25 Strong

This year the 2011 Women’s Lacrosse Team consists of 25 loud, fun, hard working, “ready for anything” girls. We are a very young team with 11 freshmen, 7 sophomores, 2 juniors and 5 seniors. We began our preseason on February 1^st with a ready to do our best attitude. Upperclassmen, though a small group, were ready to take everything that they had learned from the past 2 and 3 years and pass it down to our freshman and sophomores, who we knew needed to step up to the plate. We worked hard all through preseason and by the beginning of March we were ready to play against some new numbers other than our own. 

Freshman

This is by far the biggest class that I have seen make the cut for the lacrosse team. They are a CLOSE knit group of girls who came into the program with open minds and fresh new attitude that I think we all needed. To be honest, they are a little bit of a cult (in a good way). Each girl rooms with another freshman, except for one. They have an all for one, one for all attitudes that has helped them to stick together through our season. They are loud and fun which are two essential points in order to fit in with this team. Every one of the girls I believe has stepped up to roles which freshman, in the past, have

never had to step up to. Their willingness to listen and learn will allow them to be great leaders as they get older.

Sophomores

This class consists of 7 girls whose positions range all over the field. They go from goalie to center and low offense to low defense. Though the curse of the sophomore slump is always looming with collegiate sports, these girls, in my opinion, have proven that wrong. They are a group that never gives up and will put their best efforts forward for the best of the team. Yet again, these girls contain the elements that allow them to perfectly fit into our team. They are a smart group of girls, who definitely also help the team off the field and have the smarts for on the field.

Juniors

Our smallest class on the team, yet they are extremely solid and dependable. They play at a defensive position and a center/midi position. These two are some of our best communicators and have been put into the position of almost seniors because of the small number of upperclassmen. A lot of pressure has been put on them because of their small class, yet they have continually answered the call and done a phenomenal job.

Seniors

I think this is by far my favorite class…yet I can say that I am a little biased. The five of us have stuck together through everything, including losing a few members of our class. We live together, which one would think could be a potential disaster, but it makes us even closer off the field and translates on the field. I think that the five seniors do a great job of leading the team, even though there are an abundant amount of underclassmen. I could not have asked a better group of girls to go out with this season!