Lacrosse Sticks & Stick Parts

Lacrosse heads, mesh, stringing kits, and stick hardware for building and maintaining your stick. Everything you need to customize pocket feel, adjust performance, and keep your setup game-ready.

A lacrosse stick is two components: a head and a shaft. The head holds the pocket - the strung mesh that cradles, passes, and shoots the ball. The shaft is the handle. They're sold and replaced separately, which means you can upgrade just your head, restring your existing setup, or replace hardware without buying a whole new stick.

The head is the most position- and gender-specific part of the setup.

  • Attack heads are narrow with stiff sidewalls built for accuracy and ball security under defensive pressure.
  • Defensive heads are wider and more durable, designed for ground balls, stick checks, and clearing.
  • Goalie heads are a different category entirely - oversized to maximize save coverage.

Women's heads normally have a narrower face and different throat geometry than men's.

Mesh and stringing kits follow the same gender-specific logic.

Men's mesh is designed for the deeper pocket the men's rulebook permits.

Women's mesh produces the shallower, legal women's pocket.

The two are not interchangeable - men's mesh in a women's head produces an illegal pocket, and women's mesh in a men's head performs poorly.

Stick hardware - end caps and shaft locks - are universal across both games and fit standard 1-inch shafts.

Lacrosse Sticks & Stick Parts FAQs

Yes, and it's one of the most common upgrades in lacrosse. Heads and shafts connect via a standard pin system, so any head fits any shaft as long as both use the standard 1-inch diameter, which covers the vast majority of men's field player equipment. Goalie shafts use the same diameter. The main exception to watch for is very old or non-standard equipment. When buying a head alone, check that it comes unstrung if you plan to string it yourself, or pre-strung if you want it game-ready out of the box.

It's a feel and weather preference more than a performance hierarchy. Semi-hard mesh holds its shape more consistently across temperatures and requires less break-in time - it's the more predictable choice for players who want their pocket to play the same way in cold weather as it does in warm. Semi-soft mesh offers a softer feel and more natural give, which some players prefer for cradling and catching, but it can tighten up in cold or wet conditions and may require more maintenance to keep the pocket where you want it. Most experienced players develop a clear preference; newer players are usually fine starting with either.

Three things to look for: the pocket has shifted so the ball doesn't sit where it should, throwing has become inconsistent without any change in your mechanics, or the mesh has visibly stretched, frayed, or hardened to the point where it's lost its feel. Mesh breaks down gradually, so the change is easy to miss until you pick up a freshly strung stick and feel the difference. Most active players restring once or twice a season. Keeping spare mesh and a string kit on hand means you can fix it yourself rather than being without your stick mid-season.

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