LaCrosse fall clinic starts September 20, 2026 for girls and boys grades K-8

Announcing 2026 fall ball clinics for boys and girls grades K-8.

Six Sundays from September 20 to October 25, 2026. Free loaner equipment and scholarship available. 

All are welcome including new players and experienced players. You do not need to be a Shoreline resident to attend either. 

Register here

The cost for all 6 sessions is $60 for new players and $90 for experienced players.

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Shoreline LFP Lacrosse program is alive and well

Boys lacrosse. Photo by Matt Mulder

By Matt Sokołowski

The Shoreline LFP Lacrosse program, a.k.a Sholax, has ebbed and flowed throughout the community since it was founded in 2012 as a boys youth and high school program. 

However, after a solid run that included a 2016 home playoff win, it folded in 2017. It was resurrected in 2019, and was the only recreational sport in Shoreline and Lake Forest Park that continued in-person instruction throughout the pandemic - through strict adherence to recommended guidelines and protocols.

Sholax is different. It is an independent, non-profit, K-12 girls and boys club program that is not affiliated with the Shoreline school district. While they compete at the Varsity and JV level for boys, and Varsity for girls, they represent Shoreline as a unified front with players from both Shorecrest and Shorewood High Schools.

BOYS VARSITY AND JUNIOR VARSITY

The boys Varsity team enters their thirteenth season in 2026, and are playoff eligible for the first time since 2021. They are led by:

Kai Sokolowski ’26 - Shorecrest
3x Captain
Canisius University Commit - NCAA Division I
2023 and 2025 All-Conference

Ben Markwardt ’26 - Shorewood
2x Captain
2025 All-Conference

Miles Weybright ’26 - Shorecrest
1x Captain

Jacob Ingalsbe ’26 - Shorewood
1x Captain

Jason Fanning ’27 - Shorecrest
2025 All-Conference

They compete in the WESCo conference with Shorecrest High School and Shoreline Stadium as their home fields. They have their most competitive schedule to date, and will be facing six of the nine NCAA Division I commits from Washington State from the 2026 graduating class. The JV team enters its fourth season since its formation in 2023.

BOYS VARSITY HOME GAMES

• Friday March 20th vs Lake Stevens, Shorecrest High School 8pm
• Thursday March 26th vs Lakeside, Shorecrest High School 8pm
• Friday March 29th vs Archbishop Murphy, Shorecrest High School 8pm
• Saturday April 4th vs Nathan Hale (Youth Night), Shoreline Stadium 7pm
• Thursday April 9th vs Roosevelt, Shorecrest High School 8pm
• Monday April 13th vs Bothell, Shoreline Stadium 8pm
• Wednesday April 15th vs Seattle Prep, Shorecrest High School 8pm
• Friday April 17th vs Stanwood, Shorecrest High School 8pm
• Friday May 1st vs Kamiak (Senior Night), Shorecrest High School 8pm
• Friday March 8th - Playoffs Begin

Girls lacrosse. Photo by Ken Suzuki

GIRLS VARSITY

The girls Varsity team enters their third season since its formation in 2024. They are led by:

Iris Cook ’26 - Shorecrest
3x Captain

Lu Harms ’27 - Shorecrest
2024 and 2025 All-Conference

Vivian Rzegocki ’26 - Shorecrest
2x Captain

Livija Burpee ’27 - Shorewood
2x Captain

Avery Suzuki ’27 - Shorewood
2x Captain

Abby Shambaugh ’27 - Shorecrest
2x Captain

Jenabel Towillis ’27 - Shorecrest

Harper Birgfeld ’28 - Shorecrest
2025 All-Conference

They compete in the Metro Conference with Shorecrest High School as their home field, and are looking to build off of a successful 2025 campaign that resulted in their first ever Rainier Cup playoff appearance.

