[ATrain]

The Women's Lacrosse team will compete in the National Lacrosse Conference with Longwood, Howard, Presbyterian, Detroit-Mercy, and Jacksonville next season. High Point will join in 2010.

[Fumblerooskies]

Location of home field? Near the tennis courts?

[Cider Jim]

We have tennis courts?

[Fumblerooskies]

We have tennis courts?

Precisely my point...we don't!

[PAmedic]

Good to hear that.

Still nothing on the official site, though: http://www.libertyflames.com/index.cfm? ... &TeamID=17

now to get the Men's team back on track.

[flamesbball84]

We have tennis courts?

Precisely my point...we don't!

Where do the tennis teams play then?

[flames1971]

We have tennis courts?

Precisely my point...we don't!

Where do the tennis teams play then?

I thought they were consrtucting new courts

[matshark]

now to get the Men's team back on the road again.

hmm...

[Fumblerooskies]

We have tennis courts?

Precisely my point...we don't!

Where do the tennis teams play then?

EC Glass, I think???

[ATrain]

Home matches are being played at EC Glass, yes.

As for the tennis court situation at LU, I stand by my original answer to smoothie when he asked: No comment.

I guess women's lacrosse could use the football field. Many other schools not in the power conferences use the football fields for lacrosse and field hockey.

[Fumblerooskies]

I would think the soccer field would be the ideal place...at least for games. I think I can speculate with 100% certainty that it will NOT be the football field. Think of all the lines that would have to be painted on the field...and I don't think that is going to happen.

[SuperJon]

LCA practice football field maybe? Behind the ice rink.

[flamesbball84]

I would think the soccer field would be the ideal place...at least for games. I think I can speculate with 100% certainty that it will NOT be the football field. Think of all the lines that would have to be painted on the field...and I don't think that is going to happen.

W&L plays on their new football field...

[rueful]

hijack, but, i thought they were supposed to be building new tennis courts by the lca softball field

[bigsmooth]

glad to see the ladies have found a conference. now i hope the dept gives them a quality field to play on

[soccer7]

I was wishing that the addition of womans lax would give the athletic department some incentive to build a new soccer/lax facility over by the new dorms. Some thing in the line of Klockner stadium at UVA but a little scaled down. It would be great and the school could host some state tourny for soccer and lax.

[vabills]

Any word on a coach. My daughter is a senior and going to LU in the fall. her current high School coach wants to send info down and really talk to the LU coach about having her play next season. Still awaiting info.

BTW, if they are starting next season, how are they recruiting for a D1 school with no coach? It is going to be very difficult to compete at that level without having some serious recruiting efforts. An all walkon team is going to struggle for a while.

[PAmedic]

Any word on a coach. My daughter is a senior and going to LU in the fall. her current high School coach wants to send info down and really talk to the LU coach about having her play next season. Still awaiting info.

BTW, if they are starting next season, how are they recruiting for a D1 school with no coach? It is going to be very difficult to compete at that level without having some serious recruiting efforts. An all walkon team is going to struggle for a while.

BUMP

anyone give the man an answer?

welcome to ff.com, VABILLS- hope your girl enjoys LU

[flamesbball84]

it's going to be difficult to for a first-year program to win more than a couple games to begin with...

[PAmedic]

on the other hand- nothing like being on the ground floor of establishing a new DI program.

(Presby's marketing strategy)

Glass 1/2 full v. Glass 1/2 empty

[PAmedic]

Any word on a coach. My daughter is a senior and going to LU in the fall. her current high School coach wants to send info down and really talk to the LU coach about having her play next season. Still awaiting info.

BTW, if they are starting next season, how are they recruiting for a D1 school with no coach? It is going to be very difficult to compete at that level without having some serious recruiting efforts. An all walkon team is going to struggle for a while.

OK- here's a little info:

interviews for the coach are still ongoing, but it seems likely they are getting close.

questions can be referred to Meredith Eaker, contact info is here: http://www.libertyflames.com/index.cfm?PID=10886

[vabills]

thanks. see pm. It's still tough for a walkon when current HS lax coach doesn't even have a contact point to send info to. I am contacting the person you mentioned, and see if her coach can find someone to send stuff to, so it doesn't get lost in the paper shuffle.

[flamesbball84]

on the other hand- nothing like being on the ground floor of establishing a new DI program.

(Presby's marketing strategy)

Glass 1/2 full v. Glass 1/2 empty

I'd much rather go D2 or D3 and actually be able to win games than go to a first-year D1 program that is most likely going to get handled game in and game out. With the nature of lacrosse, LU is going to find that lacrosse recruits are a lot more likely to go down to the lower levels because they will be able to go to some of the top tiered programs and be able to be on national championship contending teams year in, year out. Many lax kids have parents that are more than capable of being able to afford paying for their education, so the need to get their education paid for via athletic scholarship is not even close to as important as it is for sports like basketball, for example.

The way they are setting up the program is setting it up for immediate and long term failure. You cant expect a lacrosse team to be even competitive with the wrost of the worst in D1 if you don't give a coach a minimum of one full year to recruit. By giving them only the summer, you might as well expect to have a 0-1 win season, unless they schedule a bunch of sorry to middle of the pack D2s and D3s. It's going to be extremely hard to develop long term success if your very first year you don't even show signs of competitiveness. YOu don't even have to be winning games to show you can be competitive and win in the future, but if you are getting handled every game that's not really going to appeal to anyone. You have to be able to show recruits that, even though the team is losing, that there is a culture in place that breeds competitiveness and can eventually lead to a culture of expecting to win every game. That's not going to happen by giving a coach such a drasticalyl short time frame to recruit an entire lax team, not unless you get a coach who can sell a ketchup popsicle to a woman in a white dress on a 90+ degree summer day.

[ATrain]

Well their competition is Jacksonville, Longwood, Howard, Presby, Detroit-Mercy, and High Point. They may not be nationally ranked, but in the new conference I think our team will be able to hold its own very well.

[vabills]

Atrain, other than Jville and High Point, which I don't know, those other schools have had D1 programs for a while. With Lax, especially girls, you could have the best goalie in the world, but if the defense can't keep the penalty and 1 on 1 situations to a minimum, the goalie is going to get beat 90% of the time. Hopefully, the new coach knows that and can convince the most atheletic girls to play defense first. much better long term to lose game 8-2 vs. losing 25-8.