Michelle Smith (Wayland, Mass.) has guided Babson to three NEWMAC titles in her decade as the team's head coach. (Babson Athletics)
Michelle Smith is one of the women who has witnessed the growth of the Division 3 game from the ground level.
Before she took over the program at Babson College in 2011, she was starring as a player at Trinity.
Before that, she was learning the game growing up in Wayland, Mass., in a girls lacrosse landscape that was a lot emptier than today’s.
“There was one club in Mass., Rhode Island, New Hampshire, Vermont and Maine,” said Smith. “It was Mass Elite and that was it.
