Last Dance

She started playing lacrosse in second grade, and played her final game as a grad student. It's been quite a ride, watching Elizabeth fall in love with lacrosse, fall out of love with it, and then work her way back to playing with complete and utter joy. We are so damn proud of her.

When it takes 6 NYU defenders to stop her....

Yapping it up with players from Yale during a lull in the game.

Her ability to play and teach/coach at the same time make a tremendous impact on the club team.

Leaving Zolad with good memories.

 

April Lacrosse

Elizabeth played her final club lacrosse games over the first few weeks in April. Both games were tough losses. There is a lot of bad blood between the NH and CCSU lacrosse teams and she just barely squeaked through that game without getting tossed out. The game against Bryant was must calmer, her only game of the season without a yellow card. We are hopeful that club rules allow for graduate students to play, so that she gets one more season but if not, she had a wonderful time playing with these girls.

It was freezing cold and pouring rain when they played CCSU.

When this girl couldn't stop Elizabeth, she just reached out and grabbed her shoulder as she went by - resulting in a yellow card and an 8 meter shot for Elizabeth (goal).

Elizabeth absolutely harassing the goalie, who was foolish enough to leave the crease.

On our way to Bryant!

March Lacrosse

Elizabeth's club lacrosse team had two games in March - their senior night against CCSU as well as a game against Yale. The CCSU game was great until the refs let it get out of control and then took over so completely that the game became a snooze fest and lasted far too long. The game against Yale was an exciting 7-6 loss in which Elizabeth had all 6 goals for New Haven and had the ball in her stick with the ability to tie up the game with less than a minute to go. Unfortunately, she was fouled hard but the refs "didn't notice anything" and so it was not to be. It's great to see New Haven's tiny club team hold their own against these much larger D1 schools. 

Years of playing high school lacrosse on a terrible grass field made Elizabeth uniquely situated to play on Yale's club fields. While everyone else (on both teams) was falling all over the place, she was completely at home.