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The University Daily Kansan
Friday, February 19, 1999
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Lacrosse clubs gaining popularity on campus
Coastal sport draws following among students
By Matt Tait
Kansan sportswriter
Neither clam digging nor deep-sea fishing is popular in Kansas.
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Lacrosse, also a coastal activitv. isn't either.
Luckily for KU students, the Kansas Lacrosse Club offers a way for those who grew up playing lacrosse, to continue.
The University of Kansas has both a men's and a women's lacrosse club. The two clubs play by slightly different rules.
The women play two 30-minute halves, while the men play four 12-minute quarters.
Penalties and rules such as offsides, slashing and cross-checking are the same for both clubs, but generally men's games allow more hitting and roughness than women's games do. Women lacrosse players have less protection from injury.
"Since we don't wear pads and helmets, they basically put an invisible bubble around us where the sticks cannot go into or else it's a penalty," said Laura Lavid, Lorton, Va., soophomore.
physical games around," Denver senior James Lester said. "It has been dubbed the fastest game on two feet."
Hitting is allowed in men's games, but unnecessary roughness is not allowed. It is punishable by sending a player to the penalty box.
Lester said that lacrosse was a hybrid of three games — basketball, hockey and soccer.
The women's team suffered its first home loss of the spring season last Saturday against Regis University of Denver. The score was 20-4.
"Lacrosse is one of the most
The team, which begins league play in April, said that the home loss was not too devastating because it came against a high-caliber team.
"It gives us good experience, playing teams like Regis, because they are really good." Lavid said. "They practice, like, six times a week, two hours a day. So, there's definitely a different range of teams, and hopefully we're on our way up."
This year, the team is joining a new league, which includes teams from New England states to the Midwest.
T he women's division includes Illinois, Missouri, Truman State and Knox College. Every year the top two teams from this division go to the national competition in Toledo.
Lara Ratican, St. Louis senior, started the women's
club team at Kansas three years ago. She said that she could see the game growing.
"There's a big potential for this sport to take off," Ratican said. "It would be awesome if, some day, it was a varsity sport, because
there's a lot of talented players out there."
there. Ratican is one of those players.She had two goals Saturday against Regis, moving her into first place on the women's team career scoring list
The men have yet to begin their season.
Powered by the determination of first-year president Lester and vice-president Ben Watson, Chicago junior, the men's club is growing. The team has 20 members this year.
"I think we have enough young kids that the sport will continue to grow," Lester said. "It's been nice being able to play, but it's been real frustrating, too."
One of the reasons the team has been unorganized is that it does not belong to a national league. The team plays in the more local Great Plains League, and generally does well. The men's team won it two years ago, and lost in the finals last year.
Big 12 Conference
Next year,however,the team will join the Central College Lacrosse Association,which is mostly made up of Big 10 Conference schools. Missouri and Kansas State making it three from the Big 12 Conference.
Playing in this league will allow the team to compete in a national tournament and gain
more exposure.
"James' and my goal is to get something more structured in place," Watson said. "There's interest here, and people show up, but you don't always have enough to practice."
The men will open their season at Missouri on March 6. Lester and Watson said they both thought the men's team was talented enough to go to a regional this year and would continue to get better in the future.
"If we get organized enough, we've got a good chance to go to regionals," Watson said. "There are guys that have good talent, but they haven't played together. If we get a cohesive unit together we could be good."
Watson said that kids all over the country were starting to play lacrosse at an earlier age and that the game was gaining in popularity.
"I like the competition and the fact that it's a very team oriented sport," Ratican said. "It's just a different, cool sport that I love to play."
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