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History is being made in women's professional sports. The first ever professional women's lacrosse league is in the middle of its inaugural season, and Boston has its very own team, "The Boston Storm."Watch reportKirstin Igoe plays midfield. "It's so fast, so fun, it's the best lacrosse that I've ever seen." That, coming from a woman who played at Boston College and on Team USA.Lacrosse has been her life for a long time, even running a club team with friend and fellow Boston Storm player, Tanner Guarnio.Guarino says before the United Women's Lacrosse League or UWLX, once you played in college, there wasn't much else to do. "There was the USA team, and other than that, there's little summer leagues, coaching you can do, but not very many opportunities to play."The vision of the UWLX is to create opportunities for women by women. Bowen Holden, general manager for the Boston Storm says, "We look to the professional women's soccer, the WNBA, because they've been able to sustain themselves and be successful, yeah that's where we want to get."She adds the increased popularity of lacrosse makes it an ideal sport to support the venture, saying, "it's been growing rapidly across the country."This first season, there are four teams, and Igoe expects that number to rise. "Boston, Baltimore, Philly and Long Island, which are kind of like the known hot beds, but I think a lot of people are gonna want to play and I think that's why it's gonna expand."Holden also coaches the lacrosse team at Lincoln Sudbury High School. Her players there are excited about their new professional role models. Hannah Chen plays defense, and she says, "It's one thing to have a college team to look up to, but now we have a pro team to be able to see and look up to.""The level of play is just amazing," adds low attacker Courtney Quirk, "it's really cool to watch."To entice fans, rules have changed to pick up the pace of the game. The slogan, "the fastest game on two feet just got faster" is catching on."We want people in the stands, we want people buying their tickets," says Holden. "Just like the sport itself has grown from the east coast across, it would be great to see the same thing happen with the league as well."The Boston Storm plays their last home game of the season this Friday July 8th at 7 p.m. at Lincoln Sudbury High School. There's also a clinic for all ages before the game.For more information, click here.