WHAT PROMPTED US LACROSSE TO PURSUE A PERFORMANCE STANDARD FOR WOMEN’S LACROSSE HEADGEAR?


The rules of the women’s game, at all levels of play, currently allow for soft headgear to be worn. But without an evidenced-based, performance standard that demonstrates that the product was developed and tested to address those specific impacts most frequently seen in the game, the benefits and risks to those players wearing headgear are at best, unknown.


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US Lacrosse led a multi-year endeavor to bring together experts from the lacrosse industry, epidemiologists, physicians, bio mechanists and the lacrosse community to establish an ASTM women’s lacrosse headgear performance standard, which would help in mitigating forces to the head created by stick and ball impacts. After five years of work, this ASTM


performance standard for women’s lacrosse headgear (F3137) was voted on and approved May 21, 2015, at ASTM’s bi-annual meeting in Anaheim, Calif. The standard is not a design standard nor a rule; it is not meant to mandate headgear for women as part of the uniform, but instead creates guidelines as to what constitutes a safe and proper piece of equipment for the sport.


Ann Kitt Carpenetti, vice president of lacrosse operations, led US Lacrosse efforts to establish a women’s lacrosse headgear standard through ASTM.


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