By Kathleen Kellerman
Mount Saint Mary’s Women’s Lacrosse team is newly developed and has just begun training for its first spring season. Try-out’s during the fall consisted of girls from freshman year to senior year experienced and non experienced picking up their lacrosse sticks, borrowed or owned and formed a team. Coach Rachel Simone, put out forth a lot of effort in teaching the girls who had never played basic skills to get them on track with those who have been playing for years. Lacrosse dinners and a habitat for humanity project brought the team of 18-22 year old girls together.
A later addition to the team was Assistant Coach Jesse Nunn, a recent Brown University graduate who had played on their women’s lacrosse team. Jesse who’s 23 brought years of experience to the field as she helped those still struggling to catch up with the other players. Practices during the fall were consistent, and focused mainly on getting the team back in shape, and beginning to learn the rules of the D3 College Lacrosse League. Originally the newly developed team was only supposed to be a Club sport, but quickly changed to D3. At the end of the fall, the team played in a tournament in support for the Autism Organization called the Great Pumpkin Smash at Marywood University. A few other women’s lacrosse teams from other colleges and universities competed and for the first tournament Mount Saint Mary competed in, the team had a 2-2 record. In order to determine which girls could join the Coach Rachel and Jesse on this tournament since they’re were too many girls, they identified who were the most improved and dedicated players.
4 comments:
(Tyler)
- Great article! Being a lacrosse player myself, I am glad that MSMC has finally added the sport into D3 rather than club! Great backround history on coaches and other personal responisible for the success of the new team.
- Maybe interviews would have helped a bit. Get peoples views on the team.
(Anne)
-I liked that you told your readers about the project for Habitat for Humanity and participating in a tournament that benefited an Autism organization. Great details and background information about the coaches and how the girls were chosen for the team.
-I also agree with Tyler, a quote from the head coach, and her take on the program might be interesting.
(Sam)
-I think you had really great background information and detail about the formation of the lacrosse team. I think it's great that MSMC changed it from a club to a D3 sport, and I think it will be very successful.
-I also think a quotation from either a player or coach would have been good for this article.
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