Two organizations that help oversee women’s college lacrosse are reexamining the game’s rules and safety protocols after a Yale attacker was seriously injured last month in a game at Stony Brook University on Long Island.
The apparent cross-check, which is illegal in women’s lacrosse but was not called a penalty, left Yale sophomore Taylor Everson with a ruptured kidney and severe internal bleeding that caused her to be hospitalized for two weeks.
“The ball went down, and I went to go grab it and I shot it and a girl kind of came in my blind spot and cross-checked me in the side,” Everson told ESPN. “It felt like knives were being stabbed into me.”
In the wake of Everson’s injury on Feb. 25, the Collegiate Women’s Lacrosse Officials Association sent video clips of cross-checks to game officials in hopes of cracking down on the illegal maneuver.
Leaders of the Intercollegiate Women’s Lacrosse Coaches Association told member coaches…
