Captains!

As mentioned in the previous post, we have elected three players to be our Captains for the 2009 Season. Congratulations to Erin "E" Broderick, Liz "Voldemort" Zmijewski, and Kara "Empanada/Skadoosh" Borzillo! We can't wait until the Fall!

The President's Tea!

This past Sunday Stevens hosted the Accepted Students Reception. For everyone involved, this day is highly anticipated, especially because it involves free food and entertainment! As a member and tri-captain of the field hockey team, myself (Erin Broderick), Liz Zmijewski (a fellow tri-captain), and Allison Shields (a graduating captain) met our team’s incoming freshman in the Schaefer lobby. We had the opportunity to grab coffee, tea, and choose between an assortment of breakfast pastries and fruit while we got to know each other. Ten of our incoming freshman came to the event, including some who traveled 5 or more hours to get here! It’s really exciting to have so many new additions to our team. Each one of them has so much to offer.

We chatted until President Hal Raveche and a few of our peers gave speeches in Canavan arena and made plans to meet again at 4pm. This time our whole team participated in the meet and greet! We met outside of Walker Gymnasium, where the jazz band provided entertainment and hors d'oeuvres and desserts were served. I was really excited that there was sushi, it’s my favorite. I’m only disappointed I did not have a chance to make a trip to the chocolate fountain for chocolate covered strawberries.

What a way to celebrate the amazing class that Stevens accepted this year. The rain held out for a beautiful sunny day and the food and speeches were wonderful. The class of 2013 seem like they have a lot to offer. The reception provided the beginning of the excitement that I have for our field hockey program and our future. Now I only have to wait for August!

Post-Spring Update

Defensive corner!! (photo credit to my mom!)

So Drexel has come and gone. It was a great day, we really got to work out kinks on the field and play with the new self-start rule. Despite being blustery and chilly, it was a pretty nice day, no rain so we can't complain! The level of play was pretty tough at times, but we held our own very well! I was very proud of my ducks. After playing amongst ourselves for a month it was great to get out there and see what we do as one unit against other teams. At the end of the day I was just super excited for the fall because if we look that good now, we are going to be AWESOME next season!!

Speaking of this Fall....yesterday was Accepted Students day here at Stevens, and aside from getting yummy food (rumors of bacon wrapped scallops were TRUE!) we got to meet some of our incoming freshmen!! We have a great bunch of girls coming to join the team! Their personality and level of play is definitely going to make this Fall an exciting season! We can't wait!!!

-Liz

Drexel this saturday!!!

So, hopefully EVERYONE reading this knows that we will be playing at Drexel on Saturday!! If you read down a few posts you can see the schedule we will be playing. Everyone is getting super PUMPED! It is by far the highlight of my spring. We have been working hard to be able to compete and hold our ground with the high caliber of the DI schools that will be there, and we are looking AWESOME! Our volunteers have been coming out and playing with us (Shout out to Duncan, Daniel, Meiko, Megan, Dennis and Enriquo!) We have been fortunate enough to have later practices during the week so that our volunteers and seniors can come and play with us, even having enough to play full field with two FULL teams (including two goalies!) last week. Everyone is working hard at our team practices and individuals with coach, and the improvements can be seen in everyone! We are definitely going to give Rutgers, LaSalle and Drexel a run for their money this weekend. Hope to see all of our fans out supporting us and to see a sneak preview of how great we're going to be this fall! -Special shout out to Kara and Karen and the rest of the Women's Lacrosse team, who was recently ranked 13th in the IWLCA poll!! They have both had awesome seasons so far, Kara scored 3 goals this past weekend, and Karen is 4th on the team in scoring with 19!! They have a big weekend coming up as they play their conference rival Ithaca on Saturday while we are at Drexel, you can follow them the same way you follow us at www.stevensducks.com. Good Luck Women's Lacrosse!!!!! -Liz "Voldie" Zmijewski