Lacrosse magazine ranks the University of Denver’s women’s team No. 16 in the nation in its poll released Wednesday.
“We have a solid team returning, and we look forward to playing a challenging schedule this season,” DU coach Liza Kelly said. “We will face five teams in Lax Power’s top 20, including Duke and North Carolina to start the year.”
The Pioneers begin the season Feb. 14 on the road at No. 6 Duke and play at No. 4 North Carolina three days later. The other ranked teams DU faces are No. 11 Georgetown on March 2 at home, No. 19 Rutgers on March 38 at University Park, Md., and No. 9 Johns Hopkins in Baltimore on March 30.
The Pioneers will also have seven consecutive home games, starting Feb. 22 against Stony Brook and concluding March 21 against Cincinnati at Barton Lacrosse Stadium.
Mines, Metro soccer players honored.
Colorado Mines senior forward Craig Thompson, the Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference men’s soccer player of the year, added to his awards when he was named to the National Soccer Coaches Association Midwest Region team.
Thompson’s teammate Nick Kubala, a senior midfielder, also made the first team. Mines defender Ross Davis was selected to the second team, as were three Metro State players: senior defender Garrett Sadusky, junior midfielder Kellen Johnson and senior forward Phillip Owen.
UNC hires golf, swimming coaches.
Northern Colorado hired Chuck Scheinost as men’s golf coach and Alyson Aggers as assistant swimming coach and promoted assistant strength and conditioning coach Joe Schaffer to director of strength and conditioning.
Scheinost was an assistant at Northern Illinois the past two years. He spent 2001-03 as volunteer coach for the Northern Colorado junior golf tour at Collindale Golf Club in Fort Collins.
Aggers was a standout swimmer at Colorado State under coach John Mattos and graduated in 2006. She has worked as an assistant for the Loveland Swim Club.
