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2012 TNLAX TEAM NAMED:
Class of 2013: Tate Bailey (JPII), Caitlin Dryer (Ravenwood), Liz Edwards (JPII), Lauren Elcan (Ensworth), Natalie Emery (Briarcrest), Hope Herline (Brentwood), Rachael Smith (St. Georges), Casey Sterrett (JPII), Evelyn Southard (JPII) Class of 2014: Jodie Anderson (Cookeville), Mackenzie Brown (Brentwood), Shay Brown (Houston), Lillian Bennett (Houston), Daniella Cantu (Houston), Liz Curtis (Harpeth Hall), Erin Gleeson (Franklin), Abby Looper (Cookeville), Molly McCullough (Hutchison), Sandy Smith (Hutchison), Kit Sommi (Farragut), Alex Swisher (Beech), Riley Upchurch (Cookeville), Rachel West (Brentwood), Ashley Wren (Webb) Class of 2015: Bailey Cline (Ravenwood), Abby Evans (Ravenwood), Abigail Fuller (Houston), Katie Gleeson (Franklin), Allie Rose Gregg (Harpeth Hall), Anna Hooper (Ensworth), Tara Lang (Harpeth Hall), Rachael Leonard (JPII), Mackenzie Minnick (Ensworth), Grace Pollock (Harpeth Hall) Class of 2016: Cate Elcan (Ensworth), Isabella Johnston (Ensworth), Grace Lascara (St. Joseph's), Isabel Reeve (Ensworth)
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**CONGRATULATIONS to our First Team US Lacrosse Regional All Americans: Mary Leonard (Pope John Paul II) and Olivia Reeve (Harpeth Hall) **
**TNLAX Players selected for All State: Natalie Emery, Sara Bowman, Gina Lambiase, Madison Browder. Alumni: Mary Leonard, Mary Patterson, Margaret Patterson, Jaymie Cox, Katie Ezell, Meredith Lang, Cicily Hummer, Wallace Morgan, Olivia Reeve, Jarrett Miller and Louisa Boyd!
** TNLAX Players selected for All Region: Gina Lambiase, Maddie Cron, Hope Herline, Madison Browder, Casey Sterrett, Margaret Andrews, Lauren Elcan, Sara Bowman, Lucy Fox, Rachel Harrison, Lizzy Jones, Cheyenne Bray, Natalie Emery. Alumni - Katie Ezell, Jarrett Miller, Cicily Hummer, Mary Leonard, Meredith Lang, Olivia Reeve, Wallace Morgan, Louisa Boyd, Margaret and Mary Patterson!
**2011 Team Named -- we are excited to have a roster of 30 players this season! Check out the roster! We have players representing the following schools: Baylor (1), Beech (1), Brentwood (5), Briarcrest (1), Collierville (1), Ensworth (4), Franklin (4), Harpeth Hall (3), Hendersonville (2), Pope John Paul II (3), Ravenwood (1), University School Nashville (2), St. George's (1)
** We are excited to announce that so far the following 2011 players have committed to play lacrosse in college:
Mary Leonard - Davidson College - Division I
Olivia Reeve - American University - Division I
Jaymie Cox - Howard University - Division I
Jarrett Miller - Marymount University - Division III
**Other TNLAX graduates are heading to University of Tennessee, University of Georgia, Notre Dame, Southern Methodist University
HARRISONBURG, Va., August 5, 2011 - James Madison University will induct six people in its 2011 class for the JMU Athletics Hall of Fame, the school announced today. Among the inductees are former student-athletes Eileen Arnaldo (field hockey), Mike Cawley (football), Curtis Keaton (football), Megan Riley (lacrosse), Aimee Vaughan Sharp (women's soccer and lacrosse) and the late Jason Long (cross country/track and field). The ceremony will take place on Thursday, September 29, as part of JMU's Homecoming Weekend activities, with the group also being recognized at the Oct. 1 home football game against Richmond.
Riley was a four-year starter on the Lacrosse team from 1996-99, starting in all 72 games played by the Dukes over that span. She led JMU to two CAA Championships while earning four All-South Region honors, three All-CAA honors and many other individual accomplishments while setting almost as many JMU records.
In 1996, she led the Dukes to a 9-8 record, good for fourth in the CAA, and took the Dukes to the conference semifinals. JMU was ranked as high as sixth by the Intercollegiate Women's Lacrosse Coaches Association (IWLCA) and finished eighth. Riley scored 22 goals and tallied assists. She was named Second Team All-South Region and was the CAA Rookie of the Year. That year she was selected to the Virginia I and then to the South I amateur lacrosse teams.
In 1997, Riley led the Dukes to a 13-5 record, finishing third in the CAA and earning a national ranking as high as third by the IWLCA. The team went on the win the CAA Tournament to earn a berth in the NCAA playoffs. She scored 30 goals and 25 assists totaling 55 points. Riley garnered First Team All-CAA and All-South Region honors. She also tied for 14th among all NCAA players in assists per game (1.39).
