VT: #1 club LAX team in the nation. pic.twitter.com/ahW52I6Nwm— 🥋 (@SamStro757) March 2, 2024
Virginia Tech was tabbed the preseason favorite in the MCLA Division I New Balance Coaches Poll and the results for Week One has the Hokies sitting in the same exact spot.
Virginia Tech (4-0) has raced to an undefeated start to the season and just took down two Top 15 teams this past weekend by an average of 9.5 goals. Just like in the preseason, the Hokies have garnered 25 of the 27 first-place votes to push 40 points clear of the field.
Hokies are now 8-0 after beating Arizona today.
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lacrosse school nowNo. Never.Ladies face #1 Boston College tomorrow. That would be a big upset for them.
I just checked, BC won this one 20-7.
Ladies started out well but it went downhill quickly after that
Before Covid, we had a study shared with us that showed our student body, on average, had actually become the most affluent, least diverse in the entire ACC, outpacing that of UVA and UNC, due to the volume of kids we are admitting out of NOVA.
Wouldn't scoff too much at this, we're much closer to being that kind of school than you'd initially think.
This is my point. VT sits in the literal hot bed- in fact only real "area" for lacrosse outside of Denver, Co. and parts of the NE (syracuse) - the mid-Atlantic has always been THE capitol, hotbed, etc. of lacrosse. Nobody in Arizona plays lacrosse. It's not on the radar in texas, florida or california on any scale either. Its a maryland/virginia thing and always has been. Loyola is the size of pritchard hall, and they have had nationally ranked lacrosse teams. Johns Hopkins- an inner city medical school is a lacrosse power. I guess the fact that we have never won a championship in anything clouds my thoughts on this. Yes I am jealous that Maryland can build a lacrosse program that rolls out of bed and wins titles.
I did not realize when I was growing up, that lacrosse was not played everywhere.
I brought my STX out to California and nobody knew what the hell it was.
I was a goalie and then later crease attack or crease midfielder depending on the team.
You keep bring up VT lacking a title. So my question is which men's team would you do for lacrosse?
Wrestling seems the most obvious because while we are doing great we are no where close to competing with the top teams.
I haven't heard and the about Tennis and it's been years for golf.
Really only baseball and soccer should be safe, we've shown we can win there and it only takes a couple of players to put you over the top. We've had some really good track and field athletes but never enough to do well at the championships. We would really have to up our recruiting there.
Swimming and Diving or Cross country
Good for the boys! Being number 1 is usually a good thing.
... How the turn tables!
Maryland and UVA are national powers annually 2.5 and 4 hours away from VT. Of course Sands and co. could not make this work as a viable varsity sport. Impossible I guess.
The other part is which women's sport do you add alongside it to be in compliance with Title IX, or which other men's sport do we drop.
Good Question. I would add a women's team we could win a national title in to break the jinx. Women's archery? etc
Make it a coed team.
Well and the funding and such, you know scholarships, recruiting an entire team, paying coaches, building facilities you know everything need to start a sport from scratch ... or we'll two sports as you mentioned.
Right, like firing underperforming coaches- which dozens of schools do every year- standing up a sport is impossible for lil ole VT. I get it.
It's not, but where is the ROI? If it's not football or basketball it's a cost center. Should we keep coaches longer so we don't have to pay buyouts so we can afford lacrosse?
As a journalism major from 03-07, and big lax fan overall, I interviewed one of the higher ups in the athletic department sometime during that time frame for a class project. Forget the guy's name, but he said men's lax was discussed a lot but adding a women's team and $$$ made it something they couldn't do at the time. 20 years later, who knows? Might be the same reasoning.
I guess it's time for me to check on the rugby team too.
Annnnndddddd it's gone. Upset by #24 Colorado on the 4th.
I will say this team remains a significant MCLA power program. When I was there, we were good, but not top of the class good. Hoping the boys can break through and bring the big prize home this year.
Awesome, this is my 16 yr olds first year playing lacrosse and scored his first goal last night. It's pretty fun to watch though I'm still learning the rules. Makes me wish I would have played when I was in HS.
Club Lacrosse lost 16-13 to BYU for the 2026 MCLA National Championship yesterday.