Roanoke College attacker Lilly Blair garnered a pair of showcase awards as she was named the ODAC Offensive Player of the Year by the league's head coaches and the ODAC/Virginia Farm Bureau Insurance Scholar-Athlete of the Year by the conference's athletic communications personnel. College Cup send-off for the Cougs! Roanoke College attacker Lilly Blair garnered a pair of showcase awards as she was named the ODAC Offensive Player of the Year . FOREST, Va. - Graduate student Emma Stiffler has been named women's lacrosse ODAC Offensive Player of the Week as announced by the league Monday afternoon. The No. Softball Swimming Tennis Volleyball Baseball Batting Center Baseball Men's Basketball Women's Basketball Football Men's Lacrosse Women's Lacrosse Softball Men's Soccer Women's Soccer Women's Swimming Men's & Women's Tennis Volleyball Baseball Men's Basketball Women's Basketball Men's Cross Country . April 26, 2023 --- Washington and Lee University last lost an ODAC regular season game more than a decade ago as the Generals command the top seed in the upcoming ODAC Women's Lacrosse Tournament following a 10th straight unbeaten run (8-0) through their league slate. She has scored in 23 goals and tallied an assist throughout the season, including a dominant five-goal game against Denison on March 25. Rovegno is the team leader and ranks fifth in the conference with 78 draw controls. We ask that you consider turning off your ad blocker so we can deliver you the best experience possible while you are here. 2023 ODAC Women's Lacrosse Tournament Bracket - ODAC The Generals own a 5.79 goals against average, which ranks fifth in the country. Santa Clara coach Jerry Smith, in his 35th season, has watched Rockwoods career unfold from the beginning, and especially after the Cougars joined the WCC in 2011 and began competing against the nationally prominent Broncos on a regular basis. - Davis bolsters the backline alongside Held. Posted: May 10, 2023. She also leads the team in draw controls with 57 on the season. BYU women's soccer coach Jennifer Rockwood finally reached the top of at 4 pm ET, Natalie Held - C2C Defensive Player of the Year, #11 Riley Hartman | #25 Natalie Held | #6 Emma Skoglund | #44 Kaitlyn Hunsinger | #9 Leah Vilov, #6 Emma Skoglund | #25 Natalie Held | #44 Kaitlyn Hunsinger | #32 Madeline Davis | #11 Riley Hartman. Blair was named the 2023 ODAC/VA Farm Bureau Scholar-Athlete of the Year, the second consecutive year she has won the top academic award in women's lacrosse in the conference. - Hunsinger also enjoyed a breakout year in her senior season in the cage. Her teams are great every year. She is right behind her with 20 caused turnovers and 24 ground balls on the season. / Duxbury) andAllie Schwab(Bryn Mawr, Pa. / Harriton)were named to the Preseason First Team. Soccer Camps - BYU Sports Camps (Restricted to 2024, 2025, 2026, 2027 High School Classes). Blair, a senior from Salem, Va., shines both on and off the field for Roanoke. The NCAA announced more than 450 selections of host sites for preliminary rounds and final sites of championships in Divisions I, II and III, with most to be held from 2022-23 through 2025-26.. In 2022, senior Allie Schwab led the Generals in both assists (37) and points (77), and she ranked second with 40 goals. BYU women's soccer coach Jennifer Rockwood is leading the Cougars into the College Cup the Final Four for the first time in her 27-year tenure at BYU. On the field, Blair is a three-time All-ODAC honoree with a pair of first team nods and a third team selection as a first-year in 2019. Off the field and out of the classroom, Van Belle is involved with the Outing Club, Generals' Leadership Academy and with Greek life. Towson women's lacrosse coach Sonia LaMonica has stepped down to fill a vacancy for the same role at Virginia, both schools announced Wednesday afternoon. In the classroom, Blair maintains a 4.00 grade point average as a triple major in mathematics, economics, and actuarial science. BYU womens soccer coach Jennifer Rockwood is leading the Cougars into the College Cup the Final Four for the first time in her 27-year tenure at BYU. Each team, however, is larger than in past, allowing for greater representation for the league's best players while maintaining the same overall number of honorees. W&L defeated Roanoke 11-5 in last year's ODAC Championship contest and looks to lift the trophy for the 13th