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United Women's Lacrosse League

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The United Women's Lacrosse League gives the world's best female lacrosse players the opportunity to stay in the game and play post-collegiate, professional lacrosse. Lacrosse is the fastest-growing youth and high school sport in America with a high potential for continued growth and increased interest around the world, including as the next Olympic sport. The first draft and professional women's lacrosse season was held in summer 2016.The United Women's Lacrosse League is the first professional women's sports league launched by United Women's Sports, LLC in strategic partnership with the Play It Forward Sport Foundation. United Women's Sports is a female-owned and female-operated company whose mission is to establish and govern operations of professional leagues and create opportunities for women to work in professional sports for a variety of women's sports. The Play It Forward Sport Foundation, is a non-profit 501(c)(3) organization focused on providing opportunities for female athletes to increase their earning potential 'off the field'​. PIFS will compensate female athletes for work in the community using their skills to educate, mentor and train participants on any number of initiatives. It will partner with corporations and other organizations to create opportunities for the athletes to put the skills they've learned as elite athletes to better the community. In creating this strategic partnership, it was the vision of the founders, Digit Murphy and Aronda Kirby to create a contemporary model that represents a real paradigm shift in women's professional sports and provides a solution to keep the most talented players in the game... because they can earn a reasonable salary. If the most talented players stay in the game then the best sport product will be presented to the fans! Together, the two organizations create and enhance opportunities for women as professional athletes, as managers, as executives and as leaders in the sports industry.