Women S Lacrosse

After nearly four years as Towson University's athletic director, Mike Hermann resigned from his position this week. Hermann, whose resignation was made official Tuesday and was first reported in the Towerlight newspaper Thursday, said that although the resignation was not planned, "it was in the best interest of the program, given the overall situation at hand." He said he is proud of the progress made in Towson athletics during his tenure. "I feel great about the things that have happened in the last four years," Hermann said.

Missy Doherty, who coached for seven years at Towson, will be the new head coach of Penn State's women's lacrosse team, Penn State announced Friday. Doherty, who has won five national championships as a player and coach, will serve as the ninth head coach in program history. "Missy is a rising star in collegiate women's lacrosse and Penn State is fortunate to be able to bring her to Happy Valley to lead our program," said Penn State athletic director Tim Curley said in a news release.

A University of Virginia lacrosse player charged in the death of a member of the women's lacrosse team attacked one of his teammates last year, but their coach did not know the gravity of the situation, school officials said. George Huguely, 22, and the unnamed player went to men's lacrosse coach Dom Starsia days after the February 2009 attack and told him they had gotten into a "scuffle" but that they had worked things out, the university told the Washington Post for a story published Saturday.

After nearly four years as Towson University's athletic director, Mike Hermann resigned from his position this week. Hermann, whose resignation was made official Tuesday and was first reported in the Towerlight newspaper Thursday, said that although the resignation was not planned, "it was in the best interest of the program, given the overall situation at hand." He said he is proud of the progress made in Towson athletics during his tenure. "I feel great about the things that have happened in the last four years," Hermann said.

When Jenny Slingluff set out to recruit players for the first North Carolina women's varsity lacrosse team, she headed straight for Baltimore.With no high school girls lacrosse anywhere near Chapel Hill, the Tar Heels coach and Roland Park graduate knew exactly where to find athletes with well-developed skills. She now has 13 Baltimore-area women on her roster, including 10 on scholarship, as the Tar Heels head into their second varsity season.Slingluff is not the only college coach scouring the Baltimore area for players.

After nearly four years as Towson University's athletic director, Mike Hermann resigned this week. Hermann, whose resignation was made official Tuesday and was first reported in the Towerlight newspaper Thursday, said that although the resignation was not planned, "it was in the best interest of the program, given the overall situation at hand." He said he is proud of the progress made in Towson athletics. "I feel great about the things that have happened in the last four years," Hermann said.

Leann Shuck is returning to Broadneck High to join her sister Jennifer as a head coach of a Bruins team. Leann has been named head girls soccer coach, succeeding David Lord who resigned recently for personal reasons.Jennifer Shuck took over as head girls lacrosse coach last spring, succeeding Leann, who left for a year to be an assistant women's lacrosse coach at William & Mary College in Williamsburg, Va.The Shucks were standout soccer and lacrosse players at Broadneck before going on to the University of Maryland.

Opening the season 10-0 might have a lot of athletes feeling pretty cocky. Not St. Mary's women's lacrosse players. The Seahawks, ranked No. 5 in Division III, are confident and optimistic, but their enthusiasm is tempered by memories of last season. After starting 9-0, the Seahawks dropped three straight games, including a 15-7 loss to Mary Washington in the Capital Athletic Conference tournament semifinal. They made the NCAA tournament, but fell 9-8 to Ithaca in the first round. "One of the main reasons we've been working so hard is that we know how it felt to be that good and then lose it at the end of the season," said goalie Jen Chumley, a Bel Air graduate.

CHESTERTOWN -- Sarah Coste scored a school-record 10 goals as Washington College (1-0) defeated Widener (0-2), 16-10, xTC yesterday in women's lacrosse.Coste's performance broke her record of nine goals, which she set in 1989. The senior is also Washington's record holder in career goals (135) and goals in a season (68).Widener.. .. .. 6.. .. 4 -- 10Washington . .. 7.. .. 9 -- 16Goals: WI--Crow 3, Eilers 3, Patton 3, Rotondo; WA--Coste 10, Tiehel 2, Doyle 2, Clements 2. Assists: WI--Cressman, Crowe; WA--Clements 2, McCleary 2, Doyle, Tiehel, Coste.

Somehow, the dream come true did not feel the way Sue Heether had expected.In the final seconds of the World Cup women's lacrosse championship game four years ago in Scotland, Heether stood in the goal with the U.S. team on the brink of winning a second straight title."

