Coquitlam Adanacs

The Coquitlam Adanacs are a Canadian box lacrosse team based in Coquitlam, British Columbia. The Adanacs play in B.C.'s seven team Western Lacrosse Association (WLA), whose champion competes against Ontario's Major Series Lacrosse champion for the Mann Cup every September.

The Adanacs originally started as a basketball team during the 1920s in New Westminster. The team expanded to lacrosse and played as the Adanacs until 1951. In 1965, a new Coquitlam Adanacs lacrosse team was formed by old Adanac players, and won the Mann Cup in 2001. Between 1998 and 2003, Coquitlam and Victoria played against each other in six straight WLA championships. The Shamrocks would come out on top of that rivalry, winning four titles to the Adanacs two, and both teams would win national championships in that era, Victoria's in 1999 and 2003.

For a single season in 1968, the Adanacs moved to Portland, Oregon as an experiment to try and stoke interest in box lacrosse in the American Pacific Northwest. When the National Lacrosse Association collapsed prior to the 1969 season, and efforts to relocate the Adanacs to Seattle failed, they returned to their traditional home in Coquitlam.

The Adanacs play their home games at the Poirier Sport & Leisure Complex.

The Adanacs hold the unique distinction of winning the "Nations in 1980" the first world championship of indoor (box in Canada) lacrosse by defeating the North American Natives, composed of First Nations players, in a nationally televised game from Vancouver's Pacific Coliseum on July 17, 1980. This event was also unique in that the North American Natives were the first to team to ever represent First Nations people in a world championship in any sport.

The Adanacs Junior 'a' team has won the Minto Cup, the national junior 'a' championship, 5 times, including the two most recent titles, in 2024 and 2025.

• The name "ADANAC" is simply "CANADA" spelled backwards.
• The team played the 1968 season in Portland, Oregon, but returned the following season.

• Coquitlam Adanacs homepage
• Western Lacrosse Association