SEVEN million page views over the last year (and counting)....

After 11 years, CollegeLAX (www.collegelax.us) has evolved into one of the most visited lacrosse sites on the web! Almost 7000 lacrosse players on 213 MCLA teams from coast to coast plus countless coaches, parents, officials, and fans track their favorite sport on CollegeLAX. CollegeLAX currently serves up several hundred thousand page views each month and moves between 1 and 5 gigabytes of bandwidth each day! The CollegeLAX web site remains one of the most visited lacrosse sites on the web!

CollegeLAX exists to primarily cover and promote the teams of the Men's Collegiate Lacrosse Association (MCLA). 213 Men's Collegiate lacrosse clubs compete under the MCLA banner from coast to coast each year in one of nine member conferences. Name schools like Florida State, Michigan, BYU, Cal, Colorado State, Georgia Tech, Pittsburgh, Washington, Boston College, Texas, Illinois, Arizona, Minnesota, Oregon, UCLA, USC, Florida, Tennessee, Utah, Virginia Tech and many more. 213 teams in 10 conferences from Boston to San Diego, from Seattle to Miami, and from Minnesota down to Texas!

The season concludes each year in a spirited fashion at the MCLA National Championship Tournament where 28 different college teams convene for 5 straight days to compete for one of two national titles. Last year, Michigan won it's first MCLA Division 1 national championship over Chapman while Westminster knocked off Grand Valley State to win their first ever MCLA Division 2 national championship. The entire five day national tournament was held in Dallas with the semifinals and finals being held in historic Texas Stadium (former home of the Dallas Cowboys).

CollegeLAX's heaviest web traffic occurs during the spring season when thousands flock to the site on a daily basis. Players, coaches, and fans visit CollegeLAX daily and weekly for up to the minute scores, schedules, Top 25 polls, statistics, rosters, articles, audio podcasts, game photographs, and more. Traffic remains robust throughout the balance of the year as fans continue to visit CollegeLAX for timely updates about other levels of lacrosse including professional, collegiate varsity, and high school.

CollegeLAX, which previously existed as USLIA.com for 8 years, debuted with a brand new graphic design in October 2006. With active Message Forums, scores, schedules, Top 25 polls, news, blogs, and online contests, the web site remains one of the most visited lacrosse web pages on the Internet!

Lacrosse Information and Demographics
"A longtime niche sport, lacrosse is the fastest growing game in the US at every level. The appeal? It's a neat composite of other sports, it's fast, it's easy to learn. And it's cool."

"A 2004 survey of 400 sports-industry executives identified lacrosse as the pro niche sport most likely to bust out."

"What's happening today... the surge of interest in lacrosse among boys and girls, the spread of the game westward, the seeping of lacrosse into the culture at large..."

Excerpts from "Get on the Stick"
By Alexander Wolff (Sports Illustrated)
April 25, 2005

Lacrosse, considered to be America's first sport, was born of the North American Indian, christened by the French, and adapted and raised by the Canadians. Modern lacrosse has been embraced by athletes and enthusiasts of the United States and the British Commonwealth for over a century.

The sport of lacrosse is a combination of basketball, soccer and hockey. Anyone can play lacrosse--the big or the small. The game requires and rewards coordination and agility, not brawn. Quickness and speed are two highly prized qualities in lacrosse. An exhilarating sport, lacrosse is fast-paced and full of action. Long sprints up and down the field with abrupt starts and stops, precision passes and dodges are routine in men's and women's lacrosse. Lacrosse is played with a stick, the crosse, which must be mastered by the player to throw, catch and scoop the ball.

Once a minor pastime played in the shadows of baseball stadiums in the Northeast of the United States, lacrosse has become a national sport with more than 400,000 active players at the youth, high school, college, post-collegiate, and professional levels. Over the last 10 years, lacrosse participation increases by around 10% annually as the sport explodes all over the country.

The National Federation of High Schools (NFHS) has data that confirms that lacrosse is the fastest growing sport at the high school level over the last 10-year period. The sport has been recently sanctioned or formally recognized in the states of California, Minnesota, Florida, Georgia, Michigan, and Connecticut since 2000.

CollegeLAX visitors are mostly males, aged 18 - 35. And they are loyal and smart! Most web site visitors have either graduated from a four-year college/university or are currently attending an institution of higher learning. This influential and trend-setting market of die-hard college lacrosse fans and players are a powerful, trend setting group with disposable income. Put your product in front of this group today!

(NOTE: Some of this information is courtesy of US Lacrosse - www.uslacrosse.org. US Lacrosse was founded on January 1, 1998, as the national governing body of men's and women's lacrosse.)

Recent Monthly CollegeLAX Web Stats
November, 2006: 43,329 visits/15,797 unique visitors/267,892 page views
December, 2006: 43,705 visits/16,435 unique visitors/261,063 page views
January, 2007: 51,458 visits/18,912 unique visitors/312,959 page views
February, 2007: 104,527 visits/29,941 unique visitors/724,119 page views
March, 2007: 144,770 visits/41,541 unique visitors/921,461 page views
April, 2007: 182,616 visits/51,140 unique visitors/1,161,089 page views
May, 2007: 175,744 visits/48,097 unique visitors/1,366,965 page views
June, 2007: 50,329 visits/17,841 unique visitors/264,202 page views
July, 2007: 37,391 visits/14,178 unique visitors/173,573 page views
August, 2007: 39,747 visits/14,402 unique visitors/202,036 page views
September, 2007: 44,391 visits/19,487 unique visitors/224,645 page views
October, 2007: 56,266 visits/19,208 unique visitors/304,763 page views
November, 2007: 45,907 visits/16,722 unique visitors/227,238 page views
December, 2007: 36,747 visits/14,578 unique visitors/179,009 page views
January, 2008: 54,931 visits/21,023 unique visitors/286,163 pages views
February, 2008: 122,575 visits/38,054 unique visitors/715,095 page views
March, 2008: 158,756 visits/46,487 unique visitors/935,484 page views
April, 2008: 186,667 visits/52,619 unique visitors/1,095,652 page views

ALL TIME since new site redesign (10/25/06 - 04/30/08):
1,587,829 visits/391,852 unique visitors/9,682,159 page views

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