The Goucher Women's Lacrosse Team just finished a successful Fall Ball Season. NCAA regulations limit us to just 16 practice dates during the Fall, so we practiced three times a week for a total of 5 weeks. The team also competed in the Diane-Geppi Aikens 5K Race to show support for a former Loyola women's lacrosse coach, who did so much for our sport and for female athletes in general before losing her battle to brain cancer.
The seniors also ran captain practices for the girls, when the team worked on fitness together, then played fun games of dodge ball, kick ball, and basketball. One thing we learned from our last day of practice, it's a good thing we're not collegiate volleyball players!
This Fall Ball, we focused on individual skills. We perfected our dodges, worked on individual defensive skills and emphasized the importance of dictating our attackers' movements. Another point of emphasis was fitness. As we are a small team this year, we want to make sure we are more fit than any of our competitors so we can outrun anyone on the field. We taught the girls ways to work on specific split times, so we can all improve our mile and .5 mile times for our fitness testing in February.
Now the challenge for our G-Lax players is to take these individual skills that we emphasized during Fall Ball and to continue perfecting them in the off-season, so we can be ready to move to more challanging team concepts once our pre-season begins in February. We are already looking forward to our 2011 official season!
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