Lacrosse has had a recent surge within the sports world as pro-leagues and Tik-Tok have provided lacrosse with a plethora of publicity. Lacrosse has engaging gameplay, a wild depth of history within sports, and more scholarship opportunities to give to students who may not have it elsewhere for this sport. This also gives the school an opportunity to promote growth and bring in more students through the sport as a whole and allows for Covenant College to put on more camps for the summer and fall and also brings in more visitors to the school through these camps as they play. Instilling Covenant values into a rich historic sport like lacrosse would be a perfect match for the college. Although many people want a football team, lacrosse would be a better fit and would surge in popularity around campus. Lacrosse would first start off as a club team and build off of that, finding coaches and scholarship players. This would also benefit former students for big alumni events; rather than just soccer, alumni can come and support the new sports team Covenant College has to offer through a positive sports expansion. Along with this, it could lead to an expansion of our athletic conferences as some other colleges would be encouraged to start club lacrosse as well, leading potentially to a fully fledged D3 Lacrosse team.
The challenges that could come with building a lacrosse team could be a couple of things such as differing opinions, limited field space, and finding the funds to build a field for the lacrosse team to perform and practice. The first form action would be to start it off as a club lacrosse team and test it out through exhibitions with other schools until Covenant gets an established head coach and recruiting system. The next form of action would be to get community engagement, donors and, of course, players through those donors which would include scholarships and a place to practice. Promotion of a new team would not just require getting a group of players and coaches together—it would also require bringing in the right people to not just teach the game of lacrosse but also to instill Christian values into daily practices and encourage players to be better teammates so that these players can grow regardless of their background.