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Interscholastic varsity lacrosse in Georgia officially started in 1999 when eight schools began playing boys lacrosse and six schools played girls lacrosse. However, several club teams existed in the state before 1999 and traces of lacrosse at the high school level were seen as early as the 1970's (for more about the history of lacrosse in Georgia, go to the History link).
High school girls teams from Georgia have a 116-50-5 record against teams from outside the state. This includes wins over teams from North Carolina, Florida, Tennessee, Texas, Kentucky, Missouri, South Carolina, and Virginia.
Lacrosse was officially sanctioned by the Georgia High School Association in 2002. Georgia is one of 21 states that have lacrosse sanctioned by their state athletics association. Others include are Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Rhode Island, Vermont, and Virginia.

National Lacrosse Trivia ...

A championship game record crowd of 44,920 watched the 2005 NCAA Men's Division I final between Johns Hopkins and Duke at Philadelphia's Lincoln Financial Field. The NCAA Division I men's basketball championship is the only other NCAA championship to have drawn more spectators. The largest crowd to ever watch a lacrosse game was the 46,923 to watch the 2004 NCAA Division I men's semifinals at Baltimore's M&T Bank Stadium.
A crowd of 19,432 watched the 2005 National Lacrosse League championship game between the Toronto Rock and Arizona Sting, setting a new league record. The game was also broadcast live in the US (NBC) and Canada (Score).
A crowd of 6,820 - the largest crowd to ever watch a women's lacrosse game in the US - was on hand at Navy-Marine Corps Memorial Stadium in Annapolis, MD, for the championship game of the IFWLA World Cup between Australia and the US.
In the Academic Progress Rate report issued by the NCAA in the spring of 2005, women's lacrosse was tied for the highest score of any sport (981) and men's lacrosse was also ranked among the highest (964).
Lacrosse is the official team sport for the state of Maryland. It is also the official summer sport of Canada.