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The 2014 ACC women's and men's lacrosse conferences will include Notre Dame and Syracuse after those teams joined the ACC in July 2013.[1] The 2014 ACC women's lacrosse conference will now include eight teams. This will be the only year that the ACC women's lacrosse conference will include these eight teams as Maryland will leave the ACC for the Big Ten at the end of the 2014 season.[2]Boston College plays in the women's ACC conference, but not the men's conference.
The finalists from the 2013 NCAA championship game, Maryland and UNC, are in the ACC conference in 2014. Additionally, Syracuse was in the final four of the 2013 NCAA championship tournament, and UVA and Duke were in the final eight. Syracuse lost to Maryland by a goal in that tournament, while UNC won the championship with a 13-12 victory against Maryland.[3] UNC's victory marked the first championship for that program, and broke Northwestern's two year streak as NCAA champions. Members of the 2014 ACC conference won two of the last four championships, with Maryland beating Northwestern in 2010. Before that Northwestern won five championships in a row.[4]
Started 20/20 games in 2014; sick backhand goal against NW in 2015; leading scorer season-to-date in 2015 (3/30/15); Head Coach Levy said Hendrick could be a dominant player[8]
Sam McGee, Sr. (#7)
Awarded first start in March 2015; played in 14/20 games in 2014
Aly Messinger, Jr. (#27)
Scored three goals in the 2013 NCAA championship game, started 17 of 21 games in 2013, one of her older sisters (Kaitlyn) played lacrosse at UNC and graduated in 2012, her other sister (Dana) played lacrosse at Vanderbilt and graduated in 2006, her uncle Roy Messinger played lacrosse at UNC and won championships in 1981 and 1982, her father played lacrosse at the University of Pennsylvania,[9] on 2014 Tewaaraton watch list
Sammy Jo Tracy, 3/5
Missed 2014 season with foot injury; scored game-winning goal in 2013 NCAA championship game
Played in 19/20 games in 2014 with one start; ranked 4th overall freshman in the nation for 2014; scored five goals against Notre Dame
Sydney Holman, So. (#10)
Her two older brothers played lacrosse at North Carolina (Marcus graduated in 2013 and Matthew graduated in 2012), her father Brian is an assistant coach of the UNC men's lacrosse team and her mother Laurie is the Director of Operations for the UNC women's lacrosse team. Her father played goalie at Johns Hopkins and her mother played lacrosse at Towson. She was a top 10-ranked recruit in the Class of 2013 and was a four-time team MVP at East Chapel Hill High School.[10] Her high school team won the state championship in her senior year and she set a new state record for career goals.[11] |-
Morgan Rubin, Sr.
Played in 4/20 games in 2014
Lindsay Scott, Sr. (#5)
Played in 7/20 games in 2014; identical twin sister of defender Sarah Scott
Started 20/20 games in 2014; on 2014-15 U.S. Women’s National Team that played Maryland and Syracuse Jan. 17-18, 2015; on the UNC women's soccer team, played in 12 of 25 games in her first year on the soccer team and started in 10 of 20 games in her second year (played in 13 of 20); was the #2 national recruit in lacrosse; Coach Levy said Bill's high school recruiting video was the best she has ever seen
Kelly Devlin, 4/5
Missed 2014 with knee injury; team captain in 2015; started all games her freshman year; will return for her redshirt senior season in 2016Cite error: A <ref> tag is missing the closing </ref> (see the help page).
Brittney Coppa, Sr.
Missed the 2014 season after tearing her ACL in January 2014 in a game against the U.S. National Team; 1st Team preseason All-American in 2014 and 2015; had assist to Sammy Jo Tracy for the goal that won UNC its first title in 2013
Other midfielders
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Mallory Frysinger, Jr. (#1)
Started 18/20 games in 2014; was the only UNC freshman to start every game in 2013
Carly Davis, RFr.
Devin Markisson, Jr.
New midfielders
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Bridget Curran
#28 Inside Lacrosse recruit, from NJ
Marie McCool
#2 Inside Lacrosse recruit; won state championship in her last three years in high school; two-time New Jersey state player of the year
Elizabeth Haus, Fr.
One cousin Will Haus is a senior on Duke lacrosse team; other cousin John is a senior on Maryland lacrosse team; three uncles played lax at UNC
On 2014-15 U.S. Women’s National Team that will play Maryland and Syracuse Jan. 17-18, 2015[13]
Maggie Bill is a freshman at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill who accomplished the rare feat of playing on two varsity college sports teams, the women's lacrosse and soccer teams, that both won national championships in their previous seasons. Bill committed to play both sports in the middle of her sophomore year in high school.[14] She scored 12 goals when she was five years old in her first organized lacrosse game.[15] UNC women's lacrosse Coach Jenny Levy said Bill's high school recruiting video was the best she has ever seen.[16] Bill's soccer team won the state championship in her last two years in high school. She was a first-team All-American in lacrosse in her sophomore year in high school. Bill is the second of six children with two brothers and three sisters.[17]
Soccer: Bill played in 12 of 25 games in her first season at UNC.[18]
Lacrosse: She was the No. 2 incoming freshman in lacrosse in the U.S.[19] and earned a starting spot on UNC's midfield. She practiced with the lacrosse team for two weeks before scoring two goals in a close loss to the U.S. national lacrosse team in an exhibition match.[20][21] After starting the first game of UNC's lacrosse season, she scored four goals in UNC's sixth game against Penn on March 2, 2014. Womenslax.com named Bill rookie of the week after her performance against Penn.[22]
Maggie Bill played for St. Anthony's High School on Long Island, New York in the Nassau Suffolk Catholic High School League. She was a first-team All-American in lacrosse her sophomore year in high school after missing her soccer season due to a torn ACL.[17][23] She committed to UNC before her sophomore season in lacrosse.[23] She also played point guard on the basketball team in addition to soccer and lacrosse.
Freshman year: Started on the varsity lacrosse team, suffered a torn ACL in at end of the lacrosse season, lacrosse team won league championship
Sophomore year: missed the soccer season due to a torn ACL, lacrosse team won league championship
Junior year: Won league and state championships in soccer, lacrosse team won league championship, MVP in championship game[24]
Senior year: Won league and state championships in soccer, soccer championship game MVP, lacrosse team won league championship for the sixth straight year. Bill had 65 goals (3.6 per game) and 18 assists (1.0 per game) in lacrosse her senior year.[25]
Tewaaraton Award finalist after her Junior year.[26] Led Syracuse in points in 2013.
Taylor Poplawski, Fr. (#19)
Played in first five games off bench and third on team in goals. In high school she was a five-time all-league first team honoree.
Kayla Treanor, So. (#21)
First freshman on women's lacrosse team at Syracuse to be named first team All-American.[26] Leading Syracuse in points after five games in 2014. Scored seven goals for the US national team against UNC in an exhibition match in January 2014[27]
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