Women's LAX 2023

WLax notched their first win of the season with a 20-14 victory over Bryant this afternoon in Smithfield RI.

It helps to be able to bring in about 25 recruits a year.

Boston U had the benefit of having 12.6 more scholarships than HC did at the time.


As for the military commitment, that is a recruitig disadvantage in some cases, but the Service Academies have more advantages than disadvantages:

1.  All students receive a monthly paycheck.
2.  Guaranteed job at graduation for all.
3.  Ability to bring in at least twice as many recruits as other schools.
4.  Full scholarship for everyone.  (In lacrosse, the average player gets less than 1/3 of an athletic scholarship at other schools.)
5.  Huge emphasis in the admissions process for very good athletes.
6.  Service commitment does not apply to student-athletes who have the opportunity to go pro.
7.   Athlete can leave after two years with no commitment.  Thus they get the benefit of two free years of education.   This is a big deal not only if they simply don't like Academy, but also if they improve a lot athletically and can earn a scholarship at another D1 school.

Our ladies tried to imitate our men's performance (vs. Dartmouth when down 12-0) against Quinnipiac today - Q scored the first 11 goals of the game enroute to 3 qtrs of garbage time and a 15-8 win
and they're not a very good team.
We're not ready for PL play which is a much higher level - Coach Belichick's results are predictable

I checked out the game stats … goholycross.com/sports/womens-lacrosse/stats/2023/harvard/boxscore/10328 … not going to win many games with 21 Turnovers, 37 fouls, 15 shots on goal and 10 Draw Controls… the game score is more likely attributable to a weaker Harvard team than better play.

Another season trending toward 5 or 6 wins after scheduling down replacing Brown with StoneHill (a 1st year program) and avoiding BC, Dartmouth, Yale, New Hampshire, Vermont, Siena and other higher level area teams. Current staff’s historic 33% winning percent over 7+ seasons should be of concern. goholycross.com/documents/2022/3/3/coach-misc.pdf

I know AWP is good but this score is an embarrassment- both the men’s and women’s teams surrendered 15 goals in the first half of their games today - that is cause for concern

AU outscored us 8-1 in the first qtr today and lead 9-3 at the half - our team is underperforming - might be decision no.2 for ADKH after men’s bball

AU seemed to hold back after taking a commanding 8-1 lead in the 1st Q … very close to a 3rd running clock in 10 games… expect running clocks against Navy and Loyola and perhaps Lehigh... 10 years (8 @ HC and 2 @ Wesleyan) and a career 30% win percentage… “might”? Or a foregone conclusion.

Yes it is -but I looked at the stats and BU dominated -with the exception of goal tending - we scored our 17 goals on 19 shots so the BU goalies made only 2 saves
Very weird but we’ll take it

Nice W, same as last season… team remains on track for 3 PL wins (3-6 or 33%) against the lower half of the league, the games against Colgate and Bucknell will impact the overall record, consistent with prior years and the historic results attainable by the staff.

The statistics can be found for all years, including the current from the PL website. patriotleague.org/stats.aspx?path=wlax&year=2023&.

With two-thirds of the season completed, in each statistical category, the team underperforms with the overall performance near the bottom of the PL. These results were against the weaker potion of the schedule (LIU, Stone Hill, UMass Lowell and BU).  The data should trend downward with games against stronger teams yet to be played (Loyola, Navy, Lehigh and Colgate).  The per game averages of 16 turnovers, 4 assisted goals and the least shots on goal, highlight the staff's objective inability at player evaluation, development and provide insight into the presence of factors attributable to the allocation of playing time and player positioning other than merit.