Brine is an American sporting goods company that manufactures lacrosse, soccer, volleyball, and field hockey equipment.
They sold to private schools and regional camps, quickly growing to a major manufacturer of lacrosse and soccer equipment.
With the encouragement and assistance from A. MacDonald Murphy of Governor Dummer Academy, Ferris Thomsen, coach of Penn and Princeton and Mort LaPointe of Bowdoin College, the Brine family began to explore the possibilities of manufacturing lacrosse sticks.
They continued to experiment and eventually found Surlyn, a DuPont plastic, to have the necessary properties to survive the intensity of lacrosse.
Brine then developed a molding technique that was the basic draft shape of the standard in modern sticks.
Also in 2003, Brine acquired In The Crease, a lacrosse goal and accessories company based in Penn Yan, New York and in 2004 it began making athletic footwear.