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USC finished with a 6-0 record in the shortened 2020 campaign, but it struggled on the draw. The Trojans lost the draw control battle in five of their six matchups and averaged a conference-low 11 per game. The Women of Troy also lost Kerrigan Miller and Kaeli Huff to the transfer portal, both of whom were important pieces on that draw circle in their four years in SoCal.
It looks like McDaniel may have solved that problem. At the very least, she could help lessen the blow of losing those two program staples. Her 13 draws were the most by any player in the Pac-12 in the first weekend of games and tied for the second-most in a single game among all players in the country.
Assistant Coaches: Kim Hillier, Greg Miceli, Kasey Mitchell
Head coach Joe Spallina was trying to figure out ways to shut down USC star Kaeli Huff when the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a global pandemic on March 11, 2020. Stony Brook canceled the game hours later, and the season was over the next day. It was a tough blow for a Seawolves team that beat Syracuse in the Carrier Dome to open the season and thought it had a legitimate shot at its first-ever national championship.
Flash forward 11 months. Huff is now a Seawolf, and she’ll play alongside Tewaaraton hopeful Ally Kennedy, who accepted the fifth year of eligibility in a heartbeat. Add in classmate and All-American Taryn Ohlmiller and a 13-player freshman class that Spallina calls his best ever, and you get a Stony Brook team that doesn’t expect to pick up where it left off last year it wants more.
Friday February 12th, 2021 9:00am
(Inside Lacrosse Photo: Dave Anderson)
“What is normal right now? Normal is, being able to adapt. Normal is feeling like there is some unknown, but walking out onto the field on gameday and seeing another opponent.”
That is what Jenny Levy told me on Monday afternoon. We were talking about No. 1. UNC’s season-opener against No. 10 James Madison, originally scheduled for Saturday. It would have been the seventh-straight year the two teams squared off to start the season.
On Wednesday, that game was postponed after “COVID-related protocols related to the JMU program,” according to a UNC press release.
The 2021 Division I Women s Lacrosse Season from A-to-Z
Mon Feb 8 2021 | Kenny DeJohn | College
We are mere days away from the opening day of the 2021 Division I women’s lacrosse season and it feels good to be back.
VCU and Old Dominion kick off the campaign on Friday at 1 p.m. Eastern. And while it’s thrilling to revel in the joys of a new beginning, we must remember (maybe more now than ever) that we shouldn’t project too far ahead.
In a college sports landscape still dealing with COVID-19 to varying degrees, nothing is guaranteed. Let’s enjoy what’s in store this weekend and take the rest as it comes.