Taking a quick break from signing day, a source has confirmed to Buffzone that women's lacrosse will be the next sport added to the University of Colorado. We had guessed as much back in January when Mike Bohn first announced that the school would be adding a women's team, but this is the first confirmation that we have seen. Some interesting stuff in the story, so go over and check it out.
Earlier this month Bohn said that girls lacrosse is the fastest growing sport at the high school level in Colorado and much of the rest of the nation and that it would make sense for many reasons for CU to add women's lacrosse. Bohn said at that time the department is targeting the 2013-14 school year for the new women's program to begin competing. He said it could compete as a club sport prior to that.
Startup costs for the program will be relatively minimal with no new facilities required.Women's lacrosse is played in the spring and the CU team would play in Folsom Field and likely use the practice bubble and the same outdoor practice fields utilized by the football team.
The program will compete in the Mountain Pacific Sports Federation in the sport because the Pac-12 Conference does not sponsor women's lacrosse. That could change in the future because CU will be the fifth Pac-12 school to field a women's lacrosse program along with Stanford, Cal, Oregon and USC.
The University of Denver also competes in the MPSF and DU coach Liza Kelly said she was thrilled when she heard Colorado was considering adding the sport.
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I am very interested to see this transition
CU has an outstanding club program. I hope that those girls get an opportunity to compete for spots. I expect this to be the case, because this program won’t get full scholarships, and they’ll need to backfill with quality players. Also, women’s lacrosse is incredibly stupid. Most of the players would prefer to play with men’s rules.
Phil Fraser - February 1, 2012
Agreed
I’m certain the gals on the Club team will be given a shot.
And on the Womens rules:
I’ve never met a single girls lax player who liked them. They all wish they could hit, and every ref seems to interpret the rules on legal stick checks differently. And none of them like those face masks. Of course, helmets are a pain in the butt, but those masks are ridiculous
DavidAGerhardt - February 1, 2012
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