Ken Vilar Memorial Jamboree
Presented by The Southington Lacrosse Association
REGISTRATION NOW OPEN!
Saturday, May 16th, 2026
(Rain date: Sunday, May 17th, 2026)
Open to all Boys and Girls U8, U10, U12, and U14 Teams
SLA is proud to announce that we will again be using Tourney Machine for the Ken Vilar Memorial Jamboree.
Email us with any questions.
Certificate of Insurance Requirement
All participating programs are required to provide a valid Certificate of Insurance (COI) prior to the event. The certificate must reflect the following under the Certificate Holder:
Town of Southington
75 Main Street
Southington, CT 06489
COI can be emailed to southingtonlacrosseassociation@gmail.com. Programs that fail to provide a valid COI in advance may not be permitted to participate in the event.
History
The Southington Lacrosse Association (SLA) renamed their annual lacrosse jamboree the Ken Vilar Memorial Jamboree. The name change is to honor Ken Vilar, one of the co-founders of the SLA in 1989, as well as the organizing force to start the varsity lacrosse program at Southington High School back in 1992. Ken unexpectedly passed away in May of 2012.
Ken and the SLA held their initial jamboree back in the Spring of 1989 when the association first got underway. That jamboree had only 5 teams, one of them coming all the way from Canada to compete. Over the next few years, the jamboree continued to grow and peaked at close to 100 teams and two locations during his tenure. Ken’s love of the game and passion for teaching the sport kept him involved with SLA over the years, and he even got to coach his grandson before he passed.