2008 International Lacrosse Federation Under-19 World Lacrosse Championships
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The 2008 International Lacrosse Federation Under–19 World Lacrosse Championships (U–19's) was held at Percy Perry Stadium
in Coquitlam, British Columbia
from July 3 to July 12. The event was sponsored by the International Lacrosse Federation. This lacrosse
tournament is held about every four years, and teams are composed of players that are under the age of nineteen.
This was the last major event to be sponsored by the ILF. In August 2008, the ILF merged with the former governing body for international women's lacrosse
, the International Federation of Women's Lacrosse Associations, to form the Federation of International Lacrosse (FIL). Future Under–19 championships will be sponsored by FIL.
The United States
won the gold medal, the silver medal winners were Canada
and the bronze medal went to the Iroquois Nationals
.
The Blue Division was composed of the following six elite teams: the United States
had won each of the International Lacrosse Federation's Under-19 World Lacrosse Championship tournaments since its inception in 1988, Canada
led by head coach Gary Gait
, Iroquois Nationals
, this Native American
team is only sanctioned to compete in lacrosse internationally, the up and coming England
team, Australia
, who won the bronze medal in 2003, and Japan
, who moved up to the Blue Division after going undefeated in the Red Division in 2003.
The Red Division included three nations making their first appearance in an Under–19 World Lacrosse Championship tournament. Bermuda
, Finland
, and Scotland
are making their first appearance in the tournament. The nations of Wales
and South Korea
are making their second appearances in the Under-19 World Lacrosse Championship. Germany
is also participating, but was granted a waiver by the ILF to field a team consisting of Under-21 year olds.
WPct. = Winning Percentage, GF = Goals For, GA = Goals Against, P.I.M. = Penalty Minutes, PPG= Points per Game
The round robin portion of the tournament determined seeding for the semi-finals and the placing games. The top two teams in the Red Division are awarded automatic semi-final berths, while the third and fourth seeded teams from the Red Division meet up with the first and second seeded teams from the Blue Division, respectively, in a semi-final "play-in game.
The round robin portion of the tournament saw two teams go undefeated in their divisions. In the Red Division, the United States
defeated all five oppenants in their division to gain the top seed in the semifinals. In the Blue Division, Germany
won its five round robin games. Prior to this tournament, Germany had never won an international U-19 contest.
In the Red Division there were a number of highly contested games. Canada
defeated the Iroquois Nationals
in a close game 15–12. England
defeated Australia
in an overtime game 12–11.
The United States earned one of the automatic semi-final berths by winning the division, while Canada earned the second spot based on it 4–1 record. The remaining two semi-finals spots were earned by a series of Play-in game.
The "play-in games" featured the top-ranked Blue Division Germany team facing up against Team England. The English defeated Germany 16–2. The Iroquois Nationals met Team Scotland, and were victorious with a final score of 28–2. The Iroquois Nationals advanced to the semifinals.
face England
, and the Iroquois Nationals
face Team Canada
. The United States defeated England 25–5, extending their all-time Under-19 tournament record to 35-0. Team Canada defeated the Iroquois Nationals 23–12 on the play of attacker Mark Cockerton (son of Hall of Famer Stan Cockerton
) who scored five goals in the contest.
|The finals took place on July 12, 2008, and was won once again by the United States with a final score of 19–12. This is the United States sixth Under-19 World Lacrosse Championship gold medal, and their third consecutive finals victory over Team Canada. The United States was led by the play of goalkeeper Adam Ghitelman and three goals by captain Craig Dowd.
In the bronze medal game, Iroquois Nationals
defeated England.
Percy Perry Stadium
Percy Perry Stadium is a multi-purpose, fully lit stadium in Coquitlam, British Columbia. It was built for the 1991 B.C. Summer Games, as part of the district's 100th anniversary, and has featured events with crowds of over 4,000 spectators...
in Coquitlam, British Columbia
Coquitlam, British Columbia
Coquitlam is a city in the Lower Mainland of British Columbia, Canada. Coquitlam is mainly a suburban city, and is one of the 21 municipalities comprising Metro Vancouver. According to the 2007 Canadian Census, it is the 5th-largest city in British Columbia...
from July 3 to July 12. The event was sponsored by the International Lacrosse Federation. This lacrosse
Lacrosse
Lacrosse is a team sport of Native American origin played using a small rubber ball and a long-handled stick called a crosse or lacrosse stick, mainly played in the United States and Canada. It is a contact sport which requires padding. The head of the lacrosse stick is strung with loose mesh...
tournament is held about every four years, and teams are composed of players that are under the age of nineteen.
