All-Coyne Team: NCAA Division III Women
by Jac Coyne | Lacrosse Magazine Online Staff | Coyne Archive
All-Coyne Teams: MCLA I | MCLA II | WD3
It’s that time of year. Preseason’s greetings!
Lacrosse Magazine will release its preseason rankings in the
January issue, but one of the things we don’t do is preseason
All-Americans – we limit ourselves to Preseason Players of
the Year, which, to be honest, is tough enough to deliberate and
find a consensus.
(Look no further than LMO’s
fan poll that ended Monday, the results of which will also be
published in January.)
As an experiment, Jac Coyne and Matt DaSilva have developed their
own preseason All-American teams – with a twist. We’re
not looking for the best player at every position. Rather,
we’re trying to construct the best team, blending styles and
strengths. We want to devise a team that cannot be defeated in a
15-minute game with any combination of the remaining players in
their division.
We’ll call them the All-Coyne and All-DaSilva teams, so as
not to be confused with those
other preseason All-Americans.
Think we’ve erred? Think you can do better? You can try to
whip up a different combination of players at their designated
positions (and post them in the comments section below) without
using ours, but we promise, you won’t win.
Check back to LMO this week and next to see our unbeatable squads from the MCLA ranks up through NCAA Division I men and women.
NCAA DIVISION III WOMEN'S ALL-COYNE
TEAM
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A - Kristin Joyce (Union)
A - Blake Hargest (F&M)
A - Chase Delano (Middlebury)
M - Amanda Roberts (Tufts)
M - Kate Robinson (Catholic)
M - Alison Jaeger (TCNJ)
M - Hollis Stahl (Gettysburg)
M - Liz Rave (Hamilton)
D - Jess Glazer (Salisbury)
D - Nicole Ditillo (Gettysburg)
D - Alyssa Kopp (Tufts)
G - Lidia Sanza (F&M)
Why you can't beat me
You might find a couple of players to slow down my attack, and you
might find some attackers to give my defense some trouble, but the
All-Coyne Team's midfield is going to embarrass yours and in all
phases of the game. Whether it's draw controls, scoring, assists,
defense or speed, the best middies will play for me. In fact, there
will be times where the All-Coyne Team will have a better offensive
player standing behind the restraining line than you have on your
entire team.
I don't need the best attackers in the country, but I've got three
that are right up there. Joyce provides blinding quickness to take
advantage of defensive lapses, while Delano has the power game
should I need that go-to score down low. Hargest, who has been
setting up some of the best players in the country for the past
couple of years, will feel right at home hitting all of the cutters
flying past your overmatched defenders.
Oh, and feel free to run a zone. You might want to keep two
goalies on the roster, however.
My defenders have everything you could want for a contest like
this - game experience against the best the division has available.
None of them will be starry-eyed no matter whom they draw on
assignment. What can you say about Sanza? I could put replace a
couple of defenders with orange cones and she's still going to post
a save percentage over 50 percent.
