Girls on MDIA teams

by **MinesGoallie45** on Fri Feb 18, 2005 3:40 am

I was wondering how many teams in the MDIA have girls playing on them?

Durring the fall we had a girl as the backup goallie and she was really good but decided that Mines wasnt for her and transfered out, but was deffently a solid player.

So, anyone else?

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by **Gregg Pathiakis** on Fri Feb 18, 2005 9:14 am

I didn't even realize it was allowed.

by **Sonny** on Fri Feb 18, 2005 9:18 am

Gregg Pathiakis wrote:I didn't even realize it was allowed.

The NCAA rulebook doesn't address the sex of said player(s).

by **SMSlax** on Fri Feb 18, 2005 11:35 am

I'm pretty iffy about some of the players on my team. We might have anywhere from 1-6 girls on the team.

by **CPLaxGM** on Fri Feb 18, 2005 12:01 pm

When we played Fort Lewis back in 2002 (in Tucson), they had a girl on the squad. Before the game, she was hanging out with the team and had a jersey on. I figured she was one of the player's girlfriend or the team manager. Then in warm-ups they started doing jumping jacks and shouting out the count, and I was thinking, "d#$n - someone on that team has a really high voice." Finally the light bulb went off in my head. I had never seen a girl on an opposing team, and I was wondering how I should deal with it from a coaching standpoint. I don't think she actually got on the field that day, but I think she did play against Michigan State the next day. The crazy thing was, she was no burly woman, she was pretty cute.

That's the only time I have seen a female on an MDIA team in my 15 years or so of being around the game. Although when I first started playing at Cal Poly, we had the goalie from the women's field hockey team come out to practice once in awhile. She never played on the team, but she was probably better than our goalie at the time.

Marc Lea
CP Lacrosse

by **JRA** on Fri Feb 18, 2005 12:16 pm

I can't remember the Ft. Lewis girls name but she played attack, was in about 5-7 mins of the game. This was 2002. Instead of hitting her, I think our defense just hit on her.

by **CSUalum32** on Fri Feb 18, 2005 12:17 pm

before i transferred to CSU i tried to start a team at wyoming. didnt really work cause we only had about 10 players, 4 of which who knew how to play. we had a girl play attack for us, she was a D-1 transfer from back out east who came to UW for her major. she was probly the best person we had at attack. we came down to CSU for a "pickup" game, alex probly remembers that game, i quit playing goalie for the UW at about half time (score something like 15-0, it was bad) and i think our female attackmen had 3 of our teams 4 shots on goal.

by **Kyle Berggren** on Fri Feb 18, 2005 12:21 pm

We played a local college that had a girl on their team. We were up by about 8, and a friend of mine had her guarding him... He backed out and called an ISO, to this day, he's never lived it down.

by **Sonny** on Fri Feb 18, 2005 12:27 pm

I played in a fall tournament in the mid 90's at the Univ. of Kentucky. Earlham College was there from Indiana and they had a girl playing attack for them. She didn't touch the ball much. But one time she got the balll on a clear and all of the guys on the opposing team were screaming "hit the girl, kill the girl." It was pretty humorous. Guess you had to be there.

by **Danny Hogan** on Fri Feb 18, 2005 12:32 pm

USF had a girl some time between 2000-2002. I dont' remember her playing much though.

My HS team had a girl for our first 2 years then the girls team started up. She absolutely dominated girls lacrosse, somewhere around 7 goals a game and ended up playing D1 b ball in college.

by **bste_lax** on Fri Feb 18, 2005 2:56 pm

Interesting.......Cornell College had a girl when I helped them out at end of last Spring. I talked to their coach, former Iowa player, this past fall who said they were told that she couldn't play by someone within USL MDIA.

by **Tim Gray** on Fri Feb 18, 2005 3:04 pm

The US Coast Gaurd Academy has on 2 seperate occasions had a girl goalie. I actually scored my first collegiate goal on one of them.

by **robinetteja** on Fri Feb 18, 2005 3:21 pm

The girl who played on the Fort Lewis team in 2002 was named Daisy. She came from a CO highschool that did not have girls team and played on the mens team there. FLC did not have girls team either, and she preferred boys lax over girls anyway. When she asked if she could play I said sure, thinking she would get around the rest of the team and decide that she didn't want to hang around a bunch of rude, obnoxious lax players. She ended up being one of the most dedicated players, never missing a practice, and traveled to all the games, even though she knew there was a chance she may not play. She actually did get into quite a few games, and wasn't that bad. She also baked great cookies for the team on before every away trip. I still invite her back in the summer to play for the FLC Alum team in our tournament. She hasn't come back to play yet though. We also had a girl named Meg play for the Fort in 1994/95, before we were USLMDIA. Right now we have a girl that wants to play on our newly formed boys Highschool team in Durango.

by **ZagGrad** on Fri Feb 18, 2005 4:02 pm

During my first year at Gonzaga (their 2nd year as a program), we had a freshman girl come out who had played girls lax in high school. She stuck with us through fall ball and took some really viscious hits--I'm talking hits that would shake up some dudes. She wasn't butch either--long blonde hair, skinny, not bad looking. After fall ball, we only saw her at our parties.

by **Danny Hogan** on Fri Feb 18, 2005 11:05 pm

oh yeah and my junior year at UF we had this swedish kid come out who had only played girls lacrosse in sweden. He didn't last long.