consecutive year and first of the Coleman Era. She has only been shutout once in 18 games played this season, registering four or more points in 11 games. She is a member of Roanoke's chapter of Phi Beta Kappa as well as Pi Mu Epsilon (math) and Omicron Delta Epsilon (economics) national honor societies. The Sea Gulls took on one of the toughest schedules in the country and came away with six ranked wins, including five top-10 wins. To view the complete preseason All-America teams from the organizations, click the following links: USA Lacrosse Magazine | W&L Release. We ask that you consider turning off your ad blocker so we can deliver you the best experience possible while you are here. The Maroons edged Shenandoah University (82 points) for the second place position by seven points. FOREST, Va. ---Washington and Lee University, winners of 12 straight ODAC titles, earned an ODAC-best 10 all-conference honors plus two special individual awards to headline the 2022 All-ODAC Women's Lacrosse Awards. Athletic director Carla Williams made the announcement Wednesday . Randolph-Macon College attacker Rianna Lowery received ODAC Rookie of the Year laurels. Attacker Lilly Fowler is the second straight ODAC Rookie of the Year for Randolph-Macon College. This season's group of 39 stars includes 24 players that earned All-ODAC honors in 2022. RC struck first with a Grace Koutouskis unassisted goal, the first of her four on the day. ODAC Offensive Player of the Year: Lilly Blair, Sr., A, Roanoke Grove spent fourteen seasons as head coach of the Griffins over two different spans. April 29, 2023 Final. At the outdoor ODAC Championships the Pennsylvania native placed first in javelin and set a PR in the high jump for second place. 6 Franklin & Marshall Diplomats on Alston Parker Watt field. Coleman and Rovegno Headline VaSID Women's Lacrosse College Division All-State Awards, Women's Lacrosse Voted IWLCA Chesapeake Region Coaching Staff of the Year, Women's Lacrosse Places Four on IWLCA All-America Teams, Taylor and Wise Tabbed Academic All-District. The No. I have been saying maybe one or two more years for probably about 15 to 18 years. Twenty of this year's honorees earned all-conference distinction in 2021. May 1 will kick off the ODAC Women's Lacrosse Tournament's first round. Generals Claim 13th Consecutive ODAC Women's Lacrosse Title score Women's Lacrosse vs Averett April 29, 2023 4:30 pm. The final regular season game is Saturday, April 29 and will celebrate the program's four seniors as the team welcomes No. History All . (); : Blair, a fifth-year from Salem, Va., is now just the fourth player to earn two ODAC/Virginia Farm Bureau Insurance Scholar-Athlete of the Year honors. ODAC * at. BYU football coach Kalani Sitake poses with members of the BYU womens soccer team prior to the team heading off to the NCAA College Cup, where the Cougars will face Santa Clara in the semifinals on Friday. A First Team All-ODAC and All-Region pick, as well as the 2022 ODAC Defensive Player of the Year, Rovegno also added two points on the offensive end with a goal and an assist.Attacker Hanna Bishop scored a team-high 56 goals lastseason for W&L, ranking third in the ODAC in that category, while adding 17 assists for a total of 73 points. Old Dominion Lacrosse Prospect Day | Richmond, Virginia That includes nearly all but four members of the 19-player All-ODAC First Team. For more information, visit the websites of any of the participating schools, or go to the ODAC's home on the Internet at www.odaconline.com. Her 56 goals scored were tied for the fifth-most in a season in program history, which helped land her on the USA Lacrosse Magazine Honorable Mention All-America team and IWLCA'sAll-America Third Team. Even last spring, when Santa Clara was on its way to its second national title (the 2020 season was played last spring, due to COVID-19), the Broncos fell 2-1 to the Cougars in a nonconference match at home. Women's Lacrosse - ODAC Salisbury has reached 13 NCAA semifinals and nine NCAA finals and has come away with four national championships (2010, 13, 14, '21). "Avery has collected a lot of experience at different levels in such a short amount of time. The title was the United States 11th overall in the competition, its third on home soil, and first back-to-back championship since 2002. The 2023 Salisbury women's lacrosse team is playing in its 20th consecutive NCAA Division III Tournament and 24th overall. In the Championship, she made nine stops and allowed just five goals. Shane Koppens - Assistant Coach, Offensive Coordinator - Men's Lacrosse Blackmon,arrived in Lexington in January 2023 with a wide variety of lacrosse coaching experiencessince graduating from Georgetown College (Ky.) in 2019. ODAC Announces 2022 All-ODAC Women's Lacrosse Awards Throughout her career she has scooped up 35 ground balls and caused 34 turnovers. 