GIRLS VARSITY HOME GAMES

• Tuesday March 10th vs NSI Snoqualmie, Shorecrest High School 8pm
• Saturday March 28th vs Anacortes, Shorecrest High School 1pm
• Tuesday March 31st vs Bainbridge (Youth Night), Shorecrest High School 8pm
• Thursday April 2nd vs West Seattle, Shorecrest High School 8pm
• Tuesday April 7th vs Lincoln, Shorecrest High School 8pm
• Thursday April 30th vs Garfield, Shorecrest High School 8pm (Senior Night)
• Saturday May 9th - Rainier Cup

THE HISTORY OF LACROSSE

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Lacrosse is the oldest sport in North America with its origins with the indigenous people of North America as early as the 12th century. It is known as the “Creator’s Game,” “The Medicine Game,” “The Little Brother of War,” and “The Fastest Game on Two Feet.”

It is the national sport of Canada, and is set for its return to the Olympics in 2028 in Los Angeles after a 120 year hiatus. 

HS Boys Links

• Instagram
• Sholax

HS Girls Social

• Instagram

Shoreline LFP Lacrosse is a no-cut sport and welcomes inexperienced players for both girls and boys teams. 

Sign up today!

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Registration open for Shoreline Lacrosse for grades K-12

Join Shoreline Lacrosse this 2026 spring season. We welcome new and returning K-12 players for a season of fun, responsibility, dedication, health & fitness, and leadership training success.

Registration is open now for Shoreline Lacrosse. Uniforms must be ordered by January 5, 2026. Loaner gear and financial assistance available.

All information here

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Shorecrest athletes excel in Water Polo and LaCrosse

Lacrosse captain Ami Miller #99

By Shorecrest Athletic Director Alan Bruns:

In addition to our Shorecrest athletic teams, we also have athletes excelling in other areas, such as on the Shorecrest club water polo team, and on the Shoreline lacrosse team. 

Hats off to these Shorecrest athletes!

WATER POLO: This season has been great so far! They won their game against Roosevelt 8-1 on Friday which solidified their spot at the Division 2 Championship. 

Audrey McLaughlin, Hazel Andersen, Eliana Harrick, Clara Pettiross and Jackie Deiparine are the top scorers. 

Senior night is May 8, 2023 at Innis Arden Swim club at 4:45pm against Northshore.

LACROSSE: Shorecrest has a number of boys playing for the local Shoreline Lacrosse program. After nine games, the 2023 Shoreline lacrosse season so far has been led almost entirely by Shorecrest students.

• Ami Miller ’23 (captain) - 57 points, 45 goals, 12 assists, 26 ground balls
• Kai Sokolowski ‘26 - 45 points, 26 goals, 19 assists, 47 ground balls
• Pearse Kelly ’24 (captain) - 32 points, 28 goals, 4 assists, 31 ground balls
• Gus Hamilton ’24 - 96 Ground Balls, 16 points, 10 Goals, 6 Assists

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Sports Desk: Shorewood rising senior earns Academic All-American for lacrosse

Henry Sheffield, USA Lacrosse Academic All-American.
Photo copyright Brian Oevermann

Henry Sheffield, Shorewood High School rising senior, recently earned the USA Lacrosse Academic All-American honoree for 2021. 

He’s one of 16 boys to receive the award in Washington State.

Honorees are “players who exhibit exemplary lacrosse skills, good sportsmanship on the field, and represent high standards of academic achievement in the classroom,” according to USA Lacrosse.

Sheffield was nominated by and plays for Shoreline Lacrosse, a team comprised of players from Shorewood and Shorecrest high schools. 

He served as a captain for the team in 2021.

“His hard working dedication is apparent throughout our organization and beyond,” says Shoreline Lacrosse Director and head coach, Walter Valenzuela.

“As a team captain and excellent lacrosse player, to a youth program coach he puts in an amazing effort. He even helped develop a field set-up system for youth games that lowered that burden for all of the volunteers.”

Sheffield’s interest in the game started at the age of three.

“I want to play that sport,” he told his dad after reading a Berenstain Bears book in which the characters were playing lacrosse.

Since third grade, he’s been playing on local lacrosse teams including Shoreline Lacrosse, Edmonds Eagles, and Time Bandits High School Elite.

--Sports Desk

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Shoreline Youth and High School Lacrosse hosting university teams in exhibition matches at Shorecrest Nov 2

Shoreline Youth and High School Lacrosse program is hosting three university lacrosse teams, University of Washington, University of Montana, and Central Washington University at Shorecrest High School for three exhibition games on Saturday, November 2, 2019 from 11am - 5pm at Shorecrest 15343 25th Ave NE, Shoreline 98155.

