At the end of February, Hong Kong Lacrosse took time out of their busy international schedule to visit the National Schools Lacrosse Championships 2020 in Aldershot.
They were attending the tournament to watch some of the exciting and high quality lacrosse being played by the 3,500 school girls who took part.
Raymond Fong (pictured above), CEO of Hong Kong Lacrosse and China Lacrosse, visited with a small group of representatives from Hong Kong Lacrosse and was impressed with what he saw.
“It’s eye-opening; it's such a big tournament”, Mr Fong said about the National Schools Lacrosse Championships.
“We’re looking to put something similar in place in China because we’ve had some real interest from a few schools back home to do something like this”.
Mr Fong also revealed that, in addition to taking in the National Schools Championships, he was in England to chat with England Lacrosse about the opportunities both National Governing Bodies can give one another in the future.
“There’s lots of discussions to be had”, he remarked.
“We’d love to have a UK-based team enter the Hong Kong Open at some stage and it’d be great to develop the 6-a-side game together as this version of lacrosse gains more interest through the Olympic initiatives”.
“Like I said”, he finished, “there’s lots of discussions to be had but we’ve been impressed by England Lacrosse overall; the hospitality has been overwhelming”.
Raymond Fong and Hong Kong Lacrosse were able to see Wycombe Abbey win the U19A Championship at the National Schools Championships as they defeated Benenden 4-0 in the final.
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