Youngstown State will add a men's swimming and diving program as well as a women's lacrosse team in the near future, Executive Director of Intercollegiate Athletics Ron Strollo announced on Monday.
Men's swimming and diving will become the 20th Division I sport currently offered by the YSU Athletic Department when it begins competition this fall. YSU previously competed in men's swimming and diving from 1964 through 1984 and 1949-51. Women's lacrosse is scheduled to debut in the spring of 2021.
"We're excited about this new opportunity to recruit high school students from Ohio, the region and internationally to pursue their academic and athletic goals at Youngstown State in both sports," Strollo said. "Our swimming facility is one of the best in the area and we look forward to showcasing it with both our men's and women's programs. The growth of women's lacrosse in Ohio and throughout the Midwest has seen an increased number of schools sponsor the sport and we are thrilled to add it at Youngstown State."
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CHAMBERSBURG, Pa. ─ Wilson College continues to expand its intercollegiate athletics program with the addition of women's lacrosse─the fastest-growing NCAA women's sport of the past 15 years.
Women's lacrosse will become Wilson's 11th NCAA Division III program. In the last six years, the college has added six intercollegiate programs─most recently baseball, which will begin its inaugural season this spring with a home opener at Chambersburg's historic Henninger Field.
"Our sport sponsorship continues to expand and we are excited to add the growing sport of women's lacrosse to Phoenix Athletics," said Wilson Director of Athletics Lori Frey. "We look forward to yet another sport competing in the Colonial States Athletics Conference." Wilson's first lacrosse season will occur in the spring of 2021.
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Youngstown State (D1 OH) and Wilson College (D3 PA) Add Women's Lacrosse
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Clark University (D3 MA) Adds Women's Lacrosse
Saturday, April 14, 2018
Worcester, Mass.—The Clark University Athletic department is pleased to announce the addition of a varsity Women's Lacrosse program as announced by Athletic Director, Trish Cronin on Friday morning. The women's lacrosse program will be Clark University's 18th varsity sport. Clark currently sponsors 17 intercollegiate sport programs; eight men's teams and nine women's teams.
The department will begin the search for a full time women's lac
rosse coach this spring and the recruiting process will begin immediately. The Women's Lacrosse program will begin competing in a full New England Women's and Men's Athletic Conference (NEWMAC) schedule in the spring of 2020.
"It is always exciting for an athletic department when we can increase the opportunities for students to participate at the intercollegiate level. Women's Lacrosse will be a great addition to our athletic program and we look forward to their inaugural season," said Cronin.
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St. Ambrose University (NAIA IA) Adds Women's Lacrosse
Sunday, September 04, 2016
St. Ambrose University President Sister Joan Lescinski, CSJ, PhD, announced today the University will add men's and women's varsity swimming & diving and women's varsity lacrosse next academic year. The swimming teams will begin competition in the fall of 2017 and the women's lacrosse team will begin play in the spring of 2018.
Additionally, SAU Director of Athletics Ray Shovlain announced the hiring of Garrett Wimberly as the head men's and women's lacrosse coach at St. Ambrose. He will begin his duties on Sept. 1.
Since 2009-10, the University has added men's and women's bowling, men's lacrosse, athletic band, and now men's and women's swimming & diving, and women's lacrosse.
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Sunday, May 22, 2016
ational lacrosse participation topped 800,000 active players for the first time since US Lacrosse began monitoring participation levels in 2001. For the year, total participation grew 2.2 percent to a total of 802,044 players competing on organized teams.
Youth lacrosse continues to be the largest segment of play in the country with nearly 450,000 players under the age of 15. For the second consecutive year there were 14 states with at least 10,000 players, led by New York with 56,335 players.
At the high school level, lacrosse remains the fastest-growing team sport according to date from the National Federation of State High School Associations. Over the five-year period from 2010-2015, the number of schools with boys’ lacrosse rose 29.5 percent and the number of girls’ programs grew 29.8 percent. Indoor track was the only other sport with a double-digit percentage increase in new teams.
The growth rates were even higher at the NCAA level. From 2010 to 2015, the number of new men’s programs grew 33.6 percent and the number of new women’s programs grew 36.6 percent.
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Monday, June 16, 2014
CHAMPAIGN — The Big Ten will contest the first lacrosse championships for men and women next spring.
Don’t look for the Illini to be in the hunt.
Lacrosse is not currently one of the school’s 19 varsity sports, and UI athletic director Mike Thomas said Thursday, “We haven’t looked at program expansion. As we sit today, we want to see how we can help our existing programs before we look at adding others.”
Thomas is familiar with lacrosse and its rapid growth nationally.
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Sunday, March 30, 2014
WINTER PARK, Fla. (Women’s Lacrosse) – The Sunshine State Conference will grow to 18 NCAA Division II sponsored sports with the addition of women’s lacrosse beginning the spring of 2015. The conference is currently sponsoring its first season of men’s lacrosse.
League bylaws require that half of the conference’s member institutions offer a particular sport before it may become a conference-sponsored sport.
Currently, Florida Southern, Rollins, Saint Leo and Tampa are competing independently in NCAA Division II. Tampa is in its first year of competition. Florida Tech is currently in a building year and will compete for the first time in the spring of 2015.
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Monday, August 12, 2013
In 2014-15, Colorado State University-Pueblo will add a men's lacrosse program to its intercollegiate sports offerings, increasing the University's sports to 22.
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Coinciding with the arrival of the men's and women's lacrosse programs in 2014-15, CSU-Pueblo's Rawlings Soccer Complex will be re-purposed to house the men's and women's soccer as well as men's and women's lacrosse programs with an all-weather turf field, stadium, press box and team facilities, slated to be completed in time for the 2015-16 season.
View artist's renderings of the facility below.
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Albertus Magnus College Pushing Back Varsity Start to 2014
Sunday, January 06, 2013
Albertus Magnus College has announced that both its men's and women's lacrosse teams will begin their Varsity competition in 2014 as both teams will compete as club teams in 2013.
"We're excited to get men's and women's lacrosse off of the ground at Albertus Magnus College. Both Darryl Delia (men's lacrosse head coach) and Steve Jewett (women's lacrosse head coach) are doing a great job creating a buzz surrounding our programs," said Director of Athletic Michael Spinner. "We're all looking forward to the spring of 2014 when we can finally unveil three years of very hard work, and have a product on the field that the entire Albertus Magnus community can be proud of."
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Tuesday, July 31, 2012
John Carroll University President Rev. Robert L. Niehoff, S.J., announced today that men's and women's lacrosse will debut as varsity sports at the Division III school, with competition beginning during the 2013-14 academic year.
“We are excited to add one of the fastest growing sports in the country to our varsity athletics program,” said Father Niehoff. “With this level of student and alumni interest in lacrosse, we know it is the right time for us move forward with expanding our varsity sports in this way.”
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Friday, February 04, 2011
Jim McPhilliamy has reason to be excited about a new Major League Lacrosse franchise in Charlotte, N.C. And, he has reason to believe the sport will succeed.
"The sport's growing tremendously here. Everybody's out throwing a ball around. There are nets everywhere," he says. "It's growing like wildfire."
Senior sports management executive Jim McPhilliamy led the efforts to bring the team to Charlotte. McPhilliamy will be the team president of the currently-unnamed franchise in Charlotte, he said over the phone late last week.
Charlotte and Columbus, Ohio, were tabbed by the league for expansion in 2012, Inside Lacrosse reported and the league later confirmed.
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