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

Field Trip to New Meadlowlands!!

So...for those of you that don't know, Kara and I (Liz) are both civil engineering majors, and about a month ago we had the privilege of going on a FIELD TRIP!! We are currently taking a class with our teams academic adviser, Leslie Brunell, and she organized a field trip to the New Meadowlands. On a blustery Friday in February Kara and I ventured with about 40 other civil engineering students to the current location of Giants Stadium. Once there we went into one of the most intense construction trailers I have ever seen. You would never imagine how nice those little boxy trailers can get inside! We met with a Skanska representative who told us all about the construction that was going on currently and what would eventually be happening. Some fun facts about the New Meadowlands:
-The New Meadowland stadium is 30 feet away from the old Giant Stadium
-The whole project is a joint project split 50-50 with the Giants and the Jets
-Apparently the Jets want all the fancy schmansy stuff in their lockerrooms and the owners suits, not the Giants! (Kara and I are both Eagle's fans, so we like making fun of both teams)
-The project is actually AHEAD of schedule right now! The stadium should be finished by the end of the upcoming season, and as soon as the last NFL game is played in Giants Stadium they are going to start taking it down.
-Giant Stadium is going to be taken down piece by piece, not exploded due to its close proximity to the New Meadlowlands

Kara and I walked all around the stadium, walking down on field level, up in the owners suits, behind where the scoreboards are going to be and along where the fan seating is going to be. We got to wear hard hats, safety vests and safety glasses!!! Despite being absolutely FREEZING and windy we had a blast! It was really cool to see what goes on behind the scenes, and being able to see things that we had drawn in previous summer jobs and learned about in class was really fun. We would walk around saying "Hey look, REBAR!" and other silly things. It just goes to show that you are never to old to go on a field trip!!

3 v. 1

Alli, Liz, and Meghan... Liz and Meg on the Double... Alli on the Split! Triple-Team...Awesome! That's how we do it!

Drexel Tournament Schedule... COME WATCH US!

Below is our the schedule for the Drexel Tournament. We will be there all day, please come and join us! We will be implementing all the new rules...including the AWESOME "Self-Start" rule, which the team loves! (Especially Erin)

April 4 Drexel Play Day at Buckley Field

Drexel	vs.	Lafayette	9:00 - 9:35
Rutgers	vs.	Stevens	9:45 - 10:20
LaSalle	vs.	Lafayette	10:30 -11:05
Drexel	vs.	Rutgers	11:15 - 11:50
LaSalle	vs.	Stevens	12:00 - 12:35
Rutgers	vs.	Lafayette	12:45 - 1: 20
Drexel	vs.	Stevens	1:30 - 2:05
Rutgers	vs.	LaSalle	2:15 - 2:50
Drexel	vs.	Stevens	3:00 - 3:35
Drexel	vs.	LaSalle	3:45 - 4: 20

JOIN US FOR SOME AWESOME HOCKEY! WE LOOK FORWARD TO SEEING YOU THERE!