World Lacrosse name trophy after Sue Redfern
World Lacrosse renamed its Women’s World Championship trophy after former World Lacrosse President and England Lacrosse Chair Sue Redfern ahead of the 2026 competition that started last week in Tokyo, Japan.
Redfern has dedicated her entire life to the sport of lacrosse after beginning as a goalkeeper for Birmingham Ladies back in 1969.
Following a 17-year playing career, Redfern moved into the governance and administration side of the game, assisting in the organisation of the annual National Schools Lacrosse Championships for 20 years and becoming the director of the 2001 Women’s World Cup in High Wycombe.
Since then, Redfern has held numerous national and international lacrosse leadership roles, including chair of England Lacrosse and one of its previous incarnations the All-England Women’s Lacrosse Association.
From 2001 to 2008, Redfern served as vice-president of the International Federation of Women’s Lacrosse Association and helped with its transition to the Federation of International Lacrosse, now World Lacrosse.
For six years between 2011 and 2017, she was an official representative from England to the International Federation before being elected as the World Lacrosse President on a four-year term from 2019.
There really isn’t much in the lacrosse world that Redfern hasn’t touched and she can now add the naming of the World Lacrosse Women’s Championship trophy to her list of honours that also include the FIL Lifetime Achiever Award, FIL Development Award, Torch Trophy Trust Award for service to lacrosse, IFWLA Honorary Life Member award, the ELA Development Award, the ELA Award for Services to International Lacrosse, and the AEWLA Honorary Life Member Award.
In a post on their Instagram channel, World Lacrosse said:
“World Lacrosse is proud to reveal the Sue Redfern Trophy 🏆
“A perpetual monument to the winners of the World Lacrosse Women’s Championship that will forever bear the history, prestige, and name of one of our sport’s greatest trailblazers.”