Victoria Shamrocks Lacrosse

The Victoria Shamrocks play home games at the Q Centre located at the Westshore Parks and Recreation complex.

The 25-player roster consists of 2 goalies and 23 runners and with a name like Shamrocks, they predictably wear a green and white uniform. 

When the team was formed in 1950, they were known as the Shamrocks but with a Pay Less Gas sponsorship between 1982 and 1994, they changed their name and went by the Victoria Pay Less.

Thank goodness that ended, because they went back to their original name in 1995 and hopefully won’t get any ideas of changing names again!

Basics of Box Lacrosse

• The field of play is called a box and is frequently an ice hockey arena that has had ice removed for the summer. The Shamrocks play at the arena where the Victoria Grizzlies hockey team plays in the winter. Some teams may play at an outdoor “cage”. Field lacrosse is a different game played on grass. 

• The game is played with a stick with a small net on one end and a rubber ball (the ball is very hard – at least two went through the window when my brother practiced against the side of our house growing up)