While, as coaches, we already knew how special the lacrosse community can be, the opportunity to come together helped us each reiterate that to our team members. One of the top takeaways that everyone shared was that D.C. is a great city and was a one of the main reasons each person chose their respective program. So, not only is D.C. an awesome city, which we all can’t recommend enough, but we also wanted to share the TOP FIVE reasons D.C. women’s lacrosse is awesome:
1. Honestly, how many teams would tolerate coaches who think it is a great idea to go hang out with other teams? Not only did our players tolerate the event, but they thought it was pretty cool, both during and after the fact. Many a social media friendship was ignited, and the goal is that this will become an annual event! Hopefully next year we can add a service component, too.
2. While Catholic was the only team that took the metro to the Mall, all of our campuses are accessible through public transportation! American, Catholic and UDC are all on the same Red Line, and Howard is just down the street from us and on the Green Line (a super easy transfer). Besides occasional (frequent?) scheduling snafus, the D.C. Metro is a pretty easy and affordable way to get around the city.
3. How cool is it that our four teams are so varied and different, yet all play lacrosse? We have American, a private Division I school in the Patriot League; Catholic, a smaller faith-based Division III school; Howard, a private Division I HBCU; and UDC, a public, Division II HBCU; yet we could all come together and have fun!
4. The head coaches all have really cool dogs … and while we didn’t get to meet Noodle the Doodle (Lindsay’s dog), Caesar (@caesar_thebabybully) and Bailey Belle (@BaileyBelleDoodleDog) had fun with all of the teams, too!
5. We all love ice cream!