Women's lacrosse was founded by the indigenous people of the Americas, right around the time the Eurpeons came to the Americas. However, the modern day game was intoduced in 1890. The Native Americans played lacrosse on 15 mile long fields and was said to have 1000 players per side. Lacrosse was used to settle agruments and to create strong men. The Natives used a stick as a shaft, a woven net as the head, and a stone, clay, deerskin, or wooden ball.
The first women's lacrosse game was played at St Leonard's School in Scotland, but the first women's lacrosse team was created by Rosabelle Sinclair in Baltimore, Maryland. Rosabelle Sinclair quotes, "Lacrosse, as women play it, is an orderly pastime that has little in common with the men's tribal warfare version except the long-handled racket or crosse (stick) that gives the sport its name. It's true that the object in both the men's and women's lacrosse is to send a ball through a goal by means of the racket, but whereas men resort to brute strength the women depend solely on skill."