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The Script Starts Here


We did 100 sprints, one for every team in the mag


perceived slight that motivated the Loyola men all the way to an NCAA championship last year. As media reports told it, when the preseason poll came out, the Greyhounds saw they were ranked 21st and ran 21 sprints for each team ranked ahead of them — plus one for good measure.


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But as that of any conquering hero, the story gets embellished and becomes more myth than fact. As coach Charley


Toomey later admitted, Loyola never performs straight sprints, but rather a lacrosse- specific mix of


shuttles, speed and endurance runs. Toomey


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wasn’t even at practice when this unfolded. And for the record, you as members of US Lacrosse know that we at Lacrosse Magazine gave the Greyhounds the preseason love they deserved — sort of. We had them 19th. We also wrote that they would “have to win a bunch of 7-6 games” to keep pace in the ECAC. Loyola turned around and shredded its first eight opponents, eclipsing 13 goals in six of those games. Such is the nature of prognostications.


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you’ve heard the story of 21 sprints.


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And here we are again. Twelve months later, our 2013 preseason rankings look drastically different than they did a year ago, thanks to a year that flipped our lids. It wasn’t just Loyola, which comes in at No. 1. When did you ever think you would see Lehigh (No. 10) and Colgate (No. 11) ranked ahead of Syracuse?


Our preseason rankings look drastically different than they did a year ago, thanks to a year that flipped our lids.


Or Bryant, not long ago a Division II program, in the top 20? Or No. 1 Florida and No. 2 Syracuse having better outlooks than two programs — No. 3 Northwestern and No. 4 Maryland — that have combined to win the last eight NCAA women’s titles? That’s the beauty of


Cinderella stories. They have a lingering effect on their surrounding landscapes. Not only do we want to know how the new stars will cope with fame, but we also want to see how the old guard will adapt (if at all) and who is the next big thing. That’s what we do here at Lacrosse Magazine. We


forecast the future, risk embarrassment — did we really rank Harvard 11th last year? — and follow as the drama unfolds.


This special college preview edition was one of the most ambitious we’ve ever produced. With projected starters, expanded scouting reports from rival coaches and the recent #LMranks countdown on LaxMagazine.com and Twitter, we worked especially hard for you to have a magazine you could chew on throughout the season and throw back at us for inevitable misreads. Speaking of the countdown, that effort was driven largely by someone who will no longer be a member of our team by the time this issue hits your mailbox. Matt Forman, who contributed to LM for three years while at Northwestern and spent the last 14 months with us here in Baltimore, has accepted an opportunity to work for an MLB team in their baseball operations department. Yeah, he’s leaving lacrosse for baseball.


Matt has become a respected member of the lacrosse media. (One prominent Division I coach told him he provided better insight on the shot clock issue than any writer out there.) He also used his talents to share the mission of US Lacrosse and show its value through storytelling, while constantly thinking of ways to engage members. For that, we are thankful. But as a Yankees fan, I’m a little nervous another team has someone like Forman in its front office ranks. LM


— Matt DaSilva mdasilva@uslacrosse.org A Publication of US Lacrosse


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