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“We were going to play a really tough schedule, because we have to know where the bar is. Why not figure out how to do it against the best?” said Meade, who resigned from Navy in 2011 after a mostly successful 17- year run, topped by an appearance in the NCAA title game in 2004. As a member of the six-team Atlantic Sun, the winner of which got an NCAA tournament berth, Furman was a 52- man squad loaded with 43 freshmen. The youngsters — including attackmen Graham Dabbs (31 points) and Matt Geran (12 points), midfielder Chase Hancock (11 points), faceoff man Hil Blaze (54.8 percent) and goalie Jake Gavin (46.9 percent) — had to swallow some unpleasant reality this spring. The Paladins scored 7.31 goals per game while allowing 13.85. Besides running a startup at Furman, Meade is the head coach of Team USA, which is preparing to go after its second straight gold medal at the FIL World Championship next month in Denver. Kevin Cassese (Lehigh), Dave Pietramala (Johns Hopkins) and Jeff Tambroni (Penn State) are the U.S. assistants. Curious timing led to this unusual arrangement. Navy forced Meade to resign as coach (but retained him as faculty) in May 2011 and agreed to coach the U.S. seven months later, not long before Furman pursued Meade. By April 2012, Meade decided to leave the Naval Academy, where he taught combative skills in its physical education department for nearly 20 years. He and his family relocated to Greenville, home of South Carolina’s oldest and most selective private college. The only thing Meade teaches at the liberal arts school is lacrosse. Meade said he doesn’t look back at Furman’s decision to bring the sport officially on board this year, instead of waiting until 2015. He noted that Furman’s decision to go Division I essentially helped form a new league. “That fact that we started our program is what started the Atlantic Sun,” Meade said. “We also thought that if we waited two years [to officially move to Division I], it was going to hurt us in recruiting. Going through this process is difficult for everybody. But I put us in this situation for a purpose, and that purpose is to get us through some adversity.” LM
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Sileo sets NCAA scoring record
LIU Post senior attacker Jackie Sileo became the NCAA’s all-time leading point-producer in all women’s divisions, breaking the mark of 500 points previously accumulated by Ashley Hansbury at Division III Curry College from 2008-11. Sileo, who set the record April 2 against Dowling, had 547 points at the end of the regular season. The only question remaining was whether LIU Post would win another Division II title, sending Sileo out as a three-time champ.
Vanderbilt, Florida move to Big East With the lacrosse-only ALC women’s conference disbanding after the 2014 season because of many teams headed to the Big Ten, Florida, Vanderbilt and Johns Hopkins were left without a conference home. While the Blue Jays remain independent in 2015, Florida and Vanderbilt are slated to join the Big East, Commodores coach Cathy Swezey said ahead of this year’s ALC tournament. “It’s all but formalized,
but Vanderbilt and Florida, we’re kind of moving together and it looks like we’re going to be affiliate members with the Big East,” Swezey said.
The Gators and Commodores will join Cincinnati, UConn, Georgetown, Marquette,
Louisville, Temple, Villanova in the Big East.
— Megan Schneider
Coaching change at Holy Cross In the first Division I head
coaching move of the year, Jim Morrissey resigned from his post at Holy Cross with one game left in the regular season. He posted a 17-36 record at Holy Cross during his tenure, which began as the program’s interim head coach midway through the 2011 campaign. For updates all summer on the college coaching carousel, visit
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in the country, play the best teams and raise our level of play until we’re there,” said Syracuse coach Gary Gait, who is in his seventh year. “Now, we’ve made it.” The Orange was 17-2, with both losses coming to ACC champion Maryland, heading into its regular- season finale versus Loyola. — M.S.
Jamieson captures NLL scoring title Cody Jamieson of the Rochester Knighthawks finished the NLL regular season with 108 points on 36 goals and 72 assists in 18 games to be the
Goucher player killed in hit-and-run Goucher sophomore midfielder Matthew Gabriel died April 14 of injuries suffered in a hit-and-run accident in the early morning hours of April 13 near the suburban Baltimore campus. He was 19. Gabriel had appeared in five games. He played in high school at Westlake (Texas).
Syracuse women reach No. 1
After a 12-9 win over then-No. 1 North Carolina on April 12, the Syracuse women took over the nation’s top ranking for the first time in program history. “It’s what we fight for every week, every day. We play the best schedule
league’s scoring champion. A 10-point night did it for him, overtaking Toronto’s Garrett Billings, who had 101 points in the 15 games he played before tearing his right ACL. Calgary’s Shawn Evans was runner-up with 105 points. The NLL playoffs wrap up May 30 weekend. Visit
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