- Victoria Shamrocks
The Victoria Shamrocks are a Senior A
box lacrosse club, based in Victoria,British Columbia , Canada. The team competes in the 7-teamWestern Lacrosse Association (WLA).The Shamrocks have won the
Mann Cup 8 times. The Shamrocks can boast that some of the greatestlacrosse players in the world were proud to wear the green and white, includingJack Bionda , Archie Browning, "Whitey" Severson, "Bobby" Monaghan, Kevin Alexander, both Paul andGary Gait , and John Tavares.The team logo is a
shamrock in a circle with "Victoria" above and "Shamrocks" beneath.The Victoria Shamrocks entered the Inter-City Lacrosse League, which is now the WLA, in
1950 . In1983 , the team dropped the Shamrocks name in favour of reflecting their new sponsorship by Payless Gas; Victoria returned as the Shamrocks in1994 .The club won the Mann Cup in
1955 ,1957 ,1979 ,1983 ,1997 ,1999 ,2003 , and2005 .On September 16, 2005, the Victoria Shamrocks won their 8th Mann Cup, defeating the Peterborough Lakers 4 games to 2 in a classic, hard fought series. Shamrocks' Goaltender Anthony Cosmo was awarded the
Mike Kelly Memorial Trophy as the series Most Valuable Player.[http://www.victoriashamrocks.ca/roster.php Current Roster]
[http://www.theboxrocks.com/team_stats/vic_stats.asp Current Stats]
All time Record
External links
* [http://www.victoriashamrocks.ca/ Victoria Shamrocks Official Website]
* [http://www.pbase.com/woody/victoria_sr_shamrocks/ Photos 2007 Home-Games]
* [http://www.theboxrocks.com/ Western Lacrosse Association Website]
* [http://www.jrshamrocks.com/ Victoria Junior "A" Shamrocks]
* [http://www.babyrocks.net/ Victoria Intermediate "A" Shamrocks]
* [http://www.rockslax.com/ Lacrosse news and forum]
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