Glad the women advanced. Next game is likely to be against the eventual National Champion Maryland. Turnovers will be a problem against a very skilled well coached team. See WSJ Friday about the Maryland juggernaut in Lacrosse on Men's and Women's teams. Sorry that it is a subscription link.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/marylan..._featured_pos1
Tillman wants the Terps to have high standards on and off the field, says senior defenseman Brett Makar. For breakfasts at a team hotel before a game: You better show up with pressed pants, belt on, with shineable shoes, and ‘look presentable,’ ” Makar says.
I ask Makar how Coach Tillman would react if one of his players wandered down for pancakes in pajama bottoms. He laughs.
“He doesn’t have to say anything.” Teammates would handle the fashion foul, he says.
If Tillman needs any further inspiration, he only has to knock on the door of the office next to his in College Park.
That’s where he’ll find Cathy Reese, the celebrated coach of the Maryland women, a legendary program that has won 14 national championships, five under Reese, who also won four straight as a Terps player in the mid-1990s.
Reese’s and Tillman’s teams pulled off the double in 2017, with the men’s and women’s teams winning NCAA titles. When Reese recently won her 300th game coaching, Tillman posted a tribute on Instagram: “Far and away the best lacrosse coach on our campus!”“
The success of that program, and the coaching staff, is really unparalleled,” says Sheehan Stanwick Burch, the former Georgetown women’s team star who now calls games on ESPN. “They’re on a different level.”