WLAX on BTN at 1:00: PSU vs Princeton
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If you're watching women's Lacrosse on TV, you might want to think about a hobby or maybe getting a life.
If you're watching women's Lacrosse on TV, you might want to think about a hobby or maybe getting a life.
-PSU sport
-NCAA playoff for a Final Four berth.
-It's a Saturday afternoon, nothing else on TV
So you're replying to a thread about chicks with sticks, eh? Whatever floats your boat I guess.
What a clown.
If you're watching women's Lacrosse on TV, you might want to think about a hobby or maybe getting a life.
If you're still complaining about calls from the 2014 Ohio State game you may want to think about getting a hobby AND a life.
Hey Ned, I noticed that a freshman, Maria Auth, had a big game. I checked the roster and - other than the PSU GK (from my high school alma mater Marple Newtown) - she's the shortest player on the team at 5' 2". I assume she was a top recruit. Was she expected to contribute this much already? Also, looks like MD recruiting has been a key for PSU. Is MD THE hotbed for women's high school lacrosse?For better or worse, It has been my life for more than a decade now.
Livin' the dream!
BTW, this was an incredible game.
I read and re-read my post 20 times and didn't see anything in it regarding the 2014 Ohio State game. Maybe I missed it. And if you're stalking all of my posts, you definitely need to get a life.If you're still complaining about calls from the 2014 Ohio State game you may want to think about getting a hobby AND a life.
At least you own it...I respect that.For better or worse, It has been my life for more than a decade now.
Livin' the dream!
BTW, this was an incredible game.
lol at the guy who spent 30 years umpiring t-ball games telling others to get a life.
Why don't you go ahead and make your billionth post about Pat Chambers instead of worrying about what other people are watching on TV?
Boy, you really don't have a clue. Umpiring tee ball games? WTF? But I did coach baseball...you know, not sitting in front of a TV and being involved in my kid's life as well as many other kids?
I believe in a thread about Pat Chambers one should post about Pat Chambers. In a thread about women's LAX, one shouldn't post about the 2014 Ohio State game, but I guess you're not smart enough to figure that out. And if you notice, my original post was a joke, hence the smiley face. Again, probably went over your head because you're apparently not very bright.
SE PA is coming on in Lax. Cannot believe the number of little kids playing versus 5 to 10 years ago
What's taken so long? I ask that respectfully and curiously. Lax is all over NE, Long Island, NJ, then skips PA and goes into Maryland?
Just never made sense to me that SE PA was, ahem, lax.
If you're watching women's Lacrosse on TV, you might want to think about a hobby or maybe getting a life.
True. Actually being there, like I was, would have been a much better choice.
Very interesting game. Penn State made a very surprising strategic move right out of the box. They apparently knew that Princeton was going to try to face guard Big Ten attacker of the year and 1st team All-American Steph Lazo. Normally, Lazo is the QB of Penn State's offense. She stations herself behind the goal and feeds the rest of the team.
For this game, though, PSU choose to remove her entirely from the offense. She stood far afield, drawing a Princeton defender away from the goal and allowing the rest of the PSU team to go six on six for their attack. For pretty much the entire game, Lazo and her defender just stood off to the side and weren't involved at all.
Both teams were apparently content with this strategy because PSU made no attempt to get Lazo the ball (usually, Lazo will handle the ball multiple times on each possession - in this game, she touched the ball exactly twice, during a brief period when Princeton went down a man and they were going to play zone anyway).
That would seem to be an odd strategy on PSU's part. I wouldn't think taking your 1st team All American out of the offense, just to remove one defender would be a typical strategy - but it worked.
I would love to hear what the thinking was behind that move and I watched the replay on the BTN hoping the announcers might explain it or at least ask Missy Doherty, but they were pretty much clueless. All too often they would mention how the Princeton defender was face guarding Lazo and removing her from the game, when it was clear that this was a conscious coaching decision on PSU's part.
This is great news! Go PSU WLAX!!!
I coach the sport at the 5/6 grade level and am still trying to figure out the rules, but I love it. This is the best sport, although talented girls in NEPA will go Field Hockey.I like that sport too, and don't understand most rules.
I coach the sport at the 5/6 grade level and am still trying to figure out the rules, but I love it. This is the best sport, although talented girls in NEPA will go Field Hockey.I like that sport too, and don't understand most rules.
I disagree with AldenT's basic premise. I don't think that LAX skipped PA, or more specifically, SE PA.
Historically, it's been one of the hotbeds of WLAX. Was it on par with Long Island, Maryland, or portions of NJ? Not in quantity, but it certainly had quality.
The NCAA has staged championships in D1 WLAX since 1982. Since then, Temple was the runner-up in '83 and the champ in '84, Penn State was the runner-up in '86, and then PSU and Temple were the finalists (where they split) in the '87 and '88 finals, and PSU also won the '89 finals. Maryland made it to the finals in '90 and '91, and won the '92 final, and since that time no PA university has made the NCAA finals except for the U. of Penn., which made the '08 finals. Maryland then won the championship from '95 thru '01, with their opponents being Princeton, UVA, Loyola, and Georgetown (most multiple times). Also, if you go back before the NCAA held WLAX championships, the United state Women's Lacrosse Association (USWLA) staged them from 1978 thru 1980, and the Association for Intercollegiate Athletics for Women (AIAW) staged them in 1981 and 1982. PSU won the 3 USWLA D1 championships, Maryland won the '81 AIAW championship, and Temple won the '82 AIAW championship. And where do you think the majority of Temple's and Penn State's players came from? That would be SE PA.
While women's LAX was initially offered at only private schools in SE PA, it gained a foothold at public high schools in Delaware County and in Bucks County, and to lesser extents in Montgomery County and Chester County (the collar counties that surround Philadelphia).
Quite a few WLAX athletes from SE PA are in the National Lacrosse HOF.
As I mentioned to sluggo in another thread, while there were incredibly talented WLAX players in the public schools that offered LAX in the 60s and 70s, there were limits on the sport expanding in SE PA (and PA in general). The PIAA (the body that governs high school sports in PA) did not add WLAX to its portfolio until the 2008-09 school year. In addition, when they first offered girl's soccer (1992-93 school year), there was serious push-back from field hockey coaches, which caused the PIAA to allow schools to sponsor women's soccer in either the fall or the spring. No other sport allowed schools/leagues to pick which season they would play in. Most schools that did not already have LAX programs elected to hold women's soccer in the spring, which pushed most of the field hockey players to play soccer at those schools, and thus to not have any interest in playing on club/tournament teams, as women's LAX was not played at their high school.
In short, SE PA was one of the hotbeds of WLAX talent. Unfortunately, the player participation level was rather stagnant from the '70s through the '00s, whereas WLAX exploded in MD, NJ, NY, and NE during that same interval, allowing them to overtake SE PA. Since 2009, when WLAX was governed by the PIAA, it has exploded in SE PA, and in PA in general.
I suspect that he might have been making a chauvinistic statement. LAX skipped PA for the guys.
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yet there are people that sit around the TV and watch golf.If you're watching women's Lacrosse on TV, you might want to think about a hobby or maybe getting a life.
Women and men's lacrosse is very strong in Colorado High Schools. Look at U. Denver's recent success.
Even worse are people that sit around and watch fishing. They're too lazy to even fish, they have to watch fishing on tv.
well I watch fishing shows, and I don't even fish!! They are usually early Saturday am, and I like looking at the boats and the equipment, just to make sure there isn't anything new I don't need!!
I think Jim Beardmore lead the western movement for Lacrosse to Colorado! He sure didn't hurt it.
