Lacrosse leaps into Deer Park Primary!

In January 2025, The Lacrosse Foundation approved a grant of £2,500 for Deer Park Primary School in Twickenham.

Thanks to the grant, the school received 60 lacrosse sticks (STX Mini Power 2) and 4 goals (Forza ProFlex), which allowed the school to introduce lacrosse as a core part of their PE curriculum for Years 5 & 6.

Deer Park prides itself on providing all pupils with opportunities to play a variety of sports to encourage health and happiness while helping them discover a passion they can carry with them for life.  Lacrosse certainly seems to have found a warm welcome at the school. As Deer Park told us, “the sport has been growing in popularity at our school over the past few years. The journey began in 2021 when Richmond Lacrosse Club started an after-school lacrosse programme, and the club quickly gained popularity, and each year our pupils have had the opportunity to compete in matches and tournaments against other local primary schools.”

The sport was also promoted in the school by Veronica, a former pupil and player at Richmond Lacrosse Club who “shared her love for the sport” during a school assembly, which encouraged even more pupils to join the after-school club. 

Lacrosse at Deer Park also received a boost when Scotland Lacrosse players Isabella and Grace Penny visited the school in January 2025 to help kick-start its Year 5 lacrosse programme, marking the beginning of an exciting new chapter. This was followed by Sam Perry from Richmond Lacrosse who taught the pupils over the course of six weeks. To the school’s delight this resulted in the children making great progress in mastering foundational skills such as passing, catching, scooping, and running with the ball. These efforts brought a new level of excitement to lacrosse at our school. The links between the school and the Richmond Junior Club will hopefully enable kids to continue to play the game after moving up from Deer Park.

Deer Park acknowledged TLF’s contribution telling us: “We are grateful for the Lacrosse Foundation's generous grant, which has made all this possible. We want to thank Isabella and Grace Penny, and Sam Perry for their support - and we hope many of our pupils will continue to play and enjoy lacrosse long into the future.”