Meet Freshman Steph Luce!

Only two weeks until our fall ball tournament! As we continue practice, the freshmen our getting more comfortable with college play. Next one up in our freshman introductions is Steph Luce, a goalie from Saratoga Springs!

Name: Steph Luce

Position: Goalie

Year/Major: Freshman/ History

Hometown/ HS: Saratoga Springs, NY

Birthday: September 8th

Why Hartwick?

I loved the team and the opportunities given by the school.

Favorite part of Harwick Lacrosse:

Everyone is so much fun to hang with and are willing to let you in.

Favorite...

Food: Corn beef and cabbage

Animal: Monkey

TV Show: Glee

Song: Set Fire to the Rain- Adele

Place on campus: Ali and Meg's room because it's nice and cool

On campus meal: Tuna

When I grow up I want to....: Work in a museum

Greetings from Senior Em Walsh in Italy!!

Check out Em Walsh trying to straighten out the leaning tower of Pisa! Here's what she had to say about it:
" I strained my back, i think. but I should be good as new come spring."

Meet Assistant Coach Wallace!

Learn about Hartwick's new Assistant Women's Lacrosse Coach, Kathleen Wallace

Wallace joins the Hartwick Women’s Lacrosse program after graduating from Dartmouth College in June, 2011 with a B.A. in Music. A native of Shoreham, NY, Wallace competed in cross country, basketball, and lacrosse at Shoreham-Wading River High School. In her senior year, she captained the lacrosse team to the program’s first New York State Championship. At Dartmouth College, Wallace broke into the starting line-up her freshman year and finished the season with 7 goals and 6 assists, including 2 game winners.  Wallace and her teamates travelled to Australia in December, 2008 to take on the Australian National Team, the reigning world champions, in preparation for their 2009 season. Unfortunately, Wallace suffered a career ending head injury shortly after in the winter of 2009.

 Wallace served as a volunteer assistant coach to the Dartmouth Lacrosse team for the remainder of her college time. In her four years, Dartmouth made two Ivy League tournament appearances, one appearance in the NCAA tournament, and won the Ivy League Title in 2011. She also worked as the J.V. Lacrosse coach at Hanover High in Hanover, NH as well as head coach of the Town of Hanover’s Youth Lacrosse League.

PROFILE:

Number: 19 in college, 9 in H.S.

Position: Low Attack

Major: Music

Hometown/H.S.: Shoreham, NY/ Shoreham-Wading River H.S.

Siblings: Brothers Justin (31), Kris (29), Devin (24), Twin Sister Suzanne (22)

FAVORITES:

Food: Peanut Butter and mac and cheese. Or if you want to get fancy I’d have to say duck

Color: Orange

Vacation: Camping at Rollins Pond in the Adirondacks

Sports Team: Mets and Jets

Song: Man in the Mirror by MJ

Animal: Zebra

3 FUN FACTS:

1.       I play the trombone

2.       I went in a hot air balloon with my sister this summer in Arizona

3.       I went scuba diving in the Great Barrier Reef in Australia

Season Recap

The 2011 season showed great potential for us in the coming years. Although we finished 7-8, the program’s second highest win total in a season, we were just 5 goals away from a 10-5 finish. We proved we can compete and we hope to build on this as we take on the 2012 season!

At the end of the season, four Hartwick players garnered All-Conference honors. Junior Brittany LaVaute, Freshman Brittany McCabe, and Freshman Morgan Galipeau earned Honorable Mention honors while Junior Hannah Kennedy was selected to the Sportswoman of the Year team. It was LaVaute’s second appearance on the All-Conference team after leading the team in caused turnovers (22) and was third in both ground balls (32) and draw controls (26). McCabe made her first appearance on the team after finishing her rookie season with 43 goals and 17 assists for 60 points, leading the team in all three categories. She also led all Empire 8 freshmen in goals scored, assists, and points in conference play, while also being named team MVP. Galipeau also made her All-Conference debut after starting 13 games in her first season at Hartwick. She ranked 4^th on the team in groundballs (31) and tied for fourth in caused turnovers (14). Kennedy was elected the team’s representative for the Women’s Lacrosse Sportsman of the Year Team for the second straight year. This award honors a student-athlete who competes with honor and integrity. Congrats girls!!

