The team fee is for the lacrosse year of September 2024 through July 2025 and includes fall, winter, & summer training and 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 Hannah Riggs and Maria 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.
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.
At all levels we bring in an agilities trainer to help our girls to be more explosive and efficient in our running stride. Sound running mechanics also helps our athletes to stave off injury.
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!
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 1,2000+ 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.
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.
As part of a cohesive team, one that trains together and competes together, we have "required" tournaments for the 2026 Team. We are thoughtful in which tournaments we select, participating in the most competitive and high-profile recruiting tournaments for maximum exposure.
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).
If you want to participate in fall/winter additional "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.