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Sport Clubs are organizations that give students the opportunity to play their favorite sport at a competitive level. The main differences between a Division I (NCAA) program and a sport club team is the level of funding, there is no formal recruiting and we do not have full time coaches. As a sport club, the team receives a limited annual budget from student fee allocations and generates most of their operating budget from dues and fund raising activities. Participating on a sport club team is a good way to keep that competitive edge and have fun at the same time.

State lacrosse is a “virtual varsity” program and we are one of the best club teams in the country. CSU won the US Lacrosse Intercollegiate Associates national championship in 1999 and 2001 and finished second in 2000 and 2002. The Rams beat Stanford 16-7 to win the 2001 championship in St. Louis. More recently the Rams won the 2003 National Championship, beating the University of California, Santa Barbara for the title but fell to UCSB this year for the 2004 crown finishing second. Flip Naumburg, head coach and owner of Rock-It-Pocket, was named the U.S. Lacrosse Coach of the Year in 1999.

Colorado State was the 2000 Rocky Mountain Intercollegiate Lacrosse League Champion, having defeated BYU and the University of Colorado at the RMILL Championships hosted by CSU in Fort Collins in April of 2000. We play a short season in the fall that consists of 3-4 tournaments in addition to the regular spring season. The past three seasons, we have taken Spring Break trips to California and Florida and played Cal, UC San Diego, Sonoma State, Stanford, UCLA, Florida, Florida State, and Auburn.