Durham College's lacrosse sixes team wrapped up its inaugural season with a silver medal, finishing second in the Ontario Colleges Athletic Association's pilot season, The Chronicle reports.
The 16-player co-ed team went 5-1 in the regular season, won its semifinal, and lost the provincial championship game to the Mohawk Mountaineers at Mohawk College at the end of October.
Durham College was one of four teams in the exhibition season, along with Humber Polytechnic, Mohawk College and Fleming College. The four colleges hope lacrosse sixes becomes a permanent varsity sport in the OCAA.
The team was created in response to demand from students, according to Scott Dennis, Durham College's director of Athletics and Recreation. "Lacrosse is a very popular sport around this region," Dennis told The Chronicle. "We've always been asked 'hey, do you have a lacrosse team?' so we saw it as an opportunity to introduce a new sport that was in demand."
Head coach Kyle Curtis is a Whitby native who has coached with the Whitby Minor Lacrosse Association, Edge Lacrosse and Team Ontario, as well as the Oshawa Blue Knights. The team shared Vaso's Field with the soccer team in its first season, and lacrosse sixes is played on a 70-by-36-metre surface with six players per side.
Students interested in the lacrosse sixes can find more information at durhamlords.ca.
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- Daily Durham News
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- Nov 13, 2026, 1:16 p.m.
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- chronicle.durhamcollege.ca
