The Calgary Mountaineers are a

box lacrosse Box lacrosse, also known as boxla, box, or indoor lacrosse, is an indoor version of lacrosse played mostly in North America. The game originated in Canada in the 1930s, where it is more popular than field lacrosse. Lacrosse is Canada's official ...

organization based out of

Calgary Calgary ( ) is the largest city in the western Canadian province of Alberta and the largest metro area of the three Prairie Provinces. As of 2021, the city proper had a population of 1,306,784 and a metropolitan population of 1,481,806, makin ...

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, Canada. The organization represents teams at three levels of the

Rocky Mountain Lacrosse League The Rocky Mountain Lacrosse League (RMLL) is a box lacrosse league based in Alberta with three teams in Saskatchewan and, as of 2018, one in Manitoba. It is sanctioned by the Alberta Lacrosse Association. RMLL organizes all senior and junior play ...

: a Senior B squad, along with a Junior A team and a Junior B team.

History

The Junior B Mountaineers were created in the late 1990s, and have won the Alberta Provincial Championship in 2000, 2004, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012 and 201

In the 2009 season, the Mounties finished the regular season first overall in Alberta with a nearly unfettered record of 19–

On August 22, 2009, the Junior B Mountaineers doing what only two non-Ontarian teams have done before upset the

OLA Junior B Lacrosse League The Ontario Junior B Lacrosse League (OJBLL) is a box lacrosse league sanctioned by the Ontario Lacrosse Association in Canada. The league features twenty-five teams in Ontario, one in Quebec, and one in the Akwesasne (which straddles the two af ...

Clarington Green Gaels The Green Gaels are a Junior "B" box lacrosse team based in Clarington, Ontario, Canada, that plays out of the Garnet B. Rickard Recreation Complex in Bowmanville, Ontario, Canada. The Gaels play in the OLA Junior B Lacrosse League. History The ...

8–4 to win

's first

Founders Cup The Founders' Cup is the championship trophy of Canada's Junior "B" lacrosse leagues. The custodial duties of this trophy fall upon the Canadian Lacrosse Association. The national champions are determined through a round robin format with a play ...

since 1999

finishing the season with an overall record of 29–3.

Founders Cup

CANADIAN NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIPS

External links

A closer look at the 2009 Founders Cup champion Calgary Mountaineers
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