After nearly four years as Towson University's athletic director, Mike Hermann resigned this week. Hermann, whose resignation was made official Tuesday and was first reported in the Towerlight newspaper Thursday, said that although the resignation was not planned, "it was in the best interest of the program, given the overall situation at hand." He said he is proud of the progress made in Towson athletics. "I feel great about the things that have happened in the last four years," Hermann said.

Less than a week after winning the Tewaaraton Award for the top women's lacrosse player in the country, Maryland's Caitlyn McFadden earned another national honor. The senior midfielder and Notre Dame Prep graduate won the Honda Sports Award on Monday, which also honors her as the best women's lacrosse player in the country. "I feel so incredibly grateful to be named alongside the top players in all of college sports by winning this year's Honda Sports Award," McFadden said in a news release.

The showdown is here — No. 1 Maryland vs. No. 2 Northwestern for the NCAA women's Division I lacrosse championship. When the teams square off at 5:30 p.m. today at Towson's Johnny Unitas Stadium in their first meeting since 2007, they bring much more than their top rankings. They have 15 national titles between them, including 13 of the past 18. Maryland (21-1) has twice as many championships with 10 (one before the NCAA took over the tournament), but the Wildcats (20-1)

Northwestern appeared ready to run away with its sixth straight NCAA Division I women's lacrosse championship Sunday when it ran up a 6-0 lead, but No. 1 seeded Maryland would come back to take a 13-11 victory and end the No. 2 Wildcats' reign as champs. Caitlyn McFadden's goal with 5:47 left stood up as the game-winner before a record announced crowd of 9,782 at Towson's Johnny Unitas Stadium as the Terrapins (22-1) won their 11th national title and their 10th in the NCAA. Karri Ellen Johnson added an insurance goal on a feed from Sarah Mollison with 2:03 left.

Big-game experience and pedigree won out for Northwestern on Friday night. The five-time defending NCAA DivisionI women's lacrosse champions eliminated stubborn North Carolina, 15-10, in front of a record crowd at Towson's Johnny Unitas Stadium. The Wildcats' victory sets up a marquee final Sunday against top-seeded Maryland. The two most decorated programs in women's lacrosse have accounted for 15 national championships between them, 10 by the Terrapins, who won seven straight titles from 1995 to 2001.

Caitlyn McFadden wanted just one thing for her 22nd birthday Friday, and she got it — a chance to play for the NCAA Division I women's lacrosse championship. The senior All-American scored four goals, including two in a six-goal finishing run, to lead the top-seeded Terrapins to a 14-5 win over Syracuse in the NCAA semifinals at Towson's Johnny Unitas Stadium before an announced crowd of 8,762. It was the largest crowd ever for a women's lacrosse game in the United States.

Mission: To maintain a museum, depository and showplace for memorabilia, artifacts, equipment, written material, photographs, sculptures, trophies and documents relating to the sport of lacrosse and its 360-year history, including its Native American origins; to honor men and women, past and present, for their contribution to the sport; and to enshrine such individuals in the National Lacrosse Hall of Fame. The museum and hall of fame is a program of US Lacrosse, the nonprofit national governing body for the sport of men's and women's lacrosse.

Amy Wolff and Dani Fostik, who were synonymous with Liberty High sports the past four years, now are helping pump excitement into UMBC's softball and women's lacrosse programs, respectively.Wolff, a freshman outfielder, has helped the Retrievers go from a 10-29 record last season to a 25-21 mark, entering the final two games of the year.The 25-21 record is the best ever for a UMBC softball team.Fostik, a freshman goalie, has started every game for UMBC and played a major role in the team's 9-5 record, which is the best for the team in seven years at the Division I level.

This weekend's Division I women's lacrosse tournament in Towson features a lot of familiar faces. That's the way it usually is at the women's lacrosse final four. Three of last year's semifinalists return: five-time defending champion Northwestern, Maryland and North Carolina. The "newcomer" is Syracuse, but the Orange isn't all that new. It was a semifinalist once before, in 2008. In a sport that is growing rapidly at the college level — nearly tripling the number of Division I programs in 20 years — and is getting more competitive all the time, that parity has not shown up at the top very quickly.

As the members of the Virginia women's lacrosse team made their way from University Hall to Klockner Stadium Sunday morning, their mood seemed light and, as is often the case with a bunch of college girls, chatty. The only reminders of the tragedy that transpired here nearly two weeks ago were the cameras from ESPN that trailed them, and the dark blue T-shirts the players unveiled after taking the field for warm-ups in their opening round game in the NCAA women's lacrosse championships against Towson.