As a junior in 1998, Riley and the Dukes finished second in the CAA with an 11-8 record. The Dukes were runner-up in the CAA Tournament and earned an at-large NCAA spot, advancing to the second round. Riley scored 47 goals to go with 35 assists to earn her second consecutive First Team All-CAA and All-South honors. She collected IWLCA/US Lacrosse First Team All-America honors, U.S. Lacrosse All America honorable mention accolades and was selected to the U.S. National developmental squad. Her 82 points and 35 assists established school records, and she finished the season ranked ninth nationally in points per game (4.32) and tenth in assists (1.84).
Riley led the Dukes to another CAA Championship and regular season first-place finish in 1999 as JMU again reached the NCAA second round. She topped her own school records with 93 points on 52 goals and 41 assists. She earned her third consecutive First Team All-CAA and First Team All-South awards as well as being named CAA Tournament MVP and claiming IWLCA First Team All-America laurels. Riley once again earned U.S. Lacrosse All America honorable mention, was named as the North/South Senior All-Star Game MVP and was crowned as CAA Player of the Year. Riley made the U.S. National Women's Lacrosse developmental team and was voted as JMU's Female Athlete of the Year. The Dukes achieved their best ranking in program history, reaching as high as second by the IWLCA.
Riley established JMU career records for goals (151), assists (109), points (260) and points per game (3.611). At the time of her induction, she still held the career assists record while ranking fifth in goals and third in points. She shares the JMU high mark for season points with 93 and stands in fifth for season goals with 52. She holds the top two spots for season assists with 41 and 35. Riley was named to the CAA's 25th Anniversary Team.
U.S. Rallies Past Australia for FIL U19 Women's World Championship
Coach Megan Riley Clark aided the team to victory. Clark, a former member of the U.S. U19 women's national team (1995) and U.S. women's developmental team (1998-99), was the squad's offensive coach. Clark currently serves as head coach at Pope John Paul II (Tenn.) High School.
HANNOVER, Germany -- The U.S. captured its fourth consecutive Federation of International Lacrosse Under-19 Women's World Championship Saturday with a 14-11, come-from-behind win over archrival Australia. Team USA trailed 6-3 midway through the first half, but stormed back to complete its title run and end the tournament with a perfect 8-0 record.
"Just saying those words - world champions! You can't even get your mind around it and what that feels like," U.S. head coach Krystin Porcella said. "The excitement of being in the world championship was so close, and I think it got to us a bit in the beginning. We were nervous, but we were able to find ourselves."
Attackers Cortney Fortunato and Covie Stanwick led the Americans with three goals each. Midfielder Tatum Coffey (2g) won player of the match for her tough play between the lines on the fiercely contested draws.
"The bottom line was we had fun," Coffey said. "We knew we had it, so that's all it took. We trained for a year, and it came down to that moment."
Team USA had a relatively easy victory over Australia in the round robin, winning 20-7. The championship game was a different matter. Australia opened scoring on a crease roll by attacker Sarah Lowe (3g, 1a), and the two teams traded goals until the U.S. went up 3-2 on an unassisted tally from Mikeala Rix, who dodged through several attackers to give the Americans their first lead of the day.
Then Australia went on a four-goal run, keyed by Danielle Mollison (5g), that put the score at 6-3. Australian goalie Elizabeth Hinkes (8 saves) was a stalwart in the cage, frustrating the powerful American offense. With Australia working from behind the net and prowling the crease to devastating effect, the Americans were trailing for the first time in tournament play.
Rix stopped the Australian run with another unassisted goal, and Kelly McPartland (1g) scored on a free position to cut the deficit to 6-5. Mollison added another goal on an assist from Lowe, but Brigid Smith scored on a free position and Stanwick beat Hinkes on a bounce shot to make the score 7-7 at the half.
"Looking at the score and seeing it was 7-7, I thought, 'Man, we've got some work to do,'" Porcella said.
In the second half, the Americans went to work. The defense switched to a high-pressure look that limited the Australian attack, and Duryea came alive, making seven of her nine saves.
"They scored seven goals on me before I got a save. We'd never experienced that," Duryea said. "The biggest thing is having a short memory. You go out in the second half and it's a brand new game. We started to have more fun."
The Americans struggled on the draw, winning only 11 of 27 attempts, but thanks to eight caused turnovers, they had enough possessions to go on a five-goal run that gave them a 12-8 lead that they never relinquished.
