Lewis “Louie” Mitchell

NAME: Lewis “Louie” Mitchell
INDUCTED: 2019
TEAM: Akwesasne
POSITION: Player

– Started with the Akwesasne Junior Lacrosse Team at age 17; one of the youngest players on the team, was voted as the team captain, a title which he held for all four years of his junior lacrosse career.
– Played with the Akwesasne Warriors winning the President Cup Championship in his first year.
– Played for the Iroquois National team at the first World Box Lacrosse Championship held in Vancouver in 1980.
– Won a number of national championships with the Akwesasne Masters Lacrosse team.
– Lewis became a wooden (hickory) lacrosse stick maker keeping that craft from becoming extinct.

Ontario Lacrosse Hall of Fame & Museum

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