The first modern women’s lacrosse game was played in 1890 at the
St Leonards School in Scotland, where women's lacrosse had been introduced by
Louisa Lumsden. Lumsden brought the game to Scotland after watching a men's lacrosse game between the Canghuwaya Indians and the
Montreal Lacrosse Club. Lumsden, in a letter written home from the
White Mountains in
New Hampshire dated 6 September 1884, recounted her visit to watch that match. She wrote:
It is a wonderful game, beautiful and graceful. (I was so charmed with it that I introduced it at St Leonards.)" [sic] One of Lumsden's students,
Rosabelle Sinclair, established the first women's lacrosse team in the United States was at the
Bryn Mawr School in
Baltimore, Maryland. Scotland was a founder member of the
International Federation of Women's Lacrosse Associations in 1972, which merged with the
International Lacrosse Federation (the former governing body for men's lacrosse) to form the
Federation of International Lacrosse (FIL) in August 2008. Prior to the
Lockerbie air disaster in December 1988, the men's game had not been represented in Scotland since the turn of the 20th century. The tragedy of
Pan Am Flight 103 saw many
Syracuse University students perish and on a memorial visit one year later the University's lacrosse team were surprised that there was no Scotland Men's National Team for them to compete against. The country was challenged to pull together an inaugural and bona fide team; this was achieved some eight months later and following the 1990 World Championships the men's team played their first representative match. Scotland has now played memorial games against Syracuse during visits to Lockerbie to pay their respects to those lost in the air disaster, and hope this fixture will continue into the future. In 1993,
Edinburgh hosted the
Women's Lacrosse World Cup. ==References==