Australia fought until the final possession, though. Lowe scored on an outside shot to cut the American lead to 14-11 with 2:14 to play. Midfielder Darcy Justice Allen (2g) won the final draw and got the ball to Lowe, whose shot was stopped by Duryea. Mollison tried to press Duryea and stepped in the crease, resulting in a free possession for the goalkeeper. But then the Americans were whistled for an offsetting foul - too many players on the field - and instead of a free position for Duryea, it was a toss between Mollison and defender Alyssa Blevins. Mollison won the toss, and Australia had two shots in the last minute - one a pipe, one a save by Duryea - but the Americans held on for the win. The game is another storied chapter in the history of one of lacrosse's greatest rivalries, with the Americans besting the Australians for the fourth straight time in five meetings in this FIL U19 gold medal game.
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Women's Division National Tournament is a tournament for high school varsity level players in grades 9-11, that are affiliated with a high school and playing in the high school spring season. This is one of the largest women's lacrosse events in the nation. The top 20 players from Tennessee will form the Southeast TN team for the National Tournament. 15 of the 20 selected to play in the WDNT are TNLAX players. Congratulations to Carol Allen, Margaret Andrews, Sara Bowman, Madison Browder, Liz Curtis, Lauren Elcan, Natalie Emery, Rachel Harrison, Hope Herline, Liz Jones, Katie King, Gina Lambiase, Ali Little, Keely Shearer, Rachael Smith and Casey Sterret will be an alternate.
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Megan Clark named US U19 Assistant Coach
BALTIMORE - US Lacrosse has announced the U.S. U19 women's national team coaching staff. Carter Abbott, Megan Clark and Jennifer Pfeiffer will serve as assistant coaches,
joining recently named head coach, Krystin Porcella. Sarah Aschenbach will serve as team manager for the U.S. 19 women's national lacrosse team.
 "Each coach and staff member selected has great dedication to the sport of lacrosse, to the U19 age group and to US Lacrosse," said Krystin Porcella, head coach of the U.S. U19 women's national team. "I look forward to bringing the individual talents of each coach together to form a unified coaching staff and accomplish our goal of winning the 2011 FIL World Cup. The next step is to select the best players in the United States and begin our training."
Abbott, a 2010 US Lacrosse New Jersey Chapter Hall of Fame inductee, has been a high school coach for 12 seasons and hit her 100th career win in 2008. Abbott currently serves as head coach at Suffield (Conn.) Academy. She is active in various roles of US Lacrosse serving as Women's Division National Tournament (WDNT) selector, was a member of the All-American selection committee, and was a presenter at the 2005 US Lacrosse National Convention. Abbott had a successful career as a player at Princeton (1994-97) and was a member of the U.S. women's developmental team (1995-96).
Clark, a former member of the U.S. U19 women's national team (1995) and U.S. women's developmental team (1998-99), will be the squad's offensive coach. Clark currently serves as head coach at Pope John Paul II (Tenn.) High School and strength and conditioning coach for the high school's girls' basketball program. She also serves as owner and head coach of the TNLAX club lacrosse program, a travel team for top high school lacrosse players in Tennessee. Prior to Pope John Paul II, Clark served as assistant women's lacrosse coach Vanderbilt (Tenn.) (2002-2009) and Johns Hopkins (Md.) (2000-2002).
Pfeiffer joins the U.S. U19 women's national team as the goalie coach. Pfeiffer, a former goal keeper at St. Mary's College of Maryland (2001-04), currently serves as goalie coach for TEAM I-Lax, a Maryland travel team. She also served as assistant coach at Perry Hall (Md.) High School (2005) and is currently a teacher at Sandy Plains Elementary School (Md.).
Aschenbach, a former player at Washington and Lee (Va.) University (1991-1995) and Stone Ridge Country Day (Md.) School (1987-1991), will join the U.S. U19 women's national team program as the team's manager. Aschenbach currently serves as head women's varsity lacrosse coach at The Connelly School of the Holy Child (Md.). She has also coached teams in the US Lacrosse WDNT, served as co-coordinator of the regional WDNT tryouts and served as chair of the US Lacrosse High School All-American selection committee as part of the US Lacrosse Women's Division Coaches Council.
"US Lacrosse is thrilled with these selections," said Nathaniel Badder, U.S. national teams program director. "Their breath of experiences as players and coaches, both domestically and internationally, will undoubtedly elevate the team's competiveness. And, having coaches from a variety of geographic regions will bring a nice assortment of styles to the staff."
The U.S. U19 women's national team will compete in the 2011 Federation of International Lacrosse World Championship in Gottingen, Germany. In 2007, Team USA won the gold at the quadrennial event, beating Australia 18-3 in Peterborough, Ontario.
US Lacrosse is the national governing body for men's and women's lacrosse, and is the parent organization of the U.S. men's and women's national lacrosse teams. deBeer Lacrosse is the official exclusive equipment and apparel supplier to the U.S. women's national teams program.
Link: http://www.uslacrosse.org/TopNav/NewsandMedia/PressReleases/U19WomensStaffNamed.aspx
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