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Award winner at Maryland and the youngest player on Team USA, loves playing with her sister Lauren, who has been involved in the U.S. national teams program since 2007. But when Team USA trimmed its roster for Champion Challenge, only one Schwarzmann advanced — one who eventually made the fi nal 18-player squad (page 60). Afterward, Lauren expressed nothing but joy for her younger sister’s accomplishment. “That’s just the type of person she is,” Katie Schwarzmann said. “She’s gone through it and done great things. Now she’s just really excited to come support me and the U.S. program in Canada.” Schwarzmann, 21, has brought the same fi eld vision and fast-break abilities to Team USA as she has to College Park, where she’s now a senior midfi elder looking to bookend her career with NCAA championships. Playing with the U.S. and in its aggressive zone riding schemes has helped her take her defense up a notch. “She’s great between the lines,
super-athletic and doesn’t like to lose,” Team USA coach Ricky Fried said. Schwarzmann has not lost much at
Maryland. In her fi rst three seasons, the Terps were 62-7 and made three trips to the fi nal four. Schwarzmann’s production has increased each year, including 72 goals and 22 assists in 2012. “She has the ability to take over a game,” Team USA assistant Liz Robertshaw said.
Even as the youngest player on the U.S. team — she’s about two months younger than fellow rookie Danielle Etrasco — Schwarzmann feels at home in the red, white and blue. “They do a good job including us and not make us feel like there’s separation,” she said. In some ways, she now gets to play with 17 other sisters. LM
The Jumbos will be shorthanded against Hamilton and Connecticut College after an investigation found players exhibited “unacceptable behavior” at a volleyball match.
27 Tufts Players Suspended
Twenty-seven Tufts
men’s lacrosse players will be suspended for the fi rst two games this season after an investigation found that the players behaved inappropriately during a women’s volleyball match in September.
The investigation
stemmed from an op-ed in The Tufts Daily, a student newspaper that cited racist and sexist insults as overheard during the match against Smith College. The comments came from a group of men, “many of whom were wearing Tufts lacrosse apparel,” according to the op-ed. The Tufts Offi ce of Equal Opportunity hired a lawyer to pursue an “external investigation” after a complaint was fi led. John Barker, dean for undergraduate and graduate
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students of the schools of arts and sciences and of engineering, and Bill Gehling, director of athletics, wrote in a letter published by the Daily that spectators, players, and coaches from Tufts and Smith were interviewed in the process. “The investigation
concluded that unacceptable behavior did occur, and members of our men’s lacrosse team were responsible for that behavior,” the letter said. A spokesperson for Tufts said in an email to The Boston Globe that some of the players had abused alcohol on the night in question.
“They were drunk and loud,” student Rose Barrett, who wrote the original op-ed, told the Globe. “And all of us were scared, because the comments were so explicit.”
Reached by Lacrosse Magazine after the university announced the suspensions, Jumbos coach Mike Daly gave a brief statement. “Clearly, this is a regrettable event and situation. I will say that we hold this program and our players to the highest possible standard and it is my job to make sure the refl ection of the team on the fi eld is one I and our university are proud of,” Daly said. “Our team is moving forward at this point, using this unfortunate and isolated event as a learning and growing experience.” Those members of the lacrosse team who were sanctioned will miss contests against NESCAC foes Hamilton (March 9) and Connecticut College (March 12).
— from staff reports
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