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Women’s Game Has Momentum
LM columnist leaves imprint on growing community
sparse press boxes at women’s lacrosse games nationwide will not have a seat for Clare Lochary.
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An assistant editor and writer for Lacrosse Magazine since
December 2006 and a popular columnist since 2009, Lochary in December accepted a position writing for a mobile advertising firm in Baltimore.
And while Lochary’s column in this month’s edition (“My Post- Lacrosse Life,” page 24) may read like a farewell letter, we hope it’s not. Her unique storytelling talents have woven her into the fabric of the lacrosse community. Lochary ventured
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bravely into the sometimes- contentious world of women’s lacrosse with sharp opinions, refreshing insights and an inspirational voice. She developed a following in the women’s game, covering multiple FIL World Cups and NCAA championships and profiling the game’s biggest stars and personalities. She also had a keen eye for offbeat stories and always kept the US Lacrosse mission in mind.
or the first time in seven years, the too-often
In 2010, Lacrosse Magazine won the IWLCA President’s Cup media award largely because of Lochary’s effort to look under the hood at important issues and trends in the women’s game. Despite her departure, we remain committed to providing the best, most
That’s what’s great about these college coaches — they genuinely care about the game beyond their own interests.
in-depth coverage of this growing segment of the lacrosse community. Did anyone else notice that while we hemmed and hawed over declining attendance at the NCAA men’s championship weekend in Philadelphia last May, more than 9,000 fans turned out for the epic Maryland-North Carolina women’s final at nearby Villanova?
Or that three months
later, Steele Stanwick, one of the men’s game’s brightest offensive minds as a player — who probably could have had his pick of entry-level assistant coaching jobs at the college level — decided
to start his career on the sideline with Janine Tucker and the Johns Hopkins women’s team? In an interview with
Lochary for this massive college preview edition (see pages 28 through, well, the rest of the magazine), North Carolina coach Jenny Levy said the 2013 NCAA championship game, a 13- 12 triple-overtime Tar Heels victory, provided a fast and fan-friendly template for what women’s lacrosse should look like in the future. “There’s a lot to be learned from that game,” Levy said. “What we should be doing right now is having a vision for where the college game should be going. We had so much positive feedback from the championship game, and the sport really had a lot of energy around it.” Even Levy’s adversary,
Maryland coach Cathy Reese, acknowledged their classic encounter was good for the game, even if her Terps were on the losing side of history. That’s what’s great about these college coaches — they genuinely care about the game beyond their own interests.
They’ll always have an outlet here at Lacrosse Magazine. Clare Lochary helped us see to that. LM
— Matt DaSilva
mdasilva@uslacrosse.org
6 LACROSSE MAGAZINE February 2014
A Publication of US Lacrosse
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