Minnesota Elite’s 2027/2028 Gold team is for players to continue developing their skills and play competitively in recruiting tournaments. The 2027/2028 Gold team is a mixed grad-year team of girls in 9th & 10th grades. Training is year-round and players train with with their MN Elite 2027/2028 Gold team all year. We provide the same outstanding coaching and training as our grad-year teams. MN Elite 2027/2028 Gold team attends recruiting tournaments in the summer, as well as play in optional events/tournaments throughout the year. Our coaches will provide challenging training sessions with a focus on player development, increased lacrosse IQ, and game play decision-making throughout the year.

The team fee is for the lacrosse year of September 2025 through July 2026 and includes fall, winter, & summer training and 3 recruiting tournaments. Team fees cover: tournaments, practice field & facility rental, coaching, administrative costs, recruiting advising and planning. Payment plan is available. If there are specific questions, please contact Linda Christianson and Maria Longley Slusser. Be sure to include the first and last name of your player and your players grad year to receive this information.

During the school year, our practices are mainly on Sundays to accommodate those players in other sports (most all our players are multi-sport athletes). During the summer, we mainly practice on weeknights because tournaments are on weekends. Fall and summer practices/training occurs outdoors at centrally located fields (Hopkins, St. Louis Park, Edina). Winter is indoors and currently we are in Eden Prairie on the edge of Edina at Champions Hall.   In addition to our field practices, we also offer Intensives, Running Mechanics, Box and Sixes.

Box Lacrosse Training

In our quest to develop top national players, we offer Box Lacrosse training for all MN Elite 7-12th grade teams!  Full equipment is provided as we suit up to get better, faster through practices and games.  Box lacrosse promotes precision passing, tighter stick skills,  faster thinking with maximum ball reps on an indoor  smaller field.  There is no additional cost to our players.  To learn more about our Box training click HERE.

SIXES TRAINING

We hold regular intra-squad Sixes for club members with international rules to help our girls think and play faster!  Leading the charge is our very own World Sixes Gold Medalist, Lydia Sutton.  This format has exciting rules such as defenders can go through the crease, 30 second shot clock, goalies clear after goals are scored increasing the pace of play.  Learning the nuances from the best in the game, Coach Lydia helps us to be more reactive and confident in game situations. To learn more about Sixes described as  "Lacrosse on the Audubon" click here. 

Intensive Individual Skills Sessions

Back by popular demand,  our 2025-2026 season will include  our “Intensives” training. In this format, we focus on the individual skills of a player in smaller groups at an up-tempo, rapid-fire pace. This advances our skill level and is an addition to game-concept work on turf and field spaces.  These high-rep sessions allow our players to gain confidence in individual skills with essentially minimal or no defense (example dodging 100X each: split dodge, change of hands, stutter step = 300 reps dodging) .  Our objective is to help these moves become intuitive in game scenarios and has proven invaluable in developing  “bold” players. 

Running Mechanics

Goalie Training

We value our goalkeepers and offer dedicated goalie training throughout the year.  Goalies get our robust team training plus goalie-only sessions so you can hone your step, stance, communication, clears and get quicker hands and feet.  Our team of goalies coaches isolate your specific areas of opportunity to help you become the best goalie you can be. Our goalies say these sessions are their favorite part of joining the Club!

RECRUITING

See where MN Elite players go on to play in college HERE.  If your plans include playing college lacrosse, we are here to help you through the entire recruiting journey. All high school teams are provided with a full membership to IWLCA Sports Recruits platform which connects our student athletes with 1,200+ collegiate women's lacrosse coaches. The recruiting journey can last 2-3 years and we strategically help you navigate through every point along the way to include: recruiting seminars,  family 1:1 meetings for sophomores and juniors and expert guidance throughout the entire process.

MEDIA DAY

Included in your team fee for all high school players is high-resolution photos for your lacrosse resume and  IWLCA Sports Recruits platform. Consistent with our desire to offer top quality in everything we do -  these individual player photos are taken with professional cameras and studio lighting.  All electronic files are yours to keep.

Sports Psychology

New this year, we are thrilled to be adding a sports psychology component for all our high school players/ teams.  We have a holistic approach to help our girls perform their very best from shouldering the stresses of playing in front of college coaches and in everyday life as well.  The objective is to give our players the psychological tools to be the best version of themselves!

Our high school teams will participate in national recruiting tournaments and regional events as well. For these tournaments, we will be traveling as a team with blocked hotel rooms and flights. Tournaments will be all-inclusive to include all costs associated with the tournaments except for airfare. This includes: tournament entrance fee, coaching, hotel, all meals/snacks/beverages, chaperones, recruiting, transportation while at the tournament (air fare/travel to the tournament is an additional cost). 

Example of 2025-2026 Required Tournament Schedule

• Morgan's Message
• The Midway
• Southwest Cup
• Blue Ox
• NXT MidAmerica
• Capital Cup

Optional Tournaments

If you want to participate in additional fall or winter "a la carte" events and tournaments, you will have the opportunity to do so. These a la carte events/tournaments are optional and they are offered at an additional cost. All costs will be provided up front so you can make an informed choice whether to do these optional events. These events will be released once they have been confirmed.