A Sea Of Red

Does anyone have the girl's LAX schedule? I'm just wondering because I see that the guys are playing App State and I didn't know if the girls were. I know a girl on App's LAX team and would go to that game.

if you would- ask her and get back to us- not much info forthcoming from either team. we'd love to hear from players on either one.

yeah I'm on the guys team, I didn't know about this site at all until today, none of the other guys did either. We have a great team and we are growing. We have a goaly that in the three games I've played with him in the fall had one shutout, and 3 goals total against him. We have great tallent on our midfeild, and returning tallent from attack. Our Defence is still very strong and we have been focusing alot on it. Our first game in the season is this saturday at 1:00 at williams, it's free, but I'm not even sure if anyone except westfall (who is not in any way affiliated with the team anymore) and the mods know about this site. I'll have to tell the girls team about this site and get them to sign in. I know some of the other boy's will be.

LivnLax27 - First off, welcome to the board. I'm glad you found our place. One of greatest challenges is getting the word out to students and alumni alike.

As for thelaxman, he has been nothing but supportive of the school and the program on not only this board but the one we arose from. He has made it clear he wants nothing but growth & success for LU Lacrosse.

LL27: good to have you and the other guys on here! if you can drag your counterparts over here we'd be glad to welcome them aboard- as well as updates on their team and upcoming season.

Here is the Lady Flames schedule for 2006:

Liberty @ Duke vs. Duke/UNCW/UNCCH March 4-5
UNCCH @Liberty March 25
Liberty @ Elon March 31 (w/ boys)
Wake Forest @Liberty April 8
ECU @Liberty April 22

The Elon game is 5:30 p.m. and the Wake Forest game I assume will be around noon since we play Davidson at 2:00 p.m.
I will pass on the times for the remaining games as I learn them

Tom Metallo

thanks for the info Coach- appreciate you doing the leg work on that one for us!

I can't find Ladies' scores ANYWHERE. still in the process of weeding thru all our opponents homepages to see if I can dig anything up.

Somebody please direct one of the ladies our way to update us. For all I know- those games earlier this month never happened?

There's supposed to be a game today but I drove by the stadium and they didn't have anything set up. I don't know if its happening today.

anyone know what the deali-oh is, yo?

Again w/ the talking to myself. anyway- a nice article in the Champion (online) which verifies that this team is very much alive. We just need to direct them over here to u/d us regularly.

Maybe that crazy Texan scares them off.

Mac McGinley’s lacrosse ministry

by Amy Field
While Liberty’s women’s lacrosse team may not be something everyone on campus has heard about, the team has recently been gaining ground in popularity and recognition with recruits.
The women’s lacrosse team is a club sport that started three years ago. Mary Catherine McGinley, called “Mac” by her friends, was there when it began and is now the captain of the team.

“I started playing lacrosse when I was 10 years old,” McGinley said. “It’s really big where I’m from in New Jersey. They kind of try to breed lacrosse players there.”

When she was younger, she played basketball and volleyball as well as lacrosse until her last year in high school.

“I quit lacrosse my senior year, because our team was number one in the nation, and I wasn’t going to get the playing time that I wanted,” McGinley said. “I actually quit lacrosse because I was hoping to play volleyball here at Liberty.”

Later on she decided she did not want to play volleyball.
“When I got (to Liberty) I realized that I really missed being on a team, but I wasn’t ready to dedicate my whole life to a sport.”

When McGinley heard that many people on campus had not even heard of lacrosse, she decided to look into starting what she sees as a lacrosse ministry at Liberty.

“(The team) started my freshman year,” McGinley said. “I took over the team halfway through that semester. Then my sophomore year was when I took the initiative and took on the coaching and captain positions.”

The players on the first team were mostly girls who had never played before and wanted to learn. That fall, with only three girls on the team who had played previously, McGinley was able to get women’s lacrosse approved to be a club sport.

According to McGinley, the team competes in the Carolina Women’s Lacrosse League. Although there is a league in Virginia, Liberty plays mostly Carolina teams, including the club teams at Duke University, the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill and UNC-Wilmington, East Carolina University, Elon University and Wake Forest University. The CWLL is more on Liberty’s level as a younger, newer team.

“A lot of our girls have never played (lacrosse) before this,” McGinley said. However, after two seasons of having to teach the basics of lacrosse over and over again to completely inexperienced girls, McGinley has a newly implemented rule. It requires new potential players to have some prior experience in the sport before trying out. This has allowed the team to improve, since it can start off training where it left off last season instead of going back to the basics every season for new players. It has also improved the quality of new players.

“I’m starting to get emails from girls before they start coming (to Liberty) who have played lacrosse and are interested in playing for us,” McGinley said.

As a junior majoring in elementary education, McGinley hopes to go into a career in both teaching and coaching. For now, her ministry with the women’s lacrosse team continues in the form of a weekly Bible study, prayer before and after every practice, as well as witnessing to opposing teams after games.

“We want to emphasize that we’re not playing for just fun — we’re playing to glorify God,” McGinley said.

Contact Amy Field at afield@liberty.edu.

sounds like we need to keep her on the mountain as a coach after she graduates! AD Barber are you listening?

Glad you liked the article!
Mac would be a great coach to keep on after she graduates- I completely agree.
I didn't know about this site til today- it's a great source for schedule info. Thanks for putting it all together.

Amy- glad to see you found us- spread the word! There's a lot here to read.

Enjoyed reading your article as we're all pulling for LU Ladies LAX, looking forward to great things from the program and hoping the school supports them as they should.

Amy Field wrote:Glad you liked the article!
Mac would be a great coach to keep on after she graduates- I completely agree.
I didn't know about this site til today- it's a great source for schedule info. Thanks for putting it all together.

I'll take this one: Hey Amy, glad to see you made your way to the site. You gonna work for the Champion next year? Myself and ATrain are both here so itd be nice to have folks from teh local media (Chris Lang) and folks from the Champion around so why not register and stay a while?