This summer, our team was named to the IWLCA Academic Squad. This award recognizes teams who have achieved a cumulative team GPA of 3.0 or above for the 2010-2011 academic year. We couldn’t be more proud of our girls; only a quarter of all D3 programs received such an honor!

We have all been hard at work this summer and can’t wait to start up the 2011-2012 school year! The campus is starting to buzz with excitement as students return in time for classes on Tuesday. Soon fall ball will be underway!

Celebrating Great Play!!!!

One of the Hartwick Women's Lacrosse traditions is to give out game balls. Game balls are given out to a player when she personally has a great game in-season.

Here is the update on the 2011 game balls given out and their individual stats for that game.

Brittany LaVaute, #14: HCWL vs Marywood University  for 4g, 3 gb, 3 dc, 5 ct
Jen Kaye, #27: HCWL vs Marywood University for 13 saves, 4gb, 1ct
Brittany McCabe #7: HCWL vs Marywood University for 5g, 1a, 2gb, 3 dc, 1ct
Ali Sisco, #21:HCWL vs New Paltz for 1a, 4dc, 1ct
Emily Walsh, #20: HCWL vs Keuka College for 3g, 2a, 1gb, 2ct
Ryan McGovern, #10: HCWL vs Alfred University for 3g, 2gbs, 1dc

This marks Ryan McGovern, Brittany McCabe and Ali Sisco's first game ball. Emily Walsh's game ball is her first since the 2009 season.

Kaye racks up goalkeeper awards after 3-0 start

Jen Kaye received Empire 8 Women's Lacrosse Goalie of the Week honors for the second week in a row along with ECAC Defensive Player of the Week honors for her games this weekend against Marywood and Maritime!

Click here to read our sports information release off the Hartwick Athletics Website.

HCWLax 3-0; first time since 1997

The Hartwick Women’s Lacrosse team improves to 3-0 after an undefeated weekend at Wright Stadium. The two wins over Marywood University (Scranton, PA) and SUNY Maritime (Throggs Neck, NY)  also helped bump the Hawks to a 16^th place ranking on Laxpower.com among all the remaining 208 DIII teams.

Eleven of the team’s 18 players helped net  47 points (37 goals and 10 assists) through the victories. The Hawks were led by freshman, Brittany McCabe, who collected eight goals and three assists on the team’s perfect weekend. Junior captain, Brittany LaVaute, chipped in six goals and two assists, picked up three groundballs and caused five turnovers, while fellow junior classmate, Hannah Kennedy, came off the bench on Friday scoring two goals and helping on another. Saturday Kennedy started and contributed three goals and an assist to cap her weekend. Sophomore, Ryan McGovern, was pivotal for the blue on Saturday with her three goals, one assist, one draw control and caused turnover.  Emily Walsh, Erin Doyle, Ali Sisco, Erica Scicchitano, Aly Davis and Meg Luce all collected at least one goal and/or assist through the team’s wins.

On defense, two-year captain, Bianca Gianfrate, picked up seven groundballs and caused five turnovers to protect the Hawks’ cage Friday and Saturday. The other members of Gianfrate’s defensive unit, senior Jessica Kenna, sophomore Lindsay Zweigenhaft, and freshmen duo Morgan Galipeau and Kiersten Racela all picked up groundballs to aid Hartwick’s transition game. Sophomore Kate O’Shea caused a turnover in transition.

Senior goalkeeper, Jen Kaye, was huge for the Hawks especially on Friday night. Even though our defense gave up 17 free-position shots, Kaye only let in six of those shots. She finished the game with 13 saves (84%), four groundballs and caused one turnover. Riding her win from the day before, Kaye, a former midfielder stopped three Privateer shots before taking the field, causing a turnover and scoring a goal. Freshman Grace Suttell, defended the pipes when Kaye was on the field and only let in one goal.

We had a fun and warm tailgate after our game against SUNY Maritime with player’s families and a handful of recruits who visited for the weekend.

We will chase our fourth win on Wednesday at Wells College.  

The sports information game recaps for Hartwick’s games against the Marywood University Pacers and the SUNY Maritime Privateers can be found off the Hartwick athletic website here.