Most recent season or competition: 2019 WPLL season | |
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Sport | Women's lacrosse |
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Founded | 2018 |
First season | 2018 WPLL season |
Ceased | 2020 |
Replaced by | Athletes Unlimited Lacrosse |
CEO | Michele DeJuliis [1] |
No. of teams | 4 |
Last champion(s) | Brave (1) (2019 WPLL season) |
Most titles | Command Brave (1 each) |
The Women's Professional Lacrosse League (WPLL) was a women's lacrosse league in the United States. The league was formally composed of five teams: the Brave, Command, Fight, Fire, and Pride. [1] [2] The league announced on February 27, 2020, that it would restructure and downsize the league to four teams, [3] which would ultimately be: the Brave, Command, Fight, and Pride. [1] [2] League play started on Saturday, June 2, 2018. [1] [4]
After cancelling the 2020 season in April due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the league announced on August 6, 2020, that it would be closing down, and that some of its athletes would be given opportunities to play with Athletes Unlimited. [5] The new Athletes Unlimited league began play in July 2021. [6]
Team | Coach | Joined | Left |
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Brave | Sonia LaMonica | 2018 | 2020 |
Command | Amy Patton | 2018 | 2020 |
Fight | Shannon Smith | 2018 | 2020 |
Fire | Ricky Fried | 2018 | 2020 [a] |
Pride | Katie Rowan | 2018 | 2020 |
On April 16, 2019, ESPN and the WPLL announced [7] that the 10-game 2019 [8] regular season would air on ESPN3 and the ESPN App. Meanwhile, the postseason semifinals would on ESPN3, with the championship game airing on ESPNU. [9] [10]