There volition beryllium sanctioned precocious schoolhouse lacrosse for 9 Clark County School District precocious schools this outpouring with the assistance from the Las Vegas Desert Dogs of the National Lacrosse League.
In a associated connection Friday from CCSD and the Desert Dogs, the 2 entities announced a program to assistance 9 CCSD precocious schools with their boys and girls lacrosse programs this outpouring and let the schools to play for an NIAA-sanctioned authorities championship.
The 9 schools were not disclosed.
“The Clark County School District (CCSD) and the Las Vegas Desert Dogs enactment the enlargement of diversion opportunities for our students and families,” the connection said. “As such, we are excited to denote that we person collaborated connected a program to supply lacrosse to some boys and girls astatine 9 precocious schools during the upcoming 2026-2027 schoolhouse year.
“CCSD and the Desert Dogs person travel unneurotic to place coaches and trim costs for student-athletes who person expressed involvement successful participating successful lacrosse astatine 9 CCSD precocious schools that antecedently expressed involvement successful fielding teams for the 2026-2027 outpouring season.”
On Tuesday, CCSD said successful a connection that it was not implementing precocious schoolhouse lacrosse this spring with the absorption to bring the athletics successful for the 2027-28 schoolhouse year. The Desert Dogs released a connection connected their societal media channels earlier Tuesday expressing their “disappointment” that CCSD would not beryllium moving guardant with implementing lacrosse for its subordinate schools.
The NIAA successful August 2025 announced the afloat sanctioning of boys and girls precocious schoolhouse lacrosse arsenic a athletics statewide with the archetypal play coming successful outpouring of 2027. The NIAA said Tuesday that they were not alert of immoderate issues with immoderate districts implementing lacrosse.
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