This was the last major event to be sponsored by the ILF. In August 2008, the ILF merged with the former governing body for international women's lacrosse
Women's lacrosse
Women's lacrosse, sometimes shortened to wlax or lax, is a sport played with twelve players on each team. Originally played by the indigenous peoples of the Americas, the first tribe to play it was the Hauser tribe, of the Great Plains. The modern women's game was introduced in 1890 at the St...
, the International Federation of Women's Lacrosse Associations, to form the Federation of International Lacrosse (FIL). Future Under–19 championships will be sponsored by FIL.
The United States
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
won the gold medal, the silver medal winners were Canada
Canada
Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...
and the bronze medal went to the Iroquois Nationals
Iroquois Nationals
The Iroquois Nationals are the national lacrosse team of the Six Nations of the Iroquois League that competes in international competition. The team was admitted to the International Lacrosse Federation in 1990 and is the only Native American/First Nations team sanctioned to compete in any sport...
.
Teams
The 2008 tournament saw twelve nations competing in the championship. Teams were split into two division: the elite "Blue Division" and the "Red Division" consisting of nations where lacrosse is still developing. The tournament consisted of round robin play within a team's division, where each team played every team in its division once. Round robin play established seedings for the following series of single elimination play-in games to compete in the "placing" or semi-final round.The Blue Division was composed of the following six elite teams: the United States
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
had won each of the International Lacrosse Federation's Under-19 World Lacrosse Championship tournaments since its inception in 1988, Canada
Canada
Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...
led by head coach Gary Gait
Gary Gait
Gary Charles Gait is widely regarded as the best lacrosse player of all time, just above his twin brother Paul. He has starred at the NCAA level at Syracuse University, at the professional level in the National Lacrosse League and Major League Lacrosse, and at the international level for the...
, Iroquois Nationals
Iroquois Nationals
The Iroquois Nationals are the national lacrosse team of the Six Nations of the Iroquois League that competes in international competition. The team was admitted to the International Lacrosse Federation in 1990 and is the only Native American/First Nations team sanctioned to compete in any sport...
, this Native American
Indigenous peoples of the Americas
The indigenous peoples of the Americas are the pre-Columbian inhabitants of North and South America, their descendants and other ethnic groups who are identified with those peoples. Indigenous peoples are known in Canada as Aboriginal peoples, and in the United States as Native Americans...
team is only sanctioned to compete in lacrosse internationally, the up and coming England
England
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...
team, Australia
Australia
Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...
, who won the bronze medal in 2003, and Japan
Japan
Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...
, who moved up to the Blue Division after going undefeated in the Red Division in 2003.
The Red Division included three nations making their first appearance in an Under–19 World Lacrosse Championship tournament. Bermuda
Bermuda
Bermuda is a British overseas territory in the North Atlantic Ocean. Located off the east coast of the United States, its nearest landmass is Cape Hatteras, North Carolina, about to the west-northwest. It is about south of Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, and northeast of Miami, Florida...
, Finland
Finland
Finland , officially the Republic of Finland, is a Nordic country situated in the Fennoscandian region of Northern Europe. It is bordered by Sweden in the west, Norway in the north and Russia in the east, while Estonia lies to its south across the Gulf of Finland.Around 5.4 million people reside...
, and Scotland
Scotland
Scotland is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. Occupying the northern third of the island of Great Britain, it shares a border with England to the south and is bounded by the North Sea to the east, the Atlantic Ocean to the north and west, and the North Channel and Irish Sea to the...
are making their first appearance in the tournament. The nations of Wales
Wales
Wales is a country that is part of the United Kingdom and the island of Great Britain, bordered by England to its east and the Atlantic Ocean and Irish Sea to its west. It has a population of three million, and a total area of 20,779 km²...
and South Korea
South Korea
The Republic of Korea , , is a sovereign state in East Asia, located on the southern portion of the Korean Peninsula. It is neighbored by the People's Republic of China to the west, Japan to the east, North Korea to the north, and the East China Sea and Republic of China to the south...
are making their second appearances in the Under-19 World Lacrosse Championship. Germany
Germany
Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...
is also participating, but was granted a waiver by the ILF to field a team consisting of Under-21 year olds.
