page_title: Goaltender (box lacrosse)
section_title: Uppers and pants
hierarchical_section_title: Goaltender (box lacrosse) / Equipment / Uppers and pants
caption_attribution_description: English: Cooper Cecile, Windsor Warlocks practice 2009.
context_page_description: The goaltender or goalie is a playing position in indoor or box lacrosse. More heavily armoured than a field lacrosse goaltender, since the invent of indoor lacrosse in 1931, the box lacrosse goalie has evolved into a much different position than its field lacrosse cousin.
context_section_description: Up until about 2005, the distribution and price of lacrosse style upper pads were extremely inhibitive.  Until then, goaltenders generally engaged in "building up".  Building up was a common practice, a goalie would buy a set of hockey uppers and add to them.  Hockey uppers generally do not have enough padding to protect from downward shots or from up-bounces from bounce shots, so materials and other pieces of equipment were often added to protect from these, including: Football lineman shoulder pads, hockey shoulder pads, kidney guards, baseball belly guards, sectioned PVC piping (also used in old lacrosse slash guards), and thick cuts of foam.  These augmentations were added not only to increase the upper body size of the goalie, but to increase their safety, comfort, but had to still maintain mobility.
  Since about 2005, the Canadian Lacrosse Association has mandated one-piece unmodified chest protectors for all of its goalies.  Because of the price, the team or the minor lacrosse organization often flips the bill for this costly piece of equipment.  A legal upper should only stand out from the shoulders at any point by three inches and four inches on the arms.
  For pants, the box goalie generally wears hockey goalie pants or a specially modified version of hockey pants with airflow in mind.
caption: Goaltender practicing, showing off modern box uppers.
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