We will have a shooting clinic for youth/HS players and a "fastest shot" competition for some cool prizes! Food trucks and the Lacrosse Wolf trailer will be onsite.

We’re excited for the community to have the chance to check out lacrosse being played at such a high level right here at Shorecrest!

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Shoreline High Schools’ Lacrosse crew rolls into state playoffs with comeback win on Friday

Sammy Seliga races up the field
leading a Shorecrest fastbreak

The Shorecrest lacrosse team needed a second half comeback to top the Division 1 Roosevelt Rough Riders in a non-league matchup Friday night for their eighth win in their final nine regular season contests, setting the stage for a first round trip to the Washington State 3A Lacrosse Playoffs.

Again Shorecrest’s seniors led the way for the Scots. WesCo leading scorer Reed Tangeman started off the scoring in the first quarter with his 31st goal of the season, but it was fellow senior tri-captain Calvin Acker that was the first half story for the Scots.

Acker, who started his lacrosse playing days as a first grader in the North Seattle Lacrosse program, the same as many of his Roosevelt opponents on the field, gave an unfriendly welcome to his former teammates, scoring four first quarter goals to stake the Scots to a 5-1 lead. 

However, the early deficit didn’t faze the visitors, who came back to tie the score at 6-6 with four straight goals to close out the half, followed by two quick scores to take an 8-6 lead on the Scots early in the 3rd Quarter.

Calvin Acker launches a shot over Roosevelt High defenders

At that point, the third of Shorecrest’s senior captains, Sammy Seliga, along with junior Travis Zapalac, went on a four goal run to turn the game around. 

Seliga scored a key goal to stop the six goal streak by Roosevelt and Zapalac followed with three straight goals, two of which came off assists by Seliga, to take control of the game.

Following a 4th quarter goal by Roosevelt to cut the lead to one, Seliga registered his 5th assist of the night on a fast break pass to freshman attackman Otto Begus, who found the net for his second goal of the contest to close out the scoring and seal the 11-9 non-league victory.

The Scots, made up of high school players from both Shorecrest and Shorewood High Schools, take their 10-2 record to Snohomish High School on Wednesday night to challenge the Panthers in their first trip to the State Tournament since 2016. Gametime is 7pm.

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Shorecrest / Shorewood Lacrosse caps undefeated League season with 18-1 Senior Night victory

Calvin Acker looks to shoot while fellow captain Reed Tangeman looks on
Photo by Brian Oevermann

One year ago, Reed Tangeman, Calvin Acker, and Sammy Seliga couldn’t imagine that they would have a Senior Night for lacrosse. But on Tuesday night, the Shorecrest /Shorewood lacrosse tri-captains got to celebrate that Senior Night by leading the Scots to an 18-1 victory over Arlington, capping off an undefeated league season and launching the squad into next week’s playoffs.

Sammy Seliga, Calvin Acker, and Reed Tangeman

WesCo leading scorer and Illinois Institute of Technology commit Tangeman scored 4 goals, Acker added 2 goals and picked a team high 8 groundballs, and WesCo assist leader Seliga stepped in as an emergency goalie, allowing only one goal in his first attempt at the position in over 8 seasons, to go along with 3 assists.

Junior Travis Zapalac led the Scots with 6 goals, and Estaban Guerrero, one of 11 freshmen on the squad, scored his first goal of the season to help support the senior captains.

A rarity in Shoreline High School sports, the lacrosse team is a combined team of both Shorecrest and Shorewood athletes; officially they are Shorecrest. 

First year Head Coach Walter Valenzuela has resurrected a program that was winless two seasons ago and didn’t have enough players to field a high school team in 2018.

The seniors will now get to return to the playoffs they competed in as freshmen, which seemed most unlikely when practices started in February.

The Scots, 8-0 in division play, 9-2 overall, conclude their regular season schedule 8pm Friday night with a non-league matchup against Roosevelt High School at Shorecrest High School.

