For Immediate Release

World Champion Megan Kinna Named Full-Time

Director of Business Development and Girls Programming 

 NEW WESTMINSTER, B.C. - October 1st, 2022

Fusion Lacrosse is proud to announce that Team Canada and Big Ten champion Megan Kinna will be taking on a full-time role managing both the girls travel teams and the “Lacrosse for Schools” classroom program. Kinna will also be assisting on the administrative side of the operation on top of her other roles with the organization.

Kinna began her lacrosse career at the age of four. After more than a decade of playing a combination of box and field lacrosse, first on boys clubs and later with girls clubs, she went on to play four years at Northwestern University where she would win a Big Ten title. Outside of university, Kinna helped Team Canada win a gold medal at the U-19 World Games. She also won gold at the World Game’s Sixes tournament this past summer.

In 2015, Kinna began her coaching career. She coached the U-15 Maple Ridge Burrards girls team to a provincial championship in her first year on the sideline. Later on while at Northwestern, Kinna would take part coaching camps and clinics at the school and would also begin helping youth players during one-on-one lessons.

“Megan’s accomplishments as a Division I athlete and National Team member make her one of the best female lacrosse players in the world,” Fusion West Founder/CEO Kevin Crowley stated. “Bringing her on full-time is going to be key for the continued success of Fusion Lacrosse and the growth of the sport in B.C., especially on the girls side. Growing the game at the grass roots is an integral part of Fusion’s vision to boost numbers and raise the level of play across the province. Having a committed person like Megan on our team will us help take the sport to the next level.”

The newly created “Lacrosse for Schools” program will be one of Kinna’s main responsibilities. The program will introduce kids to the game of lacrosse and provide them an opportunity to learn the sport.

“We want to get kids excited about this sport, a sport that they may have never seen before,” Kinna said. “The more kids that we can expose to lacrosse, the more kids we should have signing up for our community teams and playing within their local organizations. We’re on the right path, but there’s a lot of work yet to be done and I’m excited that I’ll be able to have a hand in growing the game in B.C.”

For Kinna, joining Fusion West Lacrosse is more than just teaching the next generation about lacrosse, she hopes to inspire kids through her story and the values she has learned by playing the sport.

“Growing up, there wasn’t many options for girls like myself - I was the only girl playing on the boys team,” Kinna said. “The options to join a community of other lacrosse players, that were also girls was minimal or non existent. I think that having this representation now and having girls see that it is possible to succeed in this sport as a female is significant for the future of lacrosse in Canada.”

For more information on Fusion Lacrosse’s “Lacrosse for Schools" program, travel teams, camps and other initiatives head to www.fusionwestlacrosse.com or email megan@fusionwestlacrosse.com