The Danish Women's National Team has played it's final game in the 2009 World Cup in Prague. The Danish women beat South Korea 17-3, and secured the 15th place it the tournament.
The team has played 7 games in just 9 days, including the tournament opening game against Austria, which Denmark lost 16-7. Another group game followed against the Haudenosaunee. Losing this game 2-16 meant that the Danes were to face the Netherlands and South Korea in a mini league.
The first game of the mini league was another loss, 4-18 against the Netherlands, but the second game gave Denmark the first win of the tournament, when South Korea was beat 15-2.
This meant that the Danes were up against Germany. Beating the Germans would allow Denmark to play for positions 9 through 12, while loosing would mean playing for positions 13 through 16. Unfortunately the Germans proved too strong and took away a 24-1 victory.
This left the Danish women with a chance for revenge against Austria. With a score of 7-7 at half time the Austrians came out strong and took the lead. But the Danes never gave up and fought for a come back. They almost caught up, but at 10-9 the Danish team ran out of time.
The seventh and final game of the tournament was a rematch against South Korea. Like in the first match Denmark took home a secure win, this time 17-3.
The World Cup final between defending champions Australia and USA will be played tomorrow, Saturday 27/6 at 15:00.
The 2010 World Championships are approaching fast. For Denmark to perform even better than in the 2006 tournament, national coaches Kevin Parker and Curt Foxx will come to Copenhagen. Traveling with them is two assisting coaches, who will help out in the week leading up to the Copenhagen Cup (24-26 July).
It is coach Parkers intention to not only focus on the team, but also support the sport locally, which is why the practices will be open for anyone who wants to develop their game. Kevin and Curt coach via the philosophy that practice should be fun and educational, so the DLF encourage everyone to participate.
This weekend, the 30th and 31st of May, is the second game weekend of the 2009 DLL. The game weekend is hosted by Odense Lacrosse, which means that the first offcial lacrosse game on the island of Funen will be played this Saturday between Odense Lacrosse and Copenhagen Lacrosse. Copenhagen must be considered favourites, but Odense, who is playing their first DLL season this year, played remarkably well in the first game weekend, upsetting Aarhus Lacrosse, and losing only 4-1 to defending champions KFB Lacrosse.
The games will be played at the fields of Søndre Skole, Svendborgvej 39, 5540 Ullerslev.
13 Danes and 1 Swede attended the first Referee Clinic ever held in Denmark. The clinic was run by the extremely experienced and knowledgeable referees, Matthias Lockemann and Phil Pearsson.
At the end of the clinic 10 new referees had passed the test. DLF congratulates them, and looks forward to seeing them on the lacrosse fields.
DLF has just published a new version of the DLL Men's Registration Sheet. This registration sheet must be used to register players for all DLL games from now on.
DLF is hosting an ELF sponsored Referee Clinic in Copenhagen on the 16th and 17th of May, 2009.
The clinic is open for everyone interested in refereeing the men's game, and DLF encourages everyone to participate.
The clinic is run by Matthias Lockeman, who is the Men's Referee Coordinator of the ELF and acted as Head Referee during the European Championships 2008 in Lathi, Finland. Most likely he will be joined by Don Blacklock, FIL Chair of Officiating Men's Lacrosse.
We're looking forward to having Matthias and Don with us.
To sign up for the Referee Clinic, or if you have any questions, please send an email to
UPDATE 2:
DEADLINE MAY 11! Your sign up to
should be followed by a payment of 35 Euro or 260 Danish kroner or 380 Swedish Kronor to the DLF account. The account number can be found under Contact.
Tag your payment: REF CLINIC –YOUR FULL NAME-. Deadline is May 11 or when all seats are booked.
UPDATE 1:
For now you should expect a fee per trainee at about 35 Euros. This might change (get smaller), though it probably won't.
Place: Kløvermarkens Idrætsanlæg Kløvermarksvej 56 2300 København S
The Federation of International Lacrosse is looking to hire a new Administrative Assistant. If you might be interested, take a look at this job announcement.
The game schedule for the Men's DLL 2009 has been released. Like last year, the league will be played as a series of "game weekends" where all participating teams will meet up and play. This is done in an effort to strengthen the lacrosse community and have more spectators for the games.
This summer a major European lacrosse event will be born in Copenhagen.
Copenhagen Cup aims to sport clubs from all over Europe in an amazing 2 day lacrosse extravaganza taking place the 24th through the 26th of July in KFB Lacrosse's home fields. It's a men's and women's tournament. Swedish, Finish and German teams have already been invited. The tournament will feature a beer tent (!) and lacrosse merchandise and gear to purchase. The arrangers hope to be able to list all four Danish clubs.
