PLA High School Boys' Lacrosse

Eastern Pennsylvania Scholastic Lacrosse Association

The Eastern Pennsylvania Scholastic Lacrosse Association (EPSLA), formerly known as the Pennsylvania Scholastic Lacrosse Association, is the governing body for boys lacrosse in the PLA Chapter area. The EPSLA includes public, private and parochial school teams, which reflects the history of the growth of the game at the high school level in Pennsylvania.

The EPSLA changed it name to reflect the reality of the formation of the Central Pennsylvania Chapter of US Lacrosse in 2003, a region formerly in the PLA Chapter area. The growth of the high school game in Central Pennsylvania in part reflects the effort of the PLA and PSLA to provide financial assistance through the PLA New Start program, and otherwise to promote both youth and high school lacrosse in the Harrisburg, York and Lancaster areas. Those areas have dozens of teams, which are now competing with the strongest teams in the eastern part of the state (visit the Central PA high school lacrosse web site, go to the "Lacrosse Links" section and look under Boys High School Lacrosse). The EPSLA, Central Penn and Western Pennsylvania champions play every year, usually the first week in June, for the Keystone Cup, which is awarded to the best boys' high school in the Commonwealth.

The Penn Valley League is one of the newest leagues in the EPSLA, and reflects the growth of the lacrosse at the high school level in the Pioneer Athletic Conference and in Bucks, Lehigh and other counties north of Philadelphia.