MYL Select Lacrosse Program offers MYL member towns an additional playing opportunity for their more experienced and committed 7th & 8th grade and 5th & 6th grade players. Select can enhance their love for the game and improve their lacrosse skills through competitive games with like-minded, talented players from surrounding towns.

The MYL Select Lacrosse Program is a natural extension and is fully integrated with the traditional MYL Town Program and is guided by the same mission and goals of the MYL as a whole.  The MYL Select Lacrosse Program practice & game schedule does not conflict with the MYL Town Program weekly practice & Sunday game schedule and is open to ALL interested towns.  Players choosing to play on an MYL Select Lacrosse team MUST also play on their town’s traditional MYL Town team as well.

Keys Points:

We established the MYL Select Lacrosse Program for the following reasons:

• Improve the overall program and positive experience for all involved in the MYL

• Enable more experienced middle school youth players to play together on a unified town team

• Simplify parent/player travel & carpool logistics w/ local practices/games

• Improve the competitive level of lacrosse, competition & capabilities in all players, teams & towns

• Stay in sync with, and complementary to, the mission & goals of the traditional MYL Town program

• A natural extension and logical progression of a growing MYL

and NOT for the following reason….

• We are NOT doing this for the sometimes mentioned wrong reasons; to be exclusionary, Select to a fault, Elite Team fever, A-B-C rankings, or the better-than-you mentality.

MYL Select Lacrosse games will be held on Friday nights or Saturday.  The MYL Select Lacrosse practice & game schedule will not conflict with the MYL Classic Town practice or Sunday game schedule. The MYL Select Lacrosse program will have Division standings, playoffs, championships, and an All-Star game at end of the season.  

The MYL Select Lacrosse program is an extension of the MYL and its mission to teach, grow and honor the game of lacrosse throughout the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.

The league stresses sportsmanship and fair play, where every game is played with our ‘Spirit of the Game’ philosophy.  Competitive play is encouraged, but never at the expense of respect between players, adherence to the rules, and the basic joy of lacrosse.

 The MYL Select Lacrosse Season overview:

• 7 regular season games

• 1 tournament game (“win and stay in” tournament)

• 1 All-Star game per age group

• Each game will have two Referee Officials (EMLOA or EMWLUA)