Games were closed to parents and family at Hotchkiss School this spring, which presented challenges, especially on Senior Day. After the lost season of a year ago, the team’s six seniors would also be robbed of the kind of closure that this ceremony annually brings. Students were allowed at the … [Read more...]
FINISHING THE JOB! Charlotte North, BC capture NCAA title
The fourth time was the charm. And so much more than that. After the last three full seasons all ended the same way, with a loss in the NCAA championship game, fourth-seeded Boston College rewrote the ending, getting a record-setting day from attacker Charlotte North and timely goals throughout, … [Read more...]
Giant killers! BC shocks UNC, will play Syracuse in final
Rachel Hall and Boston College fired the shot heard ‘round the college lacrosse world on Friday afternoon. Or, more accurately, stopped the shots. The fourth-ranked Eagles handed No. 1 North Carolina its first loss of the season in the NCAA semifinals in Towson, Md., overcoming an early 3-1 deficit … [Read more...]
Prep Girls Rankings: Nobles, Hotchkiss, Exeter eyeing No. 1
Several teams have completed their seasons. Others, including those in the Independent School League, are looking at the end of their seasons this week. It’s been anything but a typical spring in prep school girls lacrosse, Abbreviated schedules. Cohort opponents. COVID protocols. Crossed … [Read more...]
At 10-0, athletic Nobles girls making all the right moves
Earlier this week, Sophie Ensley, the first-year goalie for the Noble and Greenough girls lacrosse team, was walking near the school’s softball field, where she was invited to pick up a bat. “Someone threw her a pitch and she hit it into the outfield,” said Nobles coach Brooke Asnis. “On the second … [Read more...]
From the podcast: Harvard coach Gerry Byrne on competing, adapting
Harvard head coach Gerry Byrne knows that life is not a straight line. It’s more interesting when it zigs and zags, and his life has taken him down a fulfilling, sometimes unexpected path. Byrne spent 16 years (over two stints) as an assistant coach at Notre Dame, where he was regarded as one of … [Read more...]
