The Subiaco Lacrosse Club actually dates its beginning back to 1940, when its junior program was begun as the Subiaco TOC-H, a boys club founded by local enthusiast Joe Carden with the dual lofty purposes of growing the sport of lacrosse, already very popular in Victoria and South Australia, as well as offering an outlet for the energies of some of the town's idle youth.

It did not field a division one team until after the Second World War when it joined the Nedlands club and became the Nedlands Subiaco Lacrosse Club as it was known by until the start of nineties when it shortened its name back to just Subiaco.

Subiaco Lacrosse Club located in Rosalie Park Shenton Park, is one of the oldest sporting clubs in Subiaco and an ongoing refuge for more than a few neighbourhood kids.

The power of sport to change people's lives is well documented, but here in Subiaco there exists living proof of it.

At Rosalie Park, within the friendly confines of a modest brick building, more than a number of Subiaco and Shenton Park youths have quietly come of age as players for the Subiaco Lacrosse Club. In the year of 1997 it is also another coming of age of sorts, as the club celebrated a silver anniversary of fifty years of division-one lacrosse competition. And what a fifty years it's been!    In the years since 1947 the club and its members have, unbeknownst to many locals, enjoyed some of the sport's greatest collective and individual successes. Some would say though that the clubs greatest successes lie on the field. All the while providing both a forum for some of the neighbourhood's strongest and most lasting friendships to grow and prosper while also opening up avenues of national and international travel for it's members.

In fact, even though little is known locally about this relatively small group of Subiaco kids made good, considerably more is known about this club nationally and internationally.

After all it would be hard to ignore that, in America for instance, the club has produced the sole Australian of only 3 players total profiled in the main hall of the sport's Hall of Fame there. The club has won over 50 premierships at all levels of men's and women's competition (including 10 of the last 18 West Australian division one men's flags in the late nineties), counts over fifty current and former members of teams wearing the green and gold, members playing for American sides (where crowd totals can run as high 35,000 for this ancient game invented there by the Indians), and most important of all, has guided countless young locals along the difficult road from adolescence to adulthood.

The Subiaco Lacrosse Club has a proud history that will continue to prosper in the future only through the hard work and dedication of all the people associated with this great club.

The Beginnings of Lacrosse