This evening I will be travelling around 900 km north to the city of Luleå to be the RIC for the NLLL 2013. It is great to be back into refereeing again. If you get a chance to do some lacrosse in December in Sweden you really have to take the opportunity.
My mind started going for a while. How far north is actually lacrosse being played? Is StiL Lacrosse (the team in Luleå) perhaps the northernmost Lacrosse club in the world? With less than 150 km to the arctic circle it shouldn't bee too strange. First of all there are not too many countries that have land above the arctic circle (eight if you count all land territories). A quick check of the homepages of of our neighboring countries´ home pages reveals that neither Norway or Finland has any team more northern than Luleå (although Finland has one pretty close).
The most likely though would be to look in Canada or USA, but there it was harder to find a complete team list. Although after a quick search I found the following and the story was more interesting than just finding a lacrosse club far north. I think it deserves to be told. Enjoy!
So Luleå can not claim to be the northernmost lacrosse team. Kugluktuk lies about as far north as the Swedish city of Kiruna, but maybe NLLL is the northernmost lacrosse torunament.
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