GT, Auburn & Clemson

Hey Dawg Fans!

Our first game of the season against Tech on March 3rd was a success! We won 19-9! We had one of the best crowds yet! Tons of parents and friends came for the game in Atlanta as well as some girls from the Mill Creek feeder program, and some ATL players and coaches, also we had tons of alumni come up for the game including Laura “Bean” and Sarah “Kane” from last season! The team played their first game together and started meshing immediately! Big plays on offense by Lisa “Avatar” Riondet and Kaitlin Shumate and Michele Manis held the defense together and had tons of checks throughout the game!

Saturday was a fun and cold day of lacrosse! We started the morning with a win over Auburn 20-3! Then Clemson played Auburn for a win, and at 4, we played Clemson and won 19-7! Jenna Dreyer was a huge impact all over the field completing tons of transitions, assists and goals. Emily Seidel was great in the goal stopping countless shots! We had tons of different girls making goals and worked together all over the field! We have had such a great start to the season!

The next time our team will be playing is out in SANTA BARBARA! We are all so excited to get out to California and play 4 top 20 teams! Not to mention the warmth, beaches, and whale watching! It should be an exciting weekend with great lacrosse! We now have the schedule for Santa Barbara & ATOWN on the website so check them out!

GO DAWGS!

 

Tis the Season!

Hey Dawg Fans!

We have our official 2012 team! We are so excited to have 13 new rookies and are very excited for what they are going to bring to the team! Our season this year should be very challenging and fun and we are looking forward to some great games!

We are kicking off our fundraising tomorrow by hosting a clinic at Duncan Creek Park for the Mill Creek lacrosse programs! It is going to be a full day of lax and fun!

GO DAWGS!

Updates

Sorry for the delay dawg fans!!

These past couple weeks have been so hectic between SWLL Playday, the GA/FL game, and school! The roster and schedule have yet to be finalized but I will get that out to you asap!

As far as SWLL Playday/Tryouts, it was a very successful day! We came out of the play day 3-1 with our only loss to Ole Miss! The team played great! The rookies really came out and showed their best and really started to mesh with the returners…which resulted in a big win again Florida! Although this was an end to our fall ball, it really got everyone pumped up for the spring, and we all want to make this the most successful year yet!! Stay tuned for updates with the team as far as the roster & schedule for the spring!!

GO DAWGS!

SWLL Play Day & Tryouts!

Hey Dawg Fans!!

We have a lax filled weekend coming up! On October 22^nd, we have our SWLL Playday at the Owl’s Nest at Kennesaw State University. We will be playing four 40 minute games. These games will also serve as our tryouts for the team’s 2012 season!!! We are so excited to get our new team and start working to make this our best season yet!!

 Schedule:

9:50- 10:30 UGA vs. Ole Miss (Field 2)

11:30-12:10 UGA vs. Emory (Field 2)

2:00-2:40 UGA vs. UT (Field 1)

3:40-4:20 UGA vs. UF (Field 1)

The schools address is:

3220 Busbee Drive

Kennesaw, GA 30144

We had our first scrimmage of the fall on October 3^rd against Clemson! The game was a lot of fun and we won 18-6. It was great to see how well our returners meshed with all the new girls playing fall ball! Lisa “Avatar” Riondet did great on the draws, Murphy Ferguson had some sick crease rolls that led to several goals, and MC McCue and Michele Manis led the defense as usual! It was an overall great start for the team and we’re looking to keep it up this coming weekend!

GO DAWGS!!!

Information Meeting!!

Hey Dawg Fans!!!

There will be an information meeting on Wednesday August 31st @ 7:00 pm in Ramsey room 213!! Please come if you’re thinking about playing fall ball and/or trying out in the spring! Can’t wait to see everyone there!!

Go DAWGS!!

Kelly (aka Dale)

Interested Players!

