Most Pass Attempts in a Game: Is There a Lacrosse Record?

The public NCAA Division I, PLL and NLL sources below do not establish an all-time record for most pass attempts in a lacrosse game. The NCAA record books do not list that category, while the professional statistics shown measure other aspects of passing and ball possession.

That is a limit of these published sources, not evidence that nobody has counted passes in an individual game.

What the published statistics actually measure

A pass-attempt total would count attempts to send the ball to a teammate, including unsuccessful ones under a stated scoring definition. It must distinguish an individual’s attempts from a team’s total.

These public sources, checked on October 25, 2026, answer different questions:

Competition	Relevant published statistics	Why they do not establish a pass-attempts record
NCAA Division I men’s and women’s field lacrosse	Single-game goals, assists, points and other field-play records	Neither record book lists pass attempts.
PLL field lacrosse	Touches and pass rate in Advanced Stats Labs	Pass rate measures completed passes divided by touches, not all attempts.
NLL box lacrosse	Assists, points, turnovers and other player totals	The public player-statistics table has no pass-attempts column.

Sources: NCAA men’s record book, NCAA women’s record book, PLL metric definitions, NLL player statistics.

PLL pass rate is not pass-completion percentage

The PLL defines total touches as the number of times a player touched the ball. Its pass rate is the percentage of those touches that resulted in a completed pass. (PLL Advanced Stats Labs)

For a hypothetical player with 100 touches and 80 completed passes, PLL pass rate would be 80%. That does not mean the player completed 80% of attempted passes: the denominator is touches, not attempts. Nor does it reveal the number of unsuccessful passes.

Assists are not a substitute for attempts

An assist measures a contribution to a goal, not routine ball movement. Both NCAA statistical manuals say an assist is not automatically awarded merely because a player passed before a goal; the pass must contribute directly to the score in the statistician’s judgment. (Men’s manual, women’s manual)

A player can complete many passes without earning an assist. If your question is about the most goal-producing feeds in one game, use the separately labeled most assists in a lacrosse game records.

What a credible passing record would need

A proposed mark should identify the player or team, opponent, date, competition and format. It should also state whether overtime is included and explain how deflections, dropped catches and passes recovered by the passing team are counted.

Most importantly, it needs comparable game-level coverage. A complete, consistently coded video count can document a total for one game; calling it an all-time record requires a sufficiently complete comparison set. Otherwise, label it the highest total in the stated dataset. Keep a team’s box-lacrosse total, an individual’s college field total and a PLL completed-pass figure in separate categories.