Lacrosse Legends

Carol Patterson is one of the most important women in building international lacrosse and helping to launch Canada’s involvement with the women’s field game. Her lacrosse resume includes a career filled with coaching, officiating and administration. She has coached lacrosse in Baltimore County, New York State, at SUNY Buffalo and Niagara University.As an administrator she served as a Director on the board of the Iroquois Nationals. She was active in the family business Tuskewe Krafts – a wooden lacrosse stick manufacturer - with her husband John Wesley Patterson. Their sticks were distributed worldwide and coveted by female lacrosse players. They set up a Canadian company as well called Canam Lacrosse Ltd. Carol Patterson ran the Niagara Girls Lacrosse Camp as well.Patterson wrote the US Lacrosse PE Curriculum for grades 4-12 in 2006 and was involved in CD Rom and Course development for the Canadian Lacrosse Association.Some of her accolades include induction into the Western New York Lacrosse Hall of Fame,