The team can be followed on Twitter at @lfpsholax and on Facebook at LFP-Shoreline Lacrosse. For those interested in the sport, the youth program begins at 3rd grade and information can be found HERE

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Shorecrest Lacrosse team beats Archbishop Murphy 10-2

Thursday, April 11, 2019 at 7pm, the Shorecrest Lacrosse team played Archbishop Murphy High School. The game was played at host Archbishop Murphy playing fields in Everett.

Shorecrest won 10-2.

The Shorecrest team is 6-0 in league play this season.

The governing body for lacrosse is the Washington High School Boys Lacrosse Association ( WHSBLA). Teams are associated with a high school. Some are fully part of the school, others are club sports.

They are midpoint in their season.

Standings and scores as recorded in the official scorebooks are online in Sportability

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Youth lacrosse teams forming in area - meeting Thursday

A new group of parents and volunteers are restarting the Lake Forest Park - Shoreline lacrosse club for youth and high school players in the area.

Registration is open, the fields are reserved and we’re rounding up more coaches. 

Come to the high school team meeting this Thursday, December 14th at 7pm at the Shoreline Fire Station #61 main meeting room, 17525 Aurora Ave N, Shoreline, WA 98133

Organizers have been busy!

We have coordinated with the WSHBLA to set up our season - Game schedule is set and posted on the website. Games start with a home game Thursday, March 15th at 8pm, Snohomish HS visiting.

Shorecrest HS fields are scheduled for all home games and all Tuesday / Thursday practices throughout the season. We have secured Shoreline Parks Department lighted fields for additional practices, Mon/Wed/Fri during the season.

Most importantly we have a great, engaged Coach - Matt Buffaloe, a former UW Lacrosse player with extensive playing and coaching experience.

Additionally, we have recruited several other coaches with college LAX playing experience as (unpaid) coaching volunteers.

For the kids, no experience is necessary and uniforms are provided. Some loaner equipment available.

We are looking forward to an active, engaged organization with teams at all age levels. Come check us out!

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Lacrosse season starts in February

Steve Weaver, Program Director/Head Coach of the Lake Forest Park-Shoreline lacrosse program, wants to let our communities know about lacrosse opportunities this Spring.

"We serve all boys and girls grades 2nd-12th. We are in our 5th year as a club and I am happy to say our club has grown exponentially. I’d like to let our communities know about lacrosse opportunities this winter and Spring."

Contact Steve Weaver if interested, by email or phone 206-419-4590.

Beginning in February the Spring season will start for:

• Boys 2/3/4th grade
• Boys 5/6 grade
• Boys 7/8 grade
• Boys HS Varsity (all students residing in Shoreline/Lake Forest Park are eligible to play regardless of school affiliation)
• Girls 2/3/4th grade
• Girls 5/6th grade

Go to the club website for more information or call or email Steve, 206-419-4590.

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Lake Forest Park - Shoreline lacrosse program

Steve Weaver, Program Director/Head Coach of the Lake Forest Park-Shoreline lacrosse program, wants to let our communities know about lacrosse opportunities this winter and Spring.

"We serve all boys and girls grades 2nd-12th. We are in our 5th year as a club and I am happy to say our club has grown exponentially. I’d like to let our communities know about lacrosse opportunities this winter and Spring."

Beginning November the club will field an indoor team at the 5/6th and 7/8th grade level at Magnuson Park Arena Sports.  Contact Steve Weaver if interested, by email or phone 206-419-4590.

Beginning in February the Spring season will start for:

• Boys 2/3/4th grade
• Boys 5/6 grade
• Boys 7/8 grade
• Boys HS Varsity (all students residing in Shoreline/Lake Forest Park are eligible to play regardless of school affiliation)
• Girls 2/3/4th grade
• Girls 5/6th grade

Registration for all grades begins October 1, 2011. Registration fills up fast, and you are encouraged to sign up early to get a spot.

Go to the club website  for more information or call or email Steve, 206-419-4590. 

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High school Lacrosse team forming

 

World Indoor Lacrosse Championships in Halifax fall '06
Photo by Sandy Chase

If you are interested in Lacrosse, the LFP/Shoreline Lacrosse organization is forming a high school boys' team.

This team is open to all high school boys in the Shoreline School District.

Registration is online at this website. There will be two info meetings in early January to discuss practice times, locations, with a question and answer session for the parents at the end.

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