2 Generals (18-1), who have made 22 consecutive appearances in the championship game, won their 13th straight title thanks to a 3-0 and 4-0 run in the second half and pulled away from the No. For her career, Blair has racked up 310 points and 242 goals, both currently inside the ODAC's all-time top-10. The goalkeeper has logged over 830 minutes in goal and tallied 113 saves for a 51.6 save percentage and a 7.57 goals against average. Schwab has contributed at least one point in all 19 games this season powered by 33 goals and 25 assists for 58 points. FERRUM, Virginia -- Ferrum College picked up an Old Dominion Athletic Conference (ODAC) women's lacrosse win tonight at home Guilford College, winning 16-8 at W.B. 12 York. The women's lacrosse awards look a little different this year with two all-league teams instead of three. We ask that you consider turning off your ad blocker so we can deliver you the best experience possible while you are here. Rounding out the women's lacrosse leadership group is defender Sam Van Belle. The Generals return an arsenal of highly decorated women for the 2023 season. Blackmon's individual statistics helpedgarner four NAIA First Team All-America awards and was named All-Conference each year in addition to being named NWLL Conference Player and Rookie of the Year. 5/6/2023 7:00 am Women's Tennis NCAA Women's Tennis Second Round: Emory vs. TBD Second round action of the 2023 NCAA Women's Tennis Tournament at Washington and Lee University in Lexington, Va. / Bronxville) was named to the Third Teamas determined through USA Lacrosse Magazine staff and contributor consideration with input from NCAA coaches. I have had the opportunity to coach some amazing athletes over the years and we really have had some fantastic teams, some teams that have been really close to getting to this spot, and we havent quite gotten there until now. Blackmon's experience in the midfield, the draw and offensive schemes will be a positive addition to our program and we are excited to get started.". 16 Roanoke women's lacrosse team honored its two seniors prior to today's ODAC contest with Bridgewater, before getting the 23-2 win over the Eagles. Roanoke would place three on the All-Tournament team: Blair, Chickering, and. During the three-week span, W&L will travel to play at No. Records:Maroons 15-4 | Generals 17-2 Senior Lilly Blair leads seven Maroons on the 2023 All-ODAC Women's Lacrosse teams, as announced by the league office today. BYU has made the College Cup, the Final Four in women's soccer, for the first time in school history and will meet Santa Clara on Friday in a national semifinal. ODAC/Va. ODAC ODAC/Va. (Bronxville,N.Y. (); : Virginia hires Towson Sonia LaMonica to lead women's lacrosse program She tallied 59 total draw controls and 30 caused turnovers in the transition game. Since then, Salisbury has won nine games in a row, including the final seven of the regular season to earn the top seed in the Coast-to-Coast Athletic Conference (C2C) Tournament. Roberts, Petersheim Named to All-ODAC Second Team Hanna Bishop (Bronxville,N.Y. The Blue and White will travel east over Washington Break and will play CNU on Wednesday, February 22 (3:30 p.m. start time) and then host No. On the defensive side she has caused 24 turnovers and collected 28 ground balls. At CMU, Blackmon led all the skill, practice and game plan implementation for the draw unit and assisted with the offensive strategies and development. She has also added seven caused turnovers on the defensive end and has collected 32 draw controls this season. To have had that consistency over a 27-year career that she has had is just remarkable. She is seventh in ground balls with 46, and contributes to the ball possession game with 83 draw controls, good for sixth in the league with SU's Re. She earned C2C Tournament MVP after she totaled a career-high six caused turnovers in the C2C Championship and also chipped in a goal on the offensive side. United