Frank Vascellaro
Reporting
(WCCO) Lacrosse is the hot, new high school sport in Minnesota and having a local professional team adds to all the excitement.
The sport of lacrosse is a perfect fit for Minnesota because it's a lot like hockey on grass. Basically, lacrosse is a game of running, scooping, throwing, and scoring.
Lacrosse started across the Upper Midwest in North America when centuries ago Native Americans played for fun and to settle disputes.
The story is that a French Canadian missionary saw the stick the Indians were using to toss a ball and thought it looked like a Bishop's cross. That's how the sport got the name 'lacrosse'.
"I think the biggest thing is once they see it, and experience a game first hand, they're hooked," said Ryan Ward, a lacrosse player.
Ward plays with Minnesota's professional team lacrosse team, the Swarm. Ward is a typical pro player who grew up in Canada and then got a college scholarship on the East Coast.
At 26, he made the league's all-star team this year but Ward, and the rest of the Swarm, is not your typical pro athletes.
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