No matter how anyone tries to slice the pie, lacrosse is still an eastern-based sport. Its origins locate into the lands of upstate New York and Ontario-based Canada, and its strongholds remain a stretch of the United States ranging from New England to the Mid-Atlantic with coastal New York, Long Island, New Jersey and Maryland dotting the landscape prior to Virginia and the Carolinas.
That hasn't stopped it from becoming one of the fastest-growing sports in North America, and even though it remains recognized for the geographical power located squarely in the ACC's footprint, the women's game has started to take root out west by offering new perspectives on an older, more exclusive environment.