States wins 2023 World Lacrosse Men's Championship The BYU women's racquetball team has won nine national . This past summer, the Bryn Mawr, Pa. native interned at Penn Medicine, and on campus she is involved in volunteering with CASA and the Trevor Foundation. ODAC Defensive Player of the Year:Eugenie Rovegno, Jr., D, Washington and Lee While Central Michigan was searching for a new head coach, Blackmon served as the interim head coach and assisted with the transition. On the field she has tallied 31 appearances, 21 ground balls, 10 caused turnovers and one draw control from the defensive position. Her 37 assists were the second-highest total in the ODAC, while her 77 points were fourth in the league and also marked the third-highest total in a season in program history. Under the direction of Myers, the Cavaliers never . Come and experience what a day of lacrosse is like with our ODAC coaches! Women's Lacrosse Earns Four USA Lacrosse All-America Honors Don't forget to become a fan of the ODAC on Facebook and follow @odacathletics on Twitter and Instagram. 5/10/2023 11:45:00 AM, 2023 ALL-ODAC WOMEN'S LACROSSE AWARDS 2022 ODAC Women's Lacrosse All Tournament Team: Lynchburg: Patricia Rogers, Nicki Santora, Roanoke: Lilly Blair, Kyleigh Chickering, Addison Schmidt, Washington and Lee: Hanna Bishop, AllieDoyle, Katherine Faria, EugenieRovegno, AllieSchwab, 2023 Roanoke College. She is also a member of the National Society of Leadership and Success. (); : All rights reserved. Coach of the Year: Jan Hathorn Player of the Year: Nancy Mitchell Coach of the Year: Jan Hathorn Coach of the Year: Jan Hathorn Coach of the Year: Neil Cunningham Rookie of the Year: Gina Von Sternberg Coach of the Year: Neil Cunningham Rookie of the Year: Maggie Sutherland Player of the Year: Anne Van Devender ODAC/Farm Bureau Scholar-Athlete: . That includes nine members of the 2022 All-ODAC First Team. The reigning ODAC Champions, for the 12th consecutive year, have three All-Americans and nine All-ODAC honorees representing the Blue and White on Alston Parker Watt Field this season. The Generals and Jumbos will meet in Sparks, Md. In her free time, Wise volunteers at a local elementary school throughout the academic year and worked as a guide in Alaska this summer at the Wrangell-St. Elias National Park and preserve. Washington and Lee's attacked Allie Schwab was also a first team choice in 2021. The official 2023 Women's Lacrosse schedule for the Bridgewater College . Browse photos of the 2023 World Lacrosse Championships, including the gold medal game between the United States and Canada on Saturday, July 1, 2023, in San Diego. ODAC/Va. The Maroons would look to turn the tables on the Generals that defeated them in this matchup last season. - Piechowiak has had a breakout year in her junior campaign. From Glen Ridge, N.J., senior Jenny Lisovicz was elected a team co-captain for the 2023 season. 6 Franklin & Marshall, No 12. I have worked pretty much my whole career to get to this point and I am just going to try to enjoy it and not to put too much pressure on us. In the classroom, Schwab is majoring in cognitive and behavioral science, she has been named Academic All-ODAC, a W&L Scholar-Athlete, and to the IWLCA Academic Honor Roll on multiple occasions. ); : The Generals earned the ODAC's automatic bid into the NCAA Championships and will find out their tournament destination and opponents on Monday morning at 10:30 a.m. on the, Coleman and Rovegno Headline VaSID Women's Lacrosse College Division All-State Awards, Women's Lacrosse Voted IWLCA Chesapeake Region Coaching Staff of the Year, Women's Lacrosse Places Four on IWLCA All-America Teams, Taylor and Wise Tabbed Academic All-District. Christopher Newport University, W&L's second opponent, is listed as receiving votes in the opening poll. 2 Tufts (March 18), and Mary Washington (March 22). In addition to extending a conference winning streak that spans the past decade, W&L hoisted its ODAC record 23rd women's lacrosse trophy last weekend. A 2022 First Team All-ODAC and All-Region performer, the junior attacker already has 102 goals and 126 points in 35 games across her two seasons in the Blue and White. 2021 ODAC Men's Lacrosse Schedule Filter schedule by selecting a team name from the list All Teams Bridgewater Ferrum Guilford Hampden-Sydney Lynchburg Randolph Randolph-Macon Roanoke Shenandoah Virginia Wesleyan Washington and Lee