The recognized national parent organization in America for polocrosse is the American Polocrosse Association (www.americanpolocrosse.org).  The APA is committed to supporting Polocrosse in the USA and in the USPC and is available to help all Pony Clubs who need more information on: clinics and instruction, where to find equipment, playing opportunities and other information regarding the sport.  Local APA Polocrosse Clubs are listed on the APA website for easy contact.  During the winter months, local Polocrosse clubs will be contacting their local Pony Clubs to offer information on how to get started and how to improve your skills and your game if you have already started.  There is also a list of suggested clinicians found on the APA website as well.  Go to the APA's website to find contacts to help you get started.  There will also be a booth at the USPC Annual Meeting in January with plenty of information to get your club started.

Polocrosse is the fastest growing horse sport in the country and the American Polocrosse Association has opportunities to play Polocrosse all over the world.

Each summer there is an exchange program between countries. The Adult Teams for the USA competed in Australia in The World Cup! The Under 21 team competed in Ireland, and the Under 16 team competed in the United States and hosted the Australian Under 16 team. Each team consists of 8 players who have the opportunity to practice and compete with each other throughout the year. Out of the 24 players who represented the USA internationally this year, 14 players are current pony clubbers or graduated alumni. Go Pony Club & Go Polocrosse!

The Under 16 Development team made history by playing Polocrosse for the first time On The Mall, in DC. Not the mall you go shopping in, but The Mall, the grassy historical strip that runs through the heart of D.C. Within the team, there were three current pony clubbers: Sara Cifelli from New Jersey, Caroline Gardiner from Maryland and Andrew Diemer from North Carolina, along with their two managers, Adriane Gill and Lauren Ellis both graduate C3 pony clubbers from Pennsylvania. This is what Adriane and Lauren had to say about their experience:

Lauren Writes:
This summer I spent three weeks helping to manage 18 horses for the Youth Development Under 16 Team. During those three weeks I was put into situations
with some of the horses that I would never have known how to handle without the knowledge I gained from being in Pony Club all these years. It was so much fun to be able to take care of and get to know some amazing Polocrosse horses in America... and the kids were pretty awesome too!

Adriane Writes:
This summer I volunteered to be one of the two Horse Managers for the Under-16 Youth Development Team for the American Polocrosse Association. Lauren Ellis and I had to make sure that all 18 horses were being taken care of for the 3 weeks that the team toured the East Coast. This included feeding, watering, cleaning their pens, checking their legs, making sure that they didn't develop any sores from tack, cooling them down after practices and chukkas, and making sure that they went back to their owners in the same condition as when the owners left them in our care. This job required a lot of organization, knowledge, and hard work. Being a C-3 graduate from Pony Club, I feel that it made my job this past summer a lot easier than it would have been without my Pony Club knowledge and experience. The organization that Pony Club taught me helped me make sure that all of the horses tack was labeled and that each rider knew where to find the tack and to which horse it belonged to. The knowledge that I learned in the 10 years that I was in Pony Club helped me to be able to take care of the horses better. Poulticing and wrapping stable bandages needed to be done on all 18 horses after they played each weekend. It was nice to hear that a non-Pony Clubber who competed on the team now poultices and wraps his horse after his chukkas. It feels good to know that he is taking better care of his horse now than before because of the things that he learned from Lauren and me during those 3 weeks. Lauren and I also modified the Stable Card that Pony Club uses so that we could identify each horse, know any of their vices, their age, their owner's information, and also the type and amount of feed that they required while in our care. Even though there were two of us, taking care of 18 horses for 3 weeks, 24-7, was hard work. I definitely feel that it would have been a lot harder without the experience that I gained from Pony Club.