My sales pitch

I went out stumping for this last year but nothing came of it so I am at it again.

The fastest growing team sport in the country is not growing in the great state of Kansas: Lacrosse.

"The fastest sport on two feet" has grown exponentially over the last two decades from its East Coast hotbeds like Maryland, Virginia and New York to places like Colorado, Missouri, Texas and California. In fact, it is the official state sport of Maryland. (And now you know!)

For those unfamiliar, lacrosse is a full contact spring sport played on a field about the size of a football field where teams of ten players try to score as many goals to win. Pretty standard stuff but players use sticks to pass, throw, defend and shoot. Some of the best professional players can shoot over 100 mph! Its unbelievable.

Kansas City has a few high school teams on both sides of the river but nothing much outside of that area, except for the Wichita Renegades, the high school team for the Wichita area. This is fantastic!

Getting sticks in the kids hands is the best thing for the sport, especially in a place like Wichita where there are so many talented athletes. Imagine Blake Bell or Blake Jablonski with a lacrosse stick in their hands?! It would be awesome!

I can see Wichita, and the rest of the state for that matter, truly embracing lacrosse as a sport of their own. I know in some places it won't fully take root but seeing the Renegades program gives me hope that soon each school, or at least a handful of schools, will have their very own progams.

SO go out, check out the Internet for lacrosse videos and you will fall in love and we can get the sport to sprout up all over Kansas.