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NESCAC Conference Women's Lacrosse - Are all these schools the same?
I had dinner at friends last week and their daughter is a freshman at
Williams College who walked onto the lacrosse team. She said a few
things that are worth passing on.
1) The lacrosse coach at
Williams, who happens to be Christine Larson Mason was very fair in
giving walk-ons a fair shot in tryouts. Even though they were not
"recruited" they were given a fair chance and a few made the team (9
freshmen made the team)
2) When asked about the teams at
Amherst and
Middlebury she said
that they had lost to Amherst and that they were vary good. But she
had the feeling that those programs took more of a year round training
approach than Williams. I probed a little more and she said that Williams
did not have too much in the way of Fall workouts, especially since they had
a lot of players also playing field hockey. She had heard that Amherst
and Middlebury had demanding captain's practices and workouts in the Fall.
Williams is 9-3 with a 1 goal loss to Colby, 5 goal loss to Amherst and a 2
goal loss to Bowdoin, all very good teams, so they are not suffering too
much. But in the NESCAC they are in 5th place. In many other
conferences they might be in first place.
Amherst is 9-1 and Middlebury is 10-1 with an unbeaten league record and the
feather in their cap of handing Amherst their only loss of the year.
These two teams are also the last two defending NCAA D-III champs. Arguably
they are the best in the country. On the surface, going to school and
playing lacrosse at either Amherst, Middlebury would seem to be the
same. But a close look is needed to fully understand just what your
commitment to the school and the program will entail. It sounds like they
differ from one school to the next.As of 4/26/05 - standings taken
from www.nescac.com
| 1 |
Middlebury |
|
7 |
0 |
1.000 |
7 |
117 |
47 |
|
10 |
1 |
.909 |
11 |
173 |
73 |
| 2 |
Amherst |
|
6 |
1 |
.857 |
7 |
84 |
73 |
|
9 |
1 |
.900 |
10 |
116 |
98 |
| 3 |
Bowdoin |
|
5 |
2 |
.714 |
7 |
71 |
64 |
|
11 |
2 |
.846 |
13 |
143 |
89 |
| 4 |
Colby |
|
5 |
3 |
.625 |
8 |
78 |
77 |
|
10 |
4 |
.714 |
14 |
158 |
123 |
| 5 |
Williams |
|
4 |
3 |
.571 |
7 |
80 |
64 |
|
9 |
3 |
.750 |
12 |
151 |
89 |
| 6 |
Tufts |
|
3 |
4 |
.429 |
7 |
54 |
70 |
|
7 |
5 |
.583 |
12 |
128 |
102 |
| 7 |
Wesleyan |
|
3 |
5 |
.375 |
8 |
88 |
99 |
|
7 |
6 |
.538 |
13 |
144 |
145 |
| 8 |
Bates |
|
2 |
5 |
.286 |
7 |
66 |
82 |
|
7 |
7 |
.500 |
14 |
177 |
126 |
| 9 |
Trinity |
|
2 |
6 |
.250 |
8 |
93 |
99 |
|
8 |
6 |
.571 |
14 |
197 |
137 |
| 10 |
Connecticut College |
|
0 |
8 |
.000 |
8 |
55 |
111 |
|
5 |
10 |
.333 |
15 |
140 |
163 |
Ray Lauenstein is the author of
Baseball: Playing Outside the Lines and
The Making of a Student
Athlete. He also holds a Masters Degree in Sport Psychology and gives
seminars on Mental Skills Training and the Recruiting Process.
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