Stony Brook University will be taking on Team Scotland this Saturday, October 19th at 7:00pm as a part of the lacrosse fall ball series. This will be Scotland’s second visit to the United States in the past three years, who will take on several other universities in a series of friendly matches. Stony Brook is a talented team who finished in the middle of their conference last season, while Scotland…
Team England is about to invade US lacrosse with a series of fall ball games in the North East. The series will open Saturday October 19th against Dartmouth University. From there, Team England will take on the likes of UMass, Harvard, Boston University, Brown, with a closing match against Bryant University on October 26th. The game against Dartmouth this weekend will be played in Manchester, New Hampshire. They travel to…
The 2013 All-American Women’s Lacrosse team consisted of seven New England area players. Among those are Mikaela Rix (Midfielder, Boston College), Covie Stanwick (Attack, Boston College), and Lauren Kahn (Midfielder, UConn). Rix and Stanwick are both entering their junior year at BC, having finished off last year’s season starting all 20 of their games. Stanwick notched a single-season goals scored record with 65 shots that made it to the back…
Sunday, October 6th marked this year’s Play for Parkinson’s lacrosse event. On the women’s side, standout squads like Duke, Maryland, Penn State, JMU, and Georgetown all participated in this great event for a cause. For those that don’t know, PFP is an event that consists of the top NCAA teams from around the country to help raise money and awareness for the ProjectSpark Foundation, established by former Princeton lax player…
UMass-Lowell has started their new women’s lacrosse program by hiring Carissa Medeiros as the new head coach. Being that it is UMass first year in Division I, Medeiros coaching background (she spent the past six years at Bentley) should help the team really get off their feet in what is a very tough division. While this program is not set to begin until 2015, this early hire shows the preparedness…
The beginning of Women’s fall ball is just days away, with Liberty taking on Virginia Tech on the other day. With the Tech ranked at #34, and Liberty miles behind at #85, it was an interesting pre season matchup. Another game that also took place was Penn State vs Alumnae on September 28th. Alumnae games are nothing short of a great time, and with the current State College squad ranking…
After the Terriers held their first team practice on September 12th, we were finally given the opportunity to see this year’s recruiting class in action. Highlighting this group are several All-Americans, including Jake Dansey, Sam Talkow, and Tyler Zickel. With Zickel’s leadership skills, Dansey’s impressive resume on defense, and Talkow’s experience at the attack position, these three could be a force to be reckoned with. This young group may not…
Last Friday night our Phil Shore spoke with Joe Spallina of the Lizards and Wade Leaphart of the Hounds and the trade sending Stephen Berger to New York. It’s a bit lengthy, but we have the full transcript below. (I)We’re talking about this trade with the Hounds that bring back Steven Berger to New York. The Lizards had just traded Steven Berger last season. How did the opportunity to reacquire…
Every week we will bring you an interview transcript from around the Lacrosse Radio Network. Today we have Denver Outlaws head coach Jim Stagnitta on LaxWorm Radio from last week. (I)What does verbally committing mean? If I’m a freshman and I’m verbally committing to Princeton, what does that mean? (J) Unfortunately that’s probably not the right one to use because they’re not going to take a commitment from a freshman….