Neighboring programs combine for summer Sixers lacrosse: mixed-town rosters and weekly games at one site — compact on purpose, serious about reps, and shaped together as clubs sign on.
Town programs don't share one calendar — and plenty of athletes put their sticks down once organized lacrosse throttles back. Sixers creates regular competition worth traveling for.
A lot of girls aren't touching their lacrosse routinely unless there's a team counting on them. Without structure, reps disappear fast — even among motivated athletes.
Sixers is small-sided lacrosse: short games, a shot clock, and everyone playing both ends of the field — exactly the kind of pace that keeps fundamentals sharp.
Five strong programs all within a 15-minute drive — Cranford, Westfield, Scotch Plains, Springfield, and Clark. The pieces are already here.
5 field players + 1 goalie. Smaller field, more touches, more shots — ideal for development.
Four 10-minute quarters with a 60-second shot clock. Built for tempo.
No specialized positions. Subs on the fly. Every girl gets defensive AND offensive reps.
Compact game length means we can run a full 3-game slate in one shared game-day window.
Players come from five towns onto mixed squads — kept intentionally tight so nobody rides the bench all night. Town coaches assign each athlete a 1–5 rating; the league uses points-based balancing — not a draft — so competitive totals stay even while hometown clusters disappear.
All eligible girls from the five towns register through one coordinated league signup — mechanics finalized with participating clubs.
Each girl is rated 1–5 by her town coaches: 5 marks a dominant player, 1 marks someone totally new to the game. No league-run skills assessment or combine.
Ratings feed a balancing matrix: players land on squads so combined skill stays as level as possible — how many jerseys we print grows naturally if interest warrants it. Grade level, hometown program, and natural position all inform placement — Sixers blurs traditional roles, but positions still help us spread strengths evenly.
Final rosters stay mixed across all five towns — tuned so every jersey stays in the fight week to week. Bigger turnout simply means more balanced squads under the same philosophy.
Designed to break even — with any surplus rolling back into Cranford LC.
Weekly windows covering the July–August core season; championship wrapped by early September at the latest. Memorial / TBD.
A warm handoff to your peers in Westfield, SP/F, Springfield, and Clark.
Partner clubs aligned on signup and waivers so families across towns have a simple path — specific tooling agreed among programs.
Help recruiting enough head coaches for every jersey color on the field and coordinating the coach-submitted 1–5 ratings from each town.
From spring approvals through championship weekend — core season runs July–August, with everything wrapped by early September at the latest.
Stick skills, conditioning, and game IQ stay fed with intentional reps instead of drifting.
Builds standing relationships with four neighboring lacrosse programs.
Sponsor dollars and surplus registration roll back into Cranford LC.
New head-coach reps from your volunteer pool — leadership stretches across every jersey.
Athletes show up for whatever comes next already in game rhythm — not rebuilding from scratch.
Cranford becomes the home of girls' Sixers lacrosse in Union County.
A compact summer league that keeps girls playing together — sharpen skills, build rivalries, leave the heavy ops talk for when clubs say yes.