The Moreland Lacrosse Club was established in 1990 by Clive and Kristina Sheppard at Flemming Park when their son and his friends were at an age to begin their playing careers. The club began as Alphington Lacrosse Club and fielded one under 11's team which included current players Nathen Cameron, Rhian Barr and Jake Sheppard. The clubs first home ground was Flemming Park in Brunswick.

Over the years the club has recruited enough players to field more teams and currently has one under 12s, one under 14s, one under 16s, two under 18s and two seniors teams playing in divisions one and three. The growth is an exceptional effort for the small amount of time the club has been running. As the club expanded they also aquired Brearly Reserve in Coburg.

Some of the clubs players have acheived highly in their sport including Rhian Barr who made the under 19s Australian team in 2003. In 2002 Jake Sheppard, Tom Hillbrich and Jack Hoffman played in the Victoria senior team at the National tournament. Symon Lovett has played in the under 17 and under 19 Victorian teams in 2004 and 2005 respectively. In 2004 Jake Sheppard played in the Australian under 21 team. Clive Sheppard has coached two under 19 Australian teams.

2007 saw Moreland Lacrosse Clubs most successful season with the Under 16s winning the division 2 grand final. In the Seniors divison one and three both teams were runners up in their respective grand finals.

The colourful jerseys of Clifton Park's Lacrosse Club aren't the only thing colourful about the site.

Clifton Park as known today came to be, officially in August 2004, after a four year $1.4 million dollar redevelopment. Moreland City Council wanted to establish Clifton Park as 'Moreland's premier festival venue'. The centre of the redevelopment was the Arts Pavilion on the east side of the park, dedicated the Ingham Amphitheatre, in remembrance to Cr Andy Ingham who worked to start the Clifton Park redevelopment and to raise awareness of indigenous rights. Another pivotal feature of the park, the small red brick wall, is a link to the sites past and is known as the serpent wall.

Prior to being Clifton Park the site between Victoria and Albert Streets was the Hoffman Brickworks, with the Clifton Park site a quarry known as number 1 pit. The Brickworks was established in "1862" (1). The quarry at the Clifton Park site began 'in 1947, to be filled in, taking 17 years to fill completely, it then took a further 17 years to settle'(3). After this time (1981) the site became the M.W. Clifton Reserve.

The history of lacrosse at its beginning is basically unknown, as documentation of the sport only began during European settlement in Canada and the United States. What is known is the sport was being played by native North American Indians and was linked to the ceremonial rituals of war. The game was sometimes used to settle territorial disputes or in preparation for war with games lasting for days. Lacrosse was distinguished from other sports by the "use of a netted racquet used to pick the ball up"(2), and the cardinal rule of no hands.

The sport was first recorded in 1636 when "Jean de Brebeuf, a Jesuit missionary, documented a Huron contest in what is now southwest Ontario, Canada"(5). The term lacrosse is French and basically refers to the 'stick of the game', which is sometimes believed to represent a bishops Crosse. Before this time the sport was named differently by different tribes including: dehuntshigwa'es in Onondaga ("men hit a rounded object"), da-nah-wah'uwsdi in Eastern Cherokee ("little war"), tewaarathon in Mohawk language ("little brother of war"), baaga'adowe in Ojibwe ("knocking about of balls") and baggatway in Alqonquin"(4).

Sticks were made of curved wood and balls from deer skin, clay, skulls or rocks, goals were often trees, rocks or single posts.

In "1868 Canadian dentist W. George Beers standardised the game with set field dimensions, limited players and other basic rules"(4), he also established the first lacrosse club, the Montreal Lacrosse Club in 1856. In the 1930's an indoor version of lacrosse, box lacrosse was introduced in Canada and remains the countries number sport. Lacrosse is also the fastest "growing team sport in the USA, with youth membership tripling since 1999"(5), while in 2004 is was named "Maryland's official team sport". At a college level there are "57 NCAA (national collegiate athletics association) teams in division one, 32 teams in division 2 and 131 teams in division 3"(5).

Although lacrosse's highest level of competition today is the World Championships, in 1904 and 1908 is was contested as a full medal sport in the Olympics and appeared as demonstrated sport in the 1928, 1932 and 1948 Olympics.

Today the International Lacrosse Federation has 12 national members including: Australia, Canada, Czech Republic, England, Germany, Iroquois Nationals, Japan, Korea, Scotland, Sweden, USA and Wales. There are also 21 official developing lacrosse nations.