How Gary Gait developed 1 of college lacrosse’s largest coaching trees Courtesy of Rich Barnes | USA Today Sports Syracuse women s lacrosse head coach Gary Gait has former players scattered around assistant coaching jobs around the country. Facebook Subscribe to our sports newsletter here. When the lacrosse season went on pause at the start of the pandemic, Syracuse women’s lacrosse head coach Gary Gait spent some of his extra time on Zoom with former Syracuse players. He held a “coaching clinic” for former SU women’s lacrosse players who made the jump to coaching at schools around the country after playing at SU. In a series of virtual discussions with a group of former players, he spoke to alumni dating back to the beginning of Gait’s tenure in 2007. Several coaches also said that they use several of Gait’s strategies with their own teams.
UAlbany women’s lacrosse falls again to Stony Brook in America East final | The Daily Gazette SECTIONS Shares0 UAlbany couldn’t break its long losing streak Saturday against Stony Brook, as the Seawolves won yet another America East Conference women’s lacrosse championship. With a 16-9 win at its home Kenneth P. LaValle Stadium on Long Island, Stony Brook secured its eighth consecutive league championship. All eight of those title victories have come against a Great Danes program that has appeared in the last 10 conference championship games. “We gave it our all,” UAlbany graduate student Madison Conway said during a post-game teleconference of the Great Danes’ effort.
UAlbany women’s lacrosse set for latest championship battle with Stony Brook | The Daily Gazette SECTIONS Shares0 It’s the challenge the UAlbany women’s lacrosse program hasn’t been able to solve for years. The Great Danes, though, don’t approach their latest matchup with Stony Brook, their top nemesis, with a sense of dread. It’s not easy to take on a program that’s defeated them in 16 consecutive matchups and the last seven America East Conference championship games, sure, but Saturday’s 1 p.m. league championship game at Kenneth P. LaValle Stadium on Long Island was inevitably where the Great Danes’ season was headed.
UAlbany women’s lacrosse earns league awards ahead of America East tournament | The Daily Gazette SECTIONS Shares0 ALBANY A championship rematch with Stony Brook, in all likelihood, looms. And, make no doubt about it, that’s the game that will largely determine the way this UAlbany women’s lacrosse season gets remembered. But the Great Danes cannot play that game, the one their program needs to find a way to win to move forward, until this weekend and they won’t play that game unless they take care of business Thursday against Vermont in the America East Conference semifinals at Stony Brook’s Kenneth P. LaValle Stadium at 6:30 p.m.
UAlbany women’s lacrosse optimistic heading into rematch with Stony Brook | The Daily Gazette SECTIONS Shares0 Kendra Harbinger’s already pictured in her mind how it might play out, the cheering and celebrations Saturday at John Fallon Field if she and her UAlbany women’s lacrosse teammates can end the program’s 15-game losing streak against America East power Stony Brook. “We’ve really been putting in the work, and I think this year, more than ever, we have a huge shot,” Harbinger, a senior midfielder/attack, said Wednesday during a teleconference with reporters. “It would be the best feeling ever, as a senior, to top them.”