Saskatchewan Rush

The Saskatchewan Rush are a Canadian professional box lacrosse team based in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, that competes in the National Lacrosse League. They play home games at SaskTel Centre, which since a 2017 sponsorship deal with Saskatoon Co-op is called Co-op Field at SaskTel Centre during Rush games. The franchise began in the late 1990s in New York as the Syracuse Smash, became the Ottawa Rebel for the 2001 season, went inactive after 2003, and in 2005 was bought by Bruce Urban and moved to Alberta as the Edmonton Rush. After winning the league title in 2015, its last season in Edmonton, it relocated to Saskatoon for 2016, bringing the city its first professional sports team in decades, and won the championship again that year over the Buffalo Bandits and in 2018 over the Rochester Knighthawks. Derek Keenan, who became coach and manager in 2010, left coaching as the league's all-time leader in coaching wins with 155. In May 2021 the team was bought by Mike and Colin Priestner, and it missed the playoffs in 2022 and 2023. In September 2023 the club launched a new logo featuring a bison head.