FANTASY DRAFT Team DaSilva


Women do not have their own Major League Lacrosse or National Lacrosse League, nor does the women’s game wield the same influence as the men’s game in the marketplace. “Our main initiative here is to help grow the


ATTACK: Michelle Tumolo, Sarah Mollison, Crysti Foote


MIDFIELD: Taylor D’Amore, Hannah Nielsen, Taylor Thornton, Acacia Walker, Maddie Poplawski


DEFENSE: Holly McGarvie, Kelsey McGovern, Margaret Smith


GOALIE: Devon Wills


RESERVES: Karri Ellen Johnson, Gabby Flibotte, Devan Crimi, Jasmine DePompeo


COMMENTS: “As goalies go, it’s Wills, and then a steep drop to the next tier. I had to snag her in the first round. And I’m looking to Tumolo and Thornton to rekindle the magic that made them two of the most entertaining players to watch in 2012.”


Team Errington


ATTACK: Lindsey Munday, Danielle Etrasco, Alex Aust


MIDFIELD: Laura


Zimmerman, Kelly Rabil, Sarah Bullard, Brittany Dashiell, Emily Garrity


DEFENSE: Iliana Sanza, Kasey Mock, Kate Ivory


GOALIE: Kendall McBrearty


RESERVES: Katie Webster, Lauren Purvis, Ali DeLuca, Kristen Giovanniello


COMMENTS: “Starting a team and building a fan base, Team USA captain and alpha dog Lindsey Munday is my pick. I opted for U.S. continuity with an elite finisher in Etrasco to benefit from Munday’s world-class feeding ability.”


Team Gibson


ATTACK: Alyssa Murray, Abbey Friend, Danielle Spencer


MIDFIELD: Katie Schwarzmann, Kara Cannizzaro, Abby Rehfuss, Shannon Smith, Lauren Schwarzmann


DEFENSE: Katie Hertsch, Taylor Virden, Ana Heneberry


48 LACROSSE MAGAZINE September 2014>> COMMENTS


“Starting a team and building a fan base, Team USA captain and alpha dog lindsey munday is my pick.”


sport, giving that younger generation someone to look up to,” Stamper said.


The Soccer Comparison Since 2001, the total number of lacrosse


players (male and female) has increased by 194 percent. Youth girls’ lacrosse witnessed a 43.4-percent participation jump in 2013. At the high school girls’ level, it’s 36.2 percent But the most staggering number in the latest US Lacrosse Participation Survey? Zero.


Zero females playing at the professional level. “That’s the difference between women’s and


men’s lacrosse,” said Team USA and Team HLA member Courtney Swan, a rising senior at Virginia who hopes to continue playing. “There’s a future for men playing after college, but for women after college, you’re done.” Stamper called Team STX a “great first step” in


the direction of professional women’s lacrosse. “That would be the ultimate goal, and we would be really proud knowing that Team STX would be the catalyst in something that huge,” she said. In a crowded pro sports scene, it’s the “big four”


(NFL, MLB, NBA and NHL) and everyone else. Both the MLL, established in 2001, and NLL, which adapted the Major Indoor Lacrosse League to include individual team ownership in 1998, have struggled to survive outside of select markets. What about the women? The WNBA has the


backing of the NBA. But the most comparable women’s sport to lacrosse might be soccer, looking at the National Women’s Soccer League (NWSL), which was established in 2013. Two previous attempts at establishing a pro league failed. The Women’s United Soccer Association (WUSA), feeding off the momentum of the 1999 FIFA Women’s World Cup, played from 2001 to 2003 before folding. Women’s Professional Soccer (WPS) likewise lasted just three seasons until 2012. “When and if it eventually happens, it is


important to look into women’s professional soccer and use them in the first two tries as a benchmark,” said Team USA member and recent Johns Hopkins graduate Taylor D’Amore. “What went well? What didn’t? Why did the league collapse the first two times? I’ve seen more publicity about the women’s soccer league now.”


Could It Work? Advocates identified three steps to make pro


women’s lacrosse more than a pipe dream.


1. INCREASE EXPOSURE. “You hear the words ‘grow the game’ thrown


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