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Statewide Online Silent Auction Announced!

The 2026 Minnesota Hall of Fame is happy to announce that our statewide online Silent Auction starts on Tuesday, Sept. 14th and ends Sunday, Sept. 27th at 5 pm). To start bidding all you have to do is use the online bidding site. Click Here to get started. Nothing to download! No app! “All proceeds fund our Grow the Game Grants.”

Meet Our 2026 Inductees…

Our 2026 Minnesota Lacrosse Hall of Fame Award winners have just been announced Click Here or visit our Hall of Fame Inductees page for all the details.

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Reminder…
DEADLINE TO REGISTER: Sun., Sept 13th. No day of registration accepted.

The 2026 Minnesota Lacrosse Hall of Fame Award Ceremony & Gala is coming up Sunday, Sept. 27th at the Rush Creek Golf Club’s McMillion ballroom in Maple Grove. Tickets are on sale now for the “Great Minnesota Lacrosse Get Together”. For more details, visit the Award Ceremony Page on this website or use this link to register online: Click Here

Our Story:

Honoring Achievement
Growing the Game
Achieving the History

WHAT SETS US APART IS…we are different than your average Hall of Fame. We don’t just give out awards at a banquet/golf outing. We proactively try to make the sport better, by achieving Minnesota’s past and present lacrosse history, stories and stats on our website, remove financial barriers so more kids can participate with our New Youth Program Builder grants and impact the growth and development of lacrosse in Minnesota with our coach and referee training grants. We are totally dependant on donations and sponsorships. We no longer have a MN Chapter of USA Lacrosse, so there no discretionary funding available and USA Lacrosse the governing body has no mechanism in place to fund us!

OUR IMPACT SO FAR…
1. We are giving our first $1,000 new youth program builder grant to Wilmer, MN.
2. We inducted our first class of 14 Hall of Fame award winners on Sunday Nov 2nd 2025.
3. We plan to recruit 20 new rookie officials and Umpire with our Referee Appreciation & Recruiting Week. Unfortunately, we can’t quantify the many thanks (show of appreciation) that the coaches and players showered the refs during the week of April 11-18.
5. We just announced our 2026 class of 17 inductees who will be honored at the half-time of the 7:30pm game at TCO stadium nad at our Award Ceremony on Sunday, sept 27th.
6. Our new $1,000 Coach & Ref Training Grants will kick in as soon as they are funded by the end of fiscal 2026.

Mark Hellenack – President
Email | mnlaxhalloffame@gmail.com
Phone | 952-457-4515
Web | www.mnlacrossehof.org

HOW YOU CAN MAKE AN IMPACT!…We hope to raise a total of $10,400 from donations during our Aug-Sept fundraising campaign and solicit donors and sponsors at the Sunday, September 27th Awards Ceremony & Gala. Here is a pie chart showing the 2026 projected budget breakdown. If you are passionate about lacrosse, please help us Honor & Grow the sport in Minnesota”.

Use this donation link to give what you can. Every dollar makes a difference…

We are supported by the Jake Anderson “Give 60 for 60” Foundation, who’s four core principles align we ours. To award kindness, sportsmanship, leadership, and character

MISSION:

To honor and achieve the achievements of our state’s most talented players, coaches, referees, early contributors, administrators and growers of the game at our annual Hall of Fame Awards Ceremony & Gala. We also impact the growth and development of the game with our new program builder grants, Coach & Ref Training grants and and programs like our Ref Appreciation & Recruiting week. We are focussed on keeping the history, honoring and growing of lacrosse in Minnesota.

VISION..

Engauge the lacrosse community and make it aware of the rich Native past and present history and roots of the sport and recognize those who have played, coached, officiated/umpired at a high level, administrated or grown the game. We also strive to bring the community together with our events like the Referee Appreciation Week and annual Hall of Fame Awards Ceremony & Gala. Plus promote the grow the game grants we provide to mpact new youth program growth and coach and official training and development.

VALUES..

* Recognition * Partnership * Integrity * Character * Honor * Sportsmanship * Access * Culture * Community * Development * Philanthropy * Youth Access * Equity * Inclusion * Diversity * Transparency * Leadership * Shared Responsibility * History *

NOMINATE SOMEONE FOR THE AWARDS WE OFFER:
Online Nomination: Visit our Nomination Forms page and nominate yourself or someone else for any of our four awards. It’s easy to do, just fill out the online form, and try to download a lacrosse resume and and photo of yourself or the person y9ou nominate. The outline form for the resume is listed along with the criteria for eligibility, nominating & Voting processes on the Nomination Form page of this website..You can also choose to nominate anonymously. We will not post who you nominated.
Email Nomination: If you prefer email your nomination selections, you can send them to Selection Chair, Mark Hellenack at: mnlaxhalloffame@gmail.com or call him at 952-457-4515 to discuss the process.t

Deadline: The deadline for all nominations is Aug 4th, 2026.Each summer. the selection committee members of the MN Lacrosse Hall of Fame pick the top 20 candidates from all the nominations submitted online by the Minnesota lacrosse community. The mem’s and women’s top player, coach, referee and other award nominees are voting on by the selection committee to determine who is inducted the Hall of Fame.

Unselected Nominees: Nominees that are not selected are kept on the ballot for 5 yrs. After 5 yea they are asked to resubmit their lacrosse resume and are back on the list for another 5 years. After 10 years they are off the list unless they are renominated.

Click the buttons below to be directed to the full description of each award.

Coach Frankey Jackson shared this poem from Gusti Wynds Terkilsdn – an Oglala Lakota Lacrosse from the Lightning Stick Lacrosse Club dated January 21, 2015

Share The Game..

I share with you a poem by a very talented young lady from the Pine Ridge reservation….she is a multi sport high school athlete with awesome lacrosse skills…..
My hands were perfectly molded to my first lacrosse stick. I developed a bond with an inanimate object and an ancient game. I love this sport. I am in love with what it has lead me to be, the people I have met, but what I love most of all ‒ sharing it.
In the sanctuary of the grass field, I feel invincible. My body is able to move freely without any worldly burden. The tranquility is shared with everyone on the field, and the calmness shows no prejudice. I am spiritually connected with every individual soul that is within these boundaries.
Lacrosse has offered me a new lens to see an ancient, forgotten world that is only visible to those who open their hearts to new culture, and divine experiences. Through lacrosse, I have connected with Indigenous people from every corner of the Great Plains, and shared a transcendent experience with each and every one.
Lacrosse is seen as a “Medicine Game”, played to heal the spirit. But it also has the power to bring people together and gives them something to be connected with by their Deities. I have been adopted into a family spread all across the land of North America, and I feel at home as long as I know I can be healed by players who share the same love for the game.
Experiencing this powerful prayer, in the form of lacrosse, has influenced me to bring it to others. My eyes see sadness and destruction every day, and no solace in the games we have for youth today. I believe if I share this sanctuary of sacred entertainment, it can change lives- just as it has mine.

By: Gusti Wynds Terkilsdn – Oglala Lakota Lacrosse Player. This poem is from our Tell Us Your Lacrosse Story section on our website’s “News & Contacts List ” page.