I am watching a women’s lacrosse game and I notice the scorers drop their stick after every score. Is this mandatory or is it done because it’s just easier to high five your teammates and whatnot?
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In women’s lacrosse the referees have to check the sticks after every goal to make sure the stick is legal.
Women’s lacrosse is more strict with like how deep the pockets (the mesh) of the sticks can be than men’s lacrosse because there’s less hitting.
They are too limited to hold the sticks WHILE celebrating, that is the only valid explanation.
This is specifically a college women’s lacrosse thing. The stick gets checked after each goal to make sure that the pocket is legal (a pocket that is too deep is harder to check the ball out of).
In high school or below, sticks are only checked at the beginning of the game or at coach’s request, so players don’t drop their stick for celebration.
As others have said they check the stick for legality after each goal.
Dropping the stick eliminates any potential accusation of post-goal quickly pulling strings tight shenanigans.
From what I understand, women’s lacrosse rules are pretty different, and one of the ways it is different is that there’s not as much hitting, or “checking”, like you might see in men’s lacrosse, or hockey, for instance. Well, in lacrosse, checking has the potential to knock the ball out of the little pocket on the end of the stick. In women’s lacrosse, since hitting is different, they aren’t allowed to have a pocket in their stick as deep as a man’s stick – otherwise, since contact isn’t the same, the ball would be more difficult to get out if it was the same depth as in men’s lacrosse.
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