Legal Sticks
For further USL explanations please see Legal Women’s Sticks – Listed by Manufacturer
- Depth of pocket 5/6 and 7/8 The top of a ball, when placed into the pocket of a horizontally held stick, at eye-level, must be visible/seen above the top of the entire sidewall after reasonable force with one hand (simulating receipt of a pass) has been applied to and released from the ball.
- Depth of pocket 3/4The top of a ball, when placed into the pocket of a horizontally held stick, at eye-level, must be visible/seen between the sidewall after reasonable force with one hand (simulating receipt of a pass) has been applied to and released from the ball.
- Pocket Attachments: Attachments to the sidewall must be through designated stringing holes and looped beneath the bottom rail of the sidewall.
- Attachment of Thongs: Thongs must be attached to the head though holes in the scoop and at the ball stop. A second material may be used to allow attachment of each thong to the scoop and the ball stop.
- Shooting strings (this is where most high school sticks have been found to be illegal and is not a fix that can be done at the field)
- Field crosses may have no more than 2 shooting strings. Any shooting string must be directly attached to both sidewalls in the upper 1/3 of the head, OR, if the bottom string is positioned in an inverted “U” shape it must be directly attached to both side walls in the upper 2/3 of the head.
- Shooting strings for field crosses may not be coiled more than twice between 2 adjacent thongs. This does not apply to the space between the outermost thong and the sidewall.
- Shooting strings may touch, but not be crossed, between adjacent thongs, and must neither touch nor be crossed outside of the outermost thongs.
- Flat laces may not be used as shooting strings for a field crosse.
- None of the requirements listed above apply to a goalkeeper’s crosse
