Uganda Lacrosse Association (ULA) is one of the few sporting federations that took the country by storm this year with a third consecutive World Championship appearance.

With the sport celebrating its 13th year of existence in Uganda, the lacrosse men’s national team traveled to the USA for their third World Championships from June 21 to July 1 amidst a lot of challenges that delayed the team's travel.

Uganda’s first appearance at the world championships was in 2014 in the USA, and in 2018 in Israel, so this year, Uganda made it clear that they were no surprise guests.

Among other achievements, ULA has witnessed more players going out to play Lacrosse in America on scholarships.

Geoge Ogik broke the deadlock early this year by joining Westcliff University to pursue education alongside Lacrosse. However, Christine Ijawet traveled to Massachusetts for a diploma in nursing as well as lacrosse.

The sport has also been admitted to the Uganda Secondary School Sports Association (USSSA) sport codes hence increasing its reach in schools all over the country this year and plans are underway to have it in more schools as Isaac Kirinya states.

“We have always longed for such a milestone of incorporating Lacrosse in the school's sports calendar and this will grow the talent identification scope for future national team duty,” Kirinya the brain at the forefront of the games' incorporation to the USSSA calendar noted.

This month, the association had an extraordinary general meeting that saw a change in guard overseen by Uganda Olympic Committee General Secretary Beatrice Ayikoru.

Leonard Lubambula, the acting president of the association was succeeded by Liberty Twesiime as president and Douglas Nyakana as general secretary among other members whose mandate is to oversee the smooth running of the sport for the next six months and take it back to the promised land.

Lacrosse was however hit by challenges that risked its possible certificate of recognition being withdrawn by NCS.

The lack of a steadily run lacrosse league limited the fitness and endurance levels of the players. Poor administration also led to the association losing close to sh65m meant to purchase tickets for the team to travel to the USA until now it has not been accounted for, thus leading to a one-year ban from World Lacrosse.