Women’s Lacrosse Takes Unique Path Back to NCAAS

via JU press release/website, by Scott Manze

Excerpt:

Early in the morning on Sunday, April 2, the Jacksonville University women’s lacrosse gathered in the Rock Lacrosse Center to discuss what had just taken place less than 24 hours before. A day earlier, JU fell at home to Liberty, a loss that was not only record-breaking, snapping a 22-game ASUN Conference winning streak and the first home conference set-back since 2010, but also turned out to be team-building. No coaches, that would come later. Just a team, digging-deep together to find themselves.

“We all came in here that Sunday, the whole team, and sat in this film room and we watched the entire game,” said graduate defensive stalwart Maddie Sturgell. “We spent three to four hours dissecting the entire game without the coaching staff, because we knew that it was not going to come from them, it was going to come internal, from our locker room, with help of the coaches.”

“I think that was a really telling moment that they were in this and that they were going to do everything that they could to ensure that nothing like that ever happened again,” said first year head coach Tara Singleton.

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