The EMGLCA promotes girls’ lacrosse by providing information and education to Eastern Massachusetts Girls Lacrosse High School coaches. The EMGLCA gathers and distributes important updates from the NFHS, the MIAA, the MIAA Girls Lacrosse Committee and USA Lacrosse. The EMGLCA encourages all varsity head coaches, new and returning, to complete the EMGLCA Varsity Girls Lacrosse Coach Contact Information form annually in order to ensure that they stay informed with all of the latest rule updates, MIAA Girls Lacrosse Committee discussion items and tournament reminders, regional team tryout opportunities and post season award nomination processes and submission dates.
EMGLCA Varsity Girls Lacrosse Coach Contact Information Form
2025 SEASON INFORMATION
The spring season will start on Monday, March 17th.
RULES UPDATES
2025 NFHS Rules Changes: nfhs.org/sports-resource-content/girls-lacrosse-rules-changes-2025/
2025 NFHS Points of Empasis:
- Use of the Green Card / Delay of Game
- Managing Safe Play in the 8-Meter Arc
- Offensive Fouls Inside the Critical Scoring Area
To order a 2025 NFHS Rule book: National Federation of State High School Associations – Lacrosse, Girls
MIAA GIRLS LACROSSE COMMITTEE UPDATES – 5/7/2025
MIAA 2025 State Tournament Update:
- Power seeding has begun! Coaches/Athletic Directors need to be diligent about making sure that scores are entered correctly and in a timely manner!
- Here is the proposed state tournament timeline:
- May 26 – Cutoff
- May 27 – Freeze/review
- May 28 – Bracket/seedings released
- May 29 – June 2 – Preliminary games and Round of 32
- June 3 – 5: Round of 16
- June 6 – 8: Round of 8
- June 9 – 10: State semis
- June 12-13: State finals at Babson College
- MIAA is going to try to release the host sites for state semis and state finals when the brackets are released so that schools can be prepared
Important Reminders from the Officials Report:
- Coaches need to remind players of the following:
- Horizontal stick-to-body contact is NOT allowed.
- Displacement of players or extension of arms by a defensive player into an attacker is not allowed.
- Failure for the offending player to move 4 meters behind the ball carrier is a delay of game; all players in and around the ball/play should be moving four meters away from the player who is awarded possession
- As a reminder, a player who receives two yellow cards in a contest cannot return to the field. This is NOT a disqualification for any future contests, nor does the player have to leave the premises.
- If a player is issued a straight red card, that player is immediately removed from the game and an MIAA disqualification form must be completed. That player is ineligible and not allowed to participate in the subsequent game.
- JV games should be played in quarters (not halves.) Please assume that the JV game will be the same length as the varsity game, EXCEPT when coaches from both teams agree to modify the time (i.e. 4 x 12:00 running time)