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Good morning. Here’s the latest from around the lacrosse world:

1. The NCAA men’s and women’s lacrosse championship sites were announced through 2026.

Most notably, the men’s and women’s final fours will both be held at Gillette Stadium in 2025 and 2026. It will be the first time since 2017 that the two Division I championships will be held in the same venue.

On the men’s side, the NCAA announced a return to NFL venues after the championship will head to Rentschler Field in East Hartford, Conn. in 2021-22.

Here’s the full list:

2023: Philadelphia, Pa.

2024: Philadelphia, Pa.

2025: Foxborough, Mass.

2026: Foxborough, Mass.

As for the women’s championship, the final four will head to Cary, N.C. — often the site of NCAA soccer’s final four — in 2023 and 2024. Then, the championships will head back to Gillette Stadium for the first time since 2017.

The full list of sites:

2023: Cary, N.C.

2024: Cary, N.C.

2025: Foxborough, Mass.

2026: Foxborough, Mass.

Check out the full write-ups including future NCAA quarterfinal locations.

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2. Former Harvard LSM Noah Knopf shared his coming-out story with US Lacrosse Magazine, in partnership with OutSports.

Knopf wrote in a first-person piece about the November day when he shared with his teammates that he is Gay. He also touched on homophobia within the game of lacrosse and how he hopes to enact change in this sport.

Click here to check out his inspiring piece.

The lacrosse community voiced its support for Knopf throughout the day.

3. Cassandra Kitchen is proud of her Peruvian heritage and the steps that led her to lacrosse.

Kitchen, whose mother emigrated to the U.S. in 1989 from Peru, plays for Skywalkers Lacrosse Club in Maryland and dreams to one day represent either her home country or the country of her heritage.

Read more about her story.

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Kate Sites using her speed at Maryland women’s lacrosse practice.

Checking in on Carl Runk and Towson men's lacrosse circa 1981.

WHAT’S ON TAP

  • Nelson Rice checks in with the Pietramala twins after they committed to North Carolina.

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