Hey Dawg Fans!
I’m Kelly, the new Public Relations chair for the lacrosse team, so I’ll be doing my best to fill Kane’s shoes!! I hope everyone has had a smooth move in or will have a smooth move in!
For girls who are interested in playing fall ball and/or trying out:: be looking for an update about when the information meeting will be! You can follow the Women’s Lacrosse Team on twitter, facebook, this blog, or our website (http://georgia.ialax.com/).
We have an awesome exec board put together (which you can check out on our website) and we are hoping to make this the best year yet!! Hope you all are getting excited about living in athens and playing some lax!

GO DAWGS!!!
Kelly

Every season comes to an end

Hey Dawg Fans,

First of all I would like to thank you so much for following and supporting our team all season. We truly appreciate everything our fans, parents, friends and family do for us. Coming from a senior it is hard for me to say that our lacrosse season has come to a close. On Sunday, we played in the SWLL Championship game and although our fight was hard, Florida was the better team and pulled out a 12-9 victory. We as a team are proud of our efforts and had an amazing season. 

A special congrats to a few of our teammates who were recognized for excellent play in the SWLL season. These Dawgs were voted on by opposing teams which show how much of an impact they made on the field this year! Congratulations to Laura Bean (Senior/Midfield), Sarah Kane (Graduate Student/Goalie), Michele Manis (Junior/Defense), and Lisa “Avatar” Riondet (Freshman/Midfield). Michele Manis was also recognized as SWLL Defensive Player of the Year for the second year in a row! Congrats DAWGS!

At the end of every game we have a team talk that helps us focus on the good, bad and ugly of the game and to look ahead at what we need to improve to the next game. Although, there is no “next” game this season we still had the team talk which was bittersweet but optimistic for the future of the team.

Bean (senior/captain) announced that the 2011-2012 captains are Michele Manis, Mary Cate McCue and Taylor Lugash. Last week we also announced next years executive board: Kaitlin Shumate (President), Emily Seidel (Vice-President), Samantha Segers (Treasurer), Melissa “Fetus” Moore (Fundraising Chair), Kelly Arnhart (Public Relations Chair), Lisa “Avatar” Riondet (Social Chair), Lindsay “Goose” Lehrer and Lindsay Brinker (Co-Merchandise Chairs). The team has AMAZING leadership for the 2011-2012 season and they will succeed on and off the field!

One last special (personal) shout out to our senior/captain, Laura Bean. She is one of the best lacrosse players and people I know. I think the team would not be where they are today without Bean’s leadership as captain on the field. She is going to do amazing things after she graduates this summer and I wish her all the best! I couldn’t have asked for a better person to share my last season with than Bean!

Thanks for following the blog this season, I have truly enjoyed sharing the inner workings of our team to you all! Kelly will do and AMAZING job next year keeping you all informed! Again, I appreciate everything you all do for the team! Thanks for cheering for the DAWGS!

GO DAWGS!

Kane

TIME FOR SWLL

Hey Dawg Fans,

If you are new to UGA LAX you need to know that SWLL CHAMPIONSHIP weekend is the biggest weekend of the year! We start every season with the goal of winning SWLL. Last year we accomplished this is AMAZING fashion, just check out the video from our sudden death overtime win over Florida! We know that the past couple of weeks have been hard for the team, we are working out all of the little kinks to get ready for this weekend. We all know we have the talent and the heart we just need to put it all together and I KNOW that we can!

In the first round we play 7th seed Ole Miss at 11am at Lassiter High School. In the regular season we won 17-5 over the Rebels but we know that this team just keeps on improving and is one of the fastest teams in SWLL, our Coach Tietz made us run extra sprints yesterday for that reason! We are hoping that we can pull out a win over Ole Miss to advance to the Semi-finals vs. the winner of the 4th seed South Carolina and 5th seed Florida State game. This game will be played at 5:30pm. If you remember from the beginning of our season we squeaked by with a 13-12 win over USC. They are a great team and only lost to Florida by 5 this past weekend. USC is always a strong offensive team with tons of speed in the midfield. We have not played Florida State this season but they come into the tournament with a 8-2 record with the only 2 losses to Florida and Central Florida. I think the 4/5 game will be a tough match-up. After the semi-finals are played the finalist continue onto the SWLL Championship finals which will be played Sunday April 17th at 1pm at Lassiter High School. Follow us on twitter for game time updates!

