The Coquitlam Adanacs are a Canadian box lacrosse

Box lacrosse

Box lacrosse, also known as indoor lacrosse and sometimes shortened to boxla, LAX or simply box, is an indoor version of lacrosse played mostly in North America. The game originated in Canada, where it is the most popular version of the game played in contrast to the traditional field lacrosse game...

 team based in Coquitlam, British Columbia

British Columbia

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. The Adanacs play in B.C.'s seven team Western Lacrosse Association

Western Lacrosse Association

The Western Lacrosse Association is an amateur league of men's Senior A box lacrosse sanctioned by the Canadian Lacrosse Association. It consists of seven teams, based in cities throughout southwestern British Columbia. Each year, the playoff teams battle for the right to compete against the...

 (WLA), whose champion competes against Ontario's Major Series Lacrosse

Major Series Lacrosse

Major Series Lacrosse is a Senior A box lacrosse league based out of Ontario, Canada sanctioned by the Ontario Lacrosse Association. Most of the players in the league play or have played in the National Lacrosse League. Each year, the playoff teams battle for the right to compete against the...

 champion for the Mann Cup

Mann Cup

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 every September.

The Adanacs originally started as a basketball

Basketball

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 team during the 1920's in New Westminster. The team expanded to lacrosse and played as the Adanacs until 1951. In 1965, a new Coquitlam Adanacs lacrosse team was formed by old Adanac players, and won the Mann Cup in 2001.

The Adanacs play their home games at the Coquitlam Sports Centre

Coquitlam Sports Centre

Coquitlam Sports Centre is a multi-purpose all-season recreation complex in Coquitlam, British Columbia. The facility is used by a wide variety of groups including hockey, lacrosse, and ringette teams, curlers, and figure skaters....

.

The Adanacs hold the unique distinction of winning the "Nations in 1980" the first world championship of indoor (box in Canada) lacrosse by defeating the North American Natives, composed of First Nations players, in a nationally televised game from Vancouver's Pacific Coliseum on July 17, 1980. This event was also unique in that the North American Natives were the first to team to ever represent First Nations people in a world championship in any sport.

Trivia

• The name "ADANAC" is simply "CANADA" spelled backwards.
• The team played the 1968 season in Portland, Oregon
  Portland, Oregon
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  , but returned the following season.

All time Record

Season	Team Name	Games	Win	Losses	Tie	GF	GA	Points	Playoffs
1965	Coquitlam Adanacs	30	12	18	0	272	339	24
1966	Coquitlam Adanacs	30	19	11	0	314	241	38
1967	Coquitlam Adanacs	30	14	15	1	274	254	29
1968	Portland Adanacs	38	24	14	0	413	365	48
1969	Coquitlam Adanacs	29	26	3	0	382	242	52
1970	Coquitlam Adanacs	30	14	16	0	350	364	28
1971	Coquitlam Adanacs	31	18	12	1	429	390	37
1972	Coquitlam Adanacs	36	9	23	0	383	566	18
1973	Coquitlam Adanacs	25	16	9	0	396	350	32
1974	Coquitlam Adanacs	24	8	15	1	298	358	17
1975	Coquitlam Adanacs	24	8	16	0	286	383	16
1976	Coquitlam Adanacs	24	9	15	0	316	356	18
1977	Coquitlam Adanacs	24	11	13	0	297	288	22
1978	Coquitlam Adanacs	24	10	13	1	310	332	21
1979	Coquitlam Adanacs	30	17	12	1	427	382	35
1980	Coquitlam Adanacs	24	15	9	0	287	268	30
1981	Coquitlam Adanacs	24	17	7	0	333	262	34
1982	Coquitlam Adanacs	24	8	16	0	280	308	16
1983	Coquitlam Adanacs	24	10	14	0	256	263	20
1984	Coquitlam Adanacs	24	10	14	0	265	275	20
1985	Coquitlam Adanacs	24	14	10	0	227	200	28
1986	Coquitlam Adanacs	24	10	14	0	204	245	20
1987	Coquitlam Adanacs	24	13	11	0	226	226	26
1988	Coquitlam Adanacs	24	13	11	0	226	195	26
1989	Coquitlam Adanacs	24	11	13	0	242	249	22
1990	Coquitlam Adanacs	24	6	18	0	203	242	12
1991	Coquitlam Adanacs	24	18	6	0	268	198	36
1992	Coquitlam Adanacs	24	10	14	0	191	228	20
1993	Coquitlam Adanacs	23	17	6	0	251	212	34
1994	Coquitlam Adanacs	20	13	7	0	215	199	26
1995	Coquitlam Adanacs	25	11	11	3	236	226	25
1996	Coquitlam Adanacs	20	5	15	0	158	190	10
1997	Coquitlam Adanacs	20	9	10	1	169	171	19
1998	Coquitlam Adanacs	25	15	9	1	255	216	31
1999	Coquitlam Adanacs	25	18	7	0	248	201	36
2000	Coquitlam Adanacs	25	14	11	0	278	276	28
2001	Coquitlam Adanacs	20	12	8	0	225	224	24	Won Mann Cup Mann Cup The Mann Cup is the trophy awarded to the senior men's lacrosse champions of Canada. The championship series is played between the Western Lacrosse Association champion and the Major Series Lacrosse champion...
2002	Coquitlam Adanacs	20	13	6	1	264	205	27
2003	Coquitlam Adanacs	20	17	3	0	266	195	34
2004	Coquitlam Adanacs	20	11	9	0	223	200	22
2005	Coquitlam Adanacs	18	13	4	1	267	198	27
2006	Coquitlam Adanacs	18	11	6	1	192	187	23
2007	Coquitlam Adanacs	18	9	7	2	178	188	20
2008	Coquitlam Adanacs	18	13	3	2	180	135	28
2009	Coquitlam Adanacs	18	9	9	0	171	186	18
Total	45 seasons	1,094	580	493	17	12,131	11,778	1,177

External links

• Coquitlam Adanacs homepage
• Western Lacrosse Association