HKMRT) has participated in the world ranking tournament since 2002, The WC is a once every 4 years event organized by FIL. In 2014, HKMRT finished with a ranking of 21 out of 38 teams. Currently, FIL has 59 members and HKMRT is looking for a better ranking in 2018.

Women's Lacrosse World Cup : The Hong Kong Women’s Representative Team (HKWRT) first participated in the world ranking tournament since 2013, The WC is a once every 4 years event organized by FIL. In 2013, HKWRT finished with a ranking of 17 out of 18 teams.

The Asia Pacific Lacrosse Championship (ASPAC): The only Asia bi-annual ranking tournament organized by APLU. Only National teams are invited and Hong Kong first participated in 2005.

U19 Championship: A once every four years’ event. Hong Kong participated in the U19 Championship for the first time in 2016 for boys and finished 11th out of 14 teams.

Greater China Cup (GCC) started in 2016 in order to promote Lacrosse among Hong Kong, Taiwan and midland China. Hence; the name Greater China Cup. The location of the tournament rotates among the three and it will be Taiwan’s turn in 2018 while Hong Kong hosted the event in 2017. Each location sends a Men’s and a Women’s team to the tournament, it is encouraged to send the up and coming National/Representative team, so that they get to play with other cities to gain experience and be matured to the next National/Representative team.

Hong Kong Lacrosse Open: The biggest lacrosse tournament in Asia. In 2017 , total 15 teams from all around the world like Australia, Korea, China , Japan , Thailand , Singapore and Taiwan have participated.

References

  1. ↑ ThemeFuse. "FIL | Federation of International Lacrosse". filacrosse.com. Retrieved 2017-05-17.
  2. ↑ "Home". Asia Pacific Lacrosse. 2014-12-02. Retrieved 2017-05-17.
  3. ↑ "Olympic Main Site". www.hkolympic.org. Retrieved 2017-05-17.
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