Happy Valentine's Day From the Gennies!

What do our Generals love besides lacrosse?

Coach Brooke: Davis & Diet Coke

Sammy: Purple

Annie: Starbucks

Emily: Lululemon

Olive: Dinosaurs

CK: Needle Point & Lilly Pulitzer

Becca: the 4th of July

Hagen: Gwen

Carolyn: Boys

Darby & Nala (Honorary Gennies)

Game Day Preps

With the start of our season this weekend with our scrimmage, we wanted to let you know about how our team prepares and what superstitions some of our teammates have.

Amelia- I just get anti-social on the bus headed to games, listen to pump up music, and don't talk to anyone, besides that I kinda just go with the flow. 

Marge- Whadya says and thankful circle are my favorite!!!! I love psych and jammin out to our locker room mix too. Before the game, I always run with Gretty and we throw bad passes for each other so we are ready to catch anything.

Leanne- I love the locker room atmosphere on game day. Everyone is getting pumped up in their own way, whether it's dancing to hageybabes tunes or sitting in your locker getting into your zone. Everyone is excited and getting ready for the game ahead and it's such a fun time to be together as a team!

Meade- I love thankful circle when we have a chance to put everything in perspective.

Mere- I love listening to good pump-up music before games and just feeding off the energy that my teammates are providing. I am superstitious about which socks I wear.

Ash- I eat carrots as part of my pre-game meal even if it’s in the morning #onlyweird if it doesn't work. We also had a preseason poll about which game everyone is most excited about playing and it was unanimous: Mary Washington. 

Ready to WOMP!!!

-Carly and Mere

In Spirit of the Red Carpet Season

We know, tough choice.

Meet the First Years

This season, 12 new freshmen have joined our lacrosse family!! Let's see what they have to say about their new life as a General!

Molly Mahoney

Molly Mahony loves W&L because of the small classes and approachable professors. But she now realizes that being an athlete means she has to manage her work and sacrifice a lot of down time.

Lizzy Caldwell

Lizzy Caldwell loves being able to represent the Generals, even though she misses her home in the Rockie Mountains. She still finds time to volunteer around Lexington though, despite being a lacrosse player and a dedicated student. 

Carly Taglienti

Becca Dean

Becca Dean's favorite part about being a lacrosse player at W&L is spending every minute with her besties, even though being an in-season athlete is a huge time commitment. 

Carly Taglienti loves that W&L is the perfect mix of academics, social life, and great lacrosse. She especially misses home cooked meals back in New Jersey, but she finds lacrosse to be a great outlet to a stressful academic life. 

- Katie Hagen & Annie Murphy

Generals' Retreat

Going into the retreat, everyone was a little nervous. Twelve hours in a room together was a long time and we were unsure of what to expect, but we decided as a team to go in with smiles on our faces and accept the challenges. The first hour or so was dedicated to learning more about one another and what we all valued. Katie Barnes is fluent in Spanish while Meredith loves her dogs. Once we realized that although we're all individuals we do have similar values, we were able to start various activities. We learned the importance of the foundation of a team. Communication and planning were all we could do for many of the activities. We learned to think out of the box and be more dynamic as people. We think that the best part of the day was when we crossed the acid river as a team. There were only 12 "rocks" we could step on safely. So we made mistakes, as in lacrosse there will always be mistakes made. But each time we learned from them as a team. Despite not being able to talk to one another, each person on the team made a mistake and each person on the team learned from one another. We communicated with body gestures and Carly was the first to attempt crossing the river.

After the 27 of us all made mistakes, Carly was able to successfully cross the river on her second attempt and everyone followed suit. As a team, it's not about being perfect, it's about learning from one another and working together to reach a common goal. Toward the end of he day, we discussed our goals and what we wanted to achieve throughout the season. All of us have big dreams and want to be the best and are aware of the sacrifices we need to make in order to get there. When discussing our sacrifices, the tone was never "oh man I'm giving this up" it was always more of a "I don't get this but I have all of this" optimistic outlook. We all started playing for different reasons but we all continue to play for similar ones: to be a part of something bigger, for pride, for the love of the game, for each other, for the team. Like we said, we were hesitant coming into that environment and stepping out of our comfort zone. But at the end of the day, there wasn't a girl in the room that could say she didn't have fun or that she didn't learn something about herself or her teammates. And who knows by the end of the season there may even be a wiggle waggle video to show. Also stay tuned for next years version of the color run - dirty girl mud run!!!!!

- Meade and Carolyn