It's a lifelong game. Their first stick should feel like a toy.
LaxKids is where little kids meet lacrosse for the very first time. Water shooters, parachutes, piñatas, obstacle courses, and a coach who already knows their name. Nobody stands in line. Nobody gets left behind.
Most clubs start at ten. Kids start watching at three.
A three-year-old can sign up for soccer, basketball, gymnastics, or t-ball. For lacrosse, families were told to wait five more years, and by then the stick already looks intimidating.
So two teachers who happened to play Division I built the thing that was missing. Not a feeder program. Not a tryout. A first, fun, safe experience with a sport they love, run by people who spend every weekday with kids this age.
Confidence first. Lacrosse second. If a child leaves knowing they can try something new, make mistakes, and feel proud of themselves, that season worked.
Forty-five minutes. Nobody standing around.
Music on before the first kid arrives. Coaches greeting them by name at the cones. Then every few minutes: moving, laughing, competing, learning, succeeding.
Big hello
Names, high fives, and a stick in their hands within sixty seconds of stepping on the field.
Get moving
Obstacle courses, relay races, and games that look like play and build balance, tracking, and body awareness.
Real skills
Scooping, cradling, catching, throwing. Broken into pieces a four-year-old can actually finish.
Big finish
Piñatas, snowballs, water shooters. They leave asking whether they have to go home already.
We coach the child before we coach the athlete.
Every worry you have, we built for.
These are the five things parents tell us before their first session. Tap any one of them.
The lacrosse is the easy part.
Few sports challenge this many developing systems at once. Running, catching, throwing, tracking a moving object, and deciding what to do next, all in the same three seconds.
The surprise is how much they learn while having fun.
"I can't believe my child is actually cradling."
"I've never seen them participate like this."
"They talked about LaxKids all week."
Teachers who happen to be Division I players.
LaxKids wasn't built by marketers. It was built by educators and parents who have spent decades with children this age, and every coach on our fields is trained to teach them.
Alexis Raichle
- Division I lacrosse, Rutgers University
- Master's in Education, Monmouth University
- NEC Defensive Player of the Year & 1st Team All-Conference
- 19 years teaching first grade
- 10 years high school + 15 years club coaching
- Mom of four
Ashley Walsh
- Division I lacrosse, 1st Team All-Conference, Monmouth University
- Master's in Education & Special Education
- 5 years teaching special education
- 5 years coaching collegiate lacrosse at Monmouth
- 10+ years club coaching
- Mom of three
One curriculum spreading across the country.
LaxKids started on Jersey Shore fields and turns up in new towns every season. Every orange ball is a place where a three-year-old picked up a stick for the first time.
Find a field
New Jersey home program + 15 clinics in 12 towns across 8 more states
Every clinic is hosted by a partner club, so registration and payment happen on their site. Don’t see your town? New locations are added every season — ask your local club about bringing LaxKids to you.
Give your kids something they can be excited about all week.
Five weeks. A soft stick. One coach who believes in them before they believe in themselves.
Find your field