[NU Sports] Women's Lacrosse Coach Establishing a Legacy -

[Alan Abrahamson]

Frankly, the note that bothered me in the story was that the women's
players weren't allowed drinks in the weight room. Hello?


On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 12:02 PM, Roy S. Lamberton <rstetson at capps-assoc.com
> wrote:

> I know they've played the last couple of NCAA Women's Lacrosse Finals in
> some big stadiums
> -
>
> But even the championships in Baltimore - one of the national hotbeds of
> the sport - draw
> less than half the capacity of the places the games are played.
>
> Last year 8,011 turned out for the final out in Stony Brook, NY
> 9,782 for the 2010 Final in Towson MD,
> And 6,515 showed up for 2009 at the same location.
> They didn't show any attendance for 2008, or 2007.
> 2006 up in Boston attendance was 5,684.
>
> And this was for a championship game. The opening round game in 2011
> between Maryland and
> Navy at College Park (two local teams in the hotbed of Mid Atlantic
> LaCrosse) drew 646
> fans.
>
> Should more people come to the NU Women's Games? Yeah, sure, but right now
> even the teams
> in places known for Lacrosse don't draw big numbers.
>
> You'd love to see a couple of thousand fans in the stands on the lakeshore
> for an NU
> Lacrosse game, but we don't even fill Welsh-Ryan for Basketball with our
> own fans.
>
> rsl
>
>
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> However, I disagree with the author's rather negative assessment of fan
> support of the Lax
> team. It's all relative, of course. But at a school where we have trouble
> getting 30,000
> fans (and 4,000 students) for football, getting 1,000 or more (including
> hundreds of
> students) out to a Lax game is pretty impressive.
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