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After the Iroquois Nationals played the United States in round-robin play, their fans were like it’s almost like a neighborhood competing against a country with the number of players the States have to choose from.

This post simply takes a look at the numbers of Canadian players in box and field lacrosse by Province last year, according to the Canadian Lacrosse Association (CLA) statistics of paid membership numbers.

British Columbia - Box: 12678, Field: 2392
Alberta - Box: 8628, Field: 458
Saskatchewan - Box: 1730, Field: 333
Manitoba - Box: 1291, Field 330
Ontario - Box: 9949, Field: 2991
Quebec - Box: 1283, Field: 460
Nova Scotia - Box: 1621, Field: 263
New Brunswick - Box: 1178, Field: 65
Nunavut - Box: 130, Field: 0
CAN-AM = Box: 150, Field: 0
Iroquois - Box: 129, Field: 50

These stats do not include Ontario house-league players, approximately 32,000 and is only paid membership numbers.

By contrast, in the United States there were 201,250 high-school field lacrosse players last year, and 241,581 youth players in 2007, according to the research of US Lacrosse.

This is not to take anything away from the US in their dominance at the International Lacrosse Federation (ILF) U-19 World Field Lacrosse Championships, just interesting statistics to consider.

Canada’s U-19 team in 2008 was comprised of 18 players from Ontario and four from British Columbia.

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