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“On paper, we look stacked." -- UVA head coach Lars Tiffany. The 5th-ranked Virginia men's lacrosse team will take on Towson in its season opener on Saturday at Klöckner Stadium.
Photo by Larry French/NCAA Photos via Getty Images The Virginia Men’s Lacrosse team kicks off the 2021 season this afternoon as the Hoos host Towson at 4pm in a tilt that will be broadcast by the ACC Network. This is the 92nd season in program history, and it has been a long 335 days between games thanks to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. Virginia played just six games last season, going 4-2 overall. Michael Kraus is the biggest loss for the Hoos coming into this season as the fourth year graduated and was drafted No. 2 overall in the 2020 MLL Draft. Kraus scored 14 goals and dished 12 a...
Photo by Larry French/NCAA Photos via Getty Images With the 2021 men’s lacrosse season kicking off on Saturday with a home tilt against Towson, Virginia finally released the full season schedule on Wednesday, February 3. It features 14 games spanning the next 13 weeks, and boasts eight games against teams ranked in the preseason USILA Coaches Poll. The Cavaliers, who won the NCAA tournament in 2019, enter the season ranked No. 5. The Hoos played just six games in the pandemic-shortened 2020 season, going 4-2. They return key pieces at each position group, including All Americans Dox Aitken...
Tue Feb 2 2021 | Brian Logue | Fuel Notre Dame's Savannah Buchanan, Madison Ahearn and Andie Aldave have the Irish primed for success in 2021. They are one half of our covers for the 2021 college preview edition. Good morning. Here’s the latest from around the lacrosse world: 1. Yesterday, we gave a sneak peek of the February print edition of US Lacrosse Magazine, which starts hitting our members’ mailboxes this week. Look for cover stories on Duke men’s lacrosse and Notre Dame women’s lacrosse. TEAMS COVERS Coming to @USLacrosse members this week, our annual NCAA Preview Edition fe...
Yet it isn’t quite as old as some other routine contenders. Virginia made its one graduate transfer addition count, picking up former Merrimack star Charlie Bertrand. But just two of last year’s seniors opted to take advantage of an extra year of eligibility, long pole Jared Conners and midfielder Dox Aitken, who took a rollercoaster path back to Charlottesville after a brief stint as a Division I football player at Villanova. If it felt like at the time Virginia had arrived — or, more accurately, returned — a year early in 2019, in retrospect, it’s fortuitous the Cavaliers clai...