We are so excited for this weekend and want a BIG CROWD out there to support our efforts to defend our 2010 SWLL title! Please try and make it our to Lassiter HS, it is the last SWLL lacrosse that will be played this season!

GO DAWGS!

On a side note if you are ever in ATHENS, GA go and try out SWEET PEPPERS DELI on the corner of West Board and Pulaski St. They were so nice to let us host a percentage weekend there for A-town and they contributed over $400 to UGA WOMEN’S LACROSSE! Thank you so much for your support Sweet Peppers and to our upcoming Fundraising Chair, Fetus for setting up the weekend!

Name THAT Teammate 2.0

Hey Dawg Fans,

Since there has been a lack of Name that Teammates I want to vamp this week up a little bit

For this week you must correctly guess all 3 TEAMMATES! If you get 2 out of 3 you will not win!

So here it is…

TEAMMATE #1

1. This teammate comes from Maryland

2. She was a member of her high school dance company

3. She is a rookie

TEAMMATE #2

1. This teammate had a birthday this week

2. Her nickname is “sister”

3. She plays midfield

TEAMMATE #3

1.  This teammate is the only one from VA

2. She drives a sweet volvo

3. She was on the 2010 All SWLL team in 2010

Start your guesses!

This weekend I will try to post updates on the blog but if not watch for our tweets!

I really think this is our weekend to shine!

GO DAWGS!

Long over due update

Hey Dawg Fans,

First, I would like to apologize for my lack of updates lately. My mind was going crazy with A-town for the past few weeks! Now that A-town is over we are in the final stretch of our season, we will be traveling to Lindenwood University for a tournament next weekend (April 7-10th) and the next weekend is SWLL Championships (April 16-17th)! We did great at A-town despite the rain and the fact we were running the tournament! Thank you to all of our parents, friends, and fans that came out to support us and volunteered to take stats and sell t-shirts at A-town! WE COULDN’T HAVE DONE IT WITHOUT YOU ALL! And a special shout-out to our coaches who helped tremendously with the logistics of the tournament!

A-town was a rainy yet fun and exciting weekend for lacrosse. We are so honored that we had 8 TOP 20 teams come down to Athens to participate. We started out the weekend vs. UC Davis (came in ranked #2, now #1) we started off really strong and lost a little momentum the rest of the game which the Aggies took advantage of and settled the game at 13-8. On Saturday we had a thriller vs. Texas. We dominated and then let the Longhorns work their way back to a tie 10-10 at the end of regulation. In overtime, we took over and scored 3 to make the final score 13-11 in favor of the  Dawgs! Unfortunately, due to weather conditions we did not get to finish our game versus Colorado (came in #1, now #2) where we were winning 8-2. The game does not count toward our season, but it sure does show the rest of the WCLA nation that the Dawgs are ready to take down ANYONE! On Sunday, games were moved to Duncan Creek Park in Dacula, GA. We played a close game with Colorado State (current #7) but couldn’t find the back of the net enough and lost 5-4. Our final game was against Boston College (current #19) who gave us a back to back battle before we took control of the draw and defense to settle the game at 10-6. We are very proud of our play at A-town and look forward to showing more of what UGA Lacrosse is all about at LU and SWLL! 

We are looking forward to the Lindenwood Invitational in St. Louis, MO. We will be leaving Athens (via a charter bus) Thursday afternoon for the long drive to MO. Our first game is late Friday night (4/8) against the tournament hosts Lindenwood. We will then play BYU and Minnesota on Saturday and finish up the weekend on Sunday versus Michigan.

I will be better about updating this blog this coming week and I promise Name that teammate will be back this coming week.

Enjoy the weekend! The team will be enjoying our first weekend off of lacrosse in a LONG time

GO  DAWGS!