According to the KHSAA/Riherds scoreboard, lacrosse could potentially be added to boys and girls high school athletics in the Commonwealth.
At the moment, the only local school that already has a lacrosse program is Owensboro High School.
The KHSAA website does not have lacrosse listed as a spring sport currently and no confirmation was given as of press time.
Owensboro High School Athletic Director Todd Harper said that he has not heard if this is true and it is actually becoming a typical spring sport at this time.
“As far as I know, the KHSAA has not put out anything on this,” Harper said. “For the last few years, we could enter our lacrosse players on rosters for the KHSAA, but that did not make them an official sport. From what I can decipher through Twitter, now schools can enter a schedule and scores. To me, that still does not make them a sanctioned sport, but it could be in the near future.”
As far as Apollo High School and Owensboro Catholic go, Apollo AD Dan Crume and Owensboro Catholic AD Jason Morris said if this proves to be a sanctioned sport, they plan on gauging interest in it through the annual Title IX mandated survey.
“We will base that off our interest survey that we do for Title IX,” Crume said. “If we have enough interest then we will look at the proximity of available teams to play.”
“We take a student survey every year to see if there are sports that we don’t offer that the students would like us to offer,” Morris said. “To this point, lacrosse hasn’t been a sport that the students have seemed interested in adding.”
Trinity Athletic Director Josh Bowlds plans to do the same despite being a smaller school, knowing that the possibility of lacrosse being added is huge when it comes to the overall landscape of high school sports in Kentucky.
“I think it shows the evolution of interscholastic athletics over the last few years,” Bowlds said. Lacrosse is one of the fastest growing sports in the country so for the KHSAA to step in and offer that opportunity to Kentucky High School students is huge. Any time you can add another sport to your arsenal it’s a good thing. This is just another way interscholastic athletics can reach more student-athletes and grow sports altogether in our state.”