Round Robin results
| Earned Automatic Semifinal berth |
| Qualified for Play-in Round |
| Blue Division | |||||||||||
| # | Team | Wins | Losses | Points | WPct. | G.F. | G.A. | Assists | Penalties | P.I.M. | PPG |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | United States | 5 | 0 | 10 | 1 | 108 | 41 | 27 | 32 | 24.5 | 9 |
| 2 | Canada | 4 | 1 | 8 | 0.8 | 107 | 45 | 13 | 34 | 27.5 | 12 |
| 3 | Iroquois Nationals | 3 | 2 | 6 | 0.6 | 92 | 74 | 11 | 39 | 36.5 | 15 |
| 4 | England | 2 | 3 | 4 | 0.4 | 63 | 87 | 7 | 44 | 34.5 | 9 |
| 5 | Australia | 1 | 4 | 2 | 0.2 | 62 | 81 | 1 | 46 | 35.5 | 14 |
| 6 | Japan | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 23 | 127 | 3 | 22 | 15 | 2 |
| Red Division | |||||||||||
| # | Team | Wins | Losses | Points | WPct. | G.F. | G.A. | Assists | Penalties | P.I.M. | PPG |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Germany | 5 | 0 | 10 | 1 | 67 | 25 | 29 | 34 | 25 | 6 |
| 2 | Scotland | 3 | 2 | 6 | 0.6 | 55 | 36 | 13 | 38 | 31 | 2 |
| 3 | Wales | 3 | 2 | 6 | 0.6 | 46 | 31 | 8 | 65 | 54 | 2 |
| 4 | Bermuda | 3 | 2 | 6 | 0.6 | 40 | 42 | 5 | 51 | 38.5 | 4 |
| 5 | Finland | 1 | 4 | 2 | 0.2 | 27 | 61 | 3 | 50 | 40 | 2 |
| 6 | South Korea | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 18 | 58 | 1 | 34 | 28 | 4 |
The round robin portion of the tournament determined seeding for the semi-finals and the placing games. The top two teams in the Red Division are awarded automatic semi-final berths, while the third and fourth seeded teams from the Red Division meet up with the first and second seeded teams from the Blue Division, respectively, in a semi-final "play-in game.
The round robin portion of the tournament saw two teams go undefeated in their divisions. In the Red Division, the United States
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
defeated all five oppenants in their division to gain the top seed in the semifinals. In the Blue Division, Germany
Germany
Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...
won its five round robin games. Prior to this tournament, Germany had never won an international U-19 contest.
In the Red Division there were a number of highly contested games. Canada
Canada
Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...
defeated the Iroquois Nationals
Iroquois Nationals
The Iroquois Nationals are the national lacrosse team of the Six Nations of the Iroquois League that competes in international competition. The team was admitted to the International Lacrosse Federation in 1990 and is the only Native American/First Nations team sanctioned to compete in any sport...
in a close game 15–12. England
England
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...
defeated Australia
Australia
Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...
in an overtime game 12–11.
The United States earned one of the automatic semi-final berths by winning the division, while Canada earned the second spot based on it 4–1 record. The remaining two semi-finals spots were earned by a series of Play-in game.
The "play-in games" featured the top-ranked Blue Division Germany team facing up against Team England. The English defeated Germany 16–2. The Iroquois Nationals met Team Scotland, and were victorious with a final score of 28–2. The Iroquois Nationals advanced to the semifinals.
Semi-finals
The July 10 semifinals saw the United StatesUnited States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
face England
England
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...
, and the Iroquois Nationals
Iroquois Nationals
The Iroquois Nationals are the national lacrosse team of the Six Nations of the Iroquois League that competes in international competition. The team was admitted to the International Lacrosse Federation in 1990 and is the only Native American/First Nations team sanctioned to compete in any sport...
face Team Canada
Canada
Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...
. The United States defeated England 25–5, extending their all-time Under-19 tournament record to 35-0. Team Canada defeated the Iroquois Nationals 23–12 on the play of attacker Mark Cockerton (son of Hall of Famer Stan Cockerton
Stan Cockerton
Stan Cockerton was an All-American lacrosse player for the NC State Wolfpack men's lacrosse team from 1977 to 1980, leading the Wolfpack to its only NCAA Men's Lacrosse Championship tournament appearance in 1979. He is ranked third all-time in NCAA career goals with 193. He led the Wolfpack to 30...
) who scored five goals in the contest.
Finals
| 1st Qtr | 2nd Qtr | 3rd Qtr | 4th Qtr | Final | |
| US | 7 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 19 |
| CAN | 3 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 12 |
|The finals took place on July 12, 2008, and was won once again by the United States with a final score of 19–12. This is the United States sixth Under-19 World Lacrosse Championship gold medal, and their third consecutive finals victory over Team Canada. The United States was led by the play of goalkeeper Adam Ghitelman and three goals by captain Craig Dowd.
In the bronze medal game, Iroquois Nationals
Iroquois Nationals
The Iroquois Nationals are the national lacrosse team of the Six Nations of the Iroquois League that competes in international competition. The team was admitted to the International Lacrosse Federation in 1990 and is the only Native American/First Nations team sanctioned to compete in any sport...
defeated England.
All tournament awards
| Award | Winner | Team |
|---|---|---|
| Most Valuable Player | Adam Jones | Canada |
| Top Defenseman | Peter Fallon | United States |
| Top Midfielder | Adam Jones | Canada |
| Top Attacker | Craig Dowd | United States |
| Top Goaltender | Adam Ghitelman | United States |