SENIOR REGIONAL TEAMS

National Senior Regional Tournament 2025

Applications for players interested in representing South West at this prestigious tournament are now OPEN!

You can link to the form here - applications close on Sunday, 15 December so don't delay!

The Senior Regional Tournament this season will be hosted by North over the weekend of 15-16 March 2025 - venue details still to come.

We are running full trials in January and a proposed training day for selected players in March, before the Senior Regional Tournament. We understand that there may be a number of reasons why players might not be able to make it to our trials so we will consider 'paper applications'. However, we stress that we strongly encourage anyone who would like to be considered to come. We have kept the trials commitment as short (and cheap) as we possibly can. All players who want to be considered MUST pay the trials fee, whether they are able to attend in person or not.

If you have any questions regarding the Senior Regional programme, you can reach us on sr.southwestlacrosseuk@gmail.com.

Key dates:

Sunday, 19 January - Senior Regional trials: 09.30 - 13.00 - Oxford Academy, Sandy Lane West, Littlemore, Oxford OX4 6JZ

Sunday, 2 March - training for selected players tbc

15 - 16 March - National Senior Regional tournament (North)

Senior Regional Tournament 2024

Although we were beset with numerous difficulties, we were delighted to send Senior A and B teams to the annual Senior Regional tournament, this year hosted by the South East. Huge congratulations to all those who played - and massive thanks to Charlotte Williams (Wales, SW Senior Regional A, Downe House and general Good Egg) for all her hard work pulling the teams together. We mustn't forget the coaches (Qasim and Heidi) and umpires from the SW who travelled up to help officiate the matches! And the teams were:

As: Harriet Brooks, Holly Bureau, Anna Featherstone, Isla Finlay, Emma Hawkins, Katie Lehovsky, Georgina Lewis, Lauren Lewis, Kitty Marvin, Molly Marvin, Maeve McKenny, Isabelle Michelson, Mia Manson, Phoebe Smith, Laura Warren, Eliza Watson and Charlotte Williams.

Bs: Amy Adams, Erlina Ainsworth, Rebecca Anderson, Amy Bolton, Sian Evans-Evans, Natalie Hazzard, Alice Houlden, Chelsea Nasmyth-Miller, Alice-May Partridge, Vainavi Patel, Ziski Putz, Charlotte Ryan, Rosie Shepherd, Emily Watkins and Jenny Wood.

Senior Regional Tournament 2023

SWL are delighted to be hosting this season's tournament which will take place over the weekend of Saturday and Sunday, 1st and 2nd April at St Swithun's School, Winchester SO21 1HA. Teams from North, South East and South West will play in A and B team competitions and are joined by guest teams from the England U20s squad which is preparing for Euro 2023 later this summer! The order of play can be found in the News section of the website.

Eligibility

England Lacrosse Bye Laws 6.5 - 6.8 set out the eligibility rules for players to participate in Senior Regional representative lacrosse, as follows:

6.5 Birth within the Regional boundary, or
6.6 Bona fide residence for a period of at least six months or in the case of a university, college or school three months for the season in question, or
6.7 Three seasons as a member of the Regional Team, or
6.8 Registered to a club which is registered to that region, or competing in the league system of that region, or has previously
had bona fide residency in that region for a minimum of 3 years.

NB:

(a) No player shall represent more than one County and or Region in the same season

(b) No girl may play for a Senior Region if she is under 18 years at the beginning of the relevant season (generally commencing in September) or still at school at the time of the relevant event, unless selected for their Senior Elite National Squad (England A, Scotland A, Wales A) whereby the individual can choose to play at Senior and/or Junior level for their region

(d) Any exceptions must be agreed between the regions and referenced for the NLC