The Kahnawake Hunters are a Junior "B"

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 ...

team from Kahnawake, Quebec, Canada. The Hunters play in the

Ontario 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 ...

and are eligible for the Founders Cup National Championship. The Hunters are the only Quebec team in the OJBLL.

History

The Hunters were proposed by Kahnawake Minor Lacrosse in 2007 as local players had nowhere to play after graduating the minor levels. In 2008, the team operated as an intermediate squad before applying as a Junior B team for the 2009 season. The Kahnawake Hunters made their debut in 2009 in the

. The Hunters expansion marked the first time a Kahnawake team competed in Junior B in almost a decade. In their first season, the Hunters finished with a record of 3 wins, 15 losses, and 2 ties.

Season-by-season results

''Note: GP = Games played, W = Wins, L = Losses, T = Ties, Pts = Points, GF = Goals for, GA = Goals against''

Alumni

* Stone Jacobs (2016-17) - University of Vermont '23 * Koleton Marquis (2018-22) - committed to Johns Hopkins University * Teioshontathe McComber (2014-19) - Victoria Shamrocks (BCJALL); University of Albany '22 * Brine Rice (2014-16) - 51st pick of the 2016 NLL Draft

References

External links

Kahnawake Hunters websiteOJBLL website
{{OLA-B Ontario Lacrosse Association teams Lacrosse of the Iroquois Confederacy 2009 establishments in Quebec Lacrosse clubs established in 2009