UCLA Lacrosse History

In 1959, organized lacrosse was officially started in California when the California Lacrosse Association was formed, representing two high school teams, one college team, and one club team.

In the early 1970's the UCLA Men's Lacrosse Team was a member of the California Lacrosse Association.  The team competed against other local college teams (including the original rival UC Santa Barbara and California) as well as men's post-collegiate clubs that comprised the CLA. 

In 1978, UCLA , UC Santa Barbara, University of California, Stanford University, University of Arizona, Arizona State University and the Claremont Colleges became founding members of the Western Collegiate Lacrosse League (WCLL).  In the early 90s the WCLL split into Northern and Southern Divisions.  UCLA was a member of the Southern Division A along with Chapman, UCSD, SDSU, Cal Poly SLO and the Arizona Schools.

In the spring of 1997 the WCLL was among the original 6 independent collegiate leagues which came together to form the first ever USILA Collegiate Club National Championships.  The six leagues agreed to certain minimum eligibility requirements and agreed to send their conference champions to the new national championship in St. Louis. The leagues all kept up their own organizations, identites, records, and structures.

In 1998 the USLIA (United States Lacrosse Intercollegiate Associates), now the USL-MDIA (United States Lacrosse- Men's Division Intercollegiate Associates), was formed and ran the national championship under US Lacrosse.

Prior to the 2005 season the WCLL "A" was realigned into four divisions.  The UCLA Bruins are currently a member of the WCLL Los Angeles Division.
 

Championships

1982 - California Lacrosse Association (WCLL) Champions
1982 - California Lacrosse Association Southern Champions  

Post-Season

WCLL Champions (1982), WCLL Southern Division Champs (1982),
WCLL Quarterfinals (1986, 87, 88, 89, 90, 97, 98, 99, 00, 01, 02, 06)

3 USL-MDIA All-Americans

8 WCLL All-Conference Selections


UCLA Men's Lacrosse Record Book I
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Team Records
-Season-by-Season Records
-Miscellaneous Individual Records
-Statistics
-All-American and All-Conference Players

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