This article needs to be updated. Please help update this article to reflect recent events or newly available information.(November 2023)
The 2014 ACC women's and men'slacrosse 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]
NCAA tournament performance (last five years)[edit]
In the previous season Maryland lost in the final of the NCAA tournament to North Carolina in the third overtime, 12-13. This season Maryland returns 9 of 15 players from that championship game. In comparison, North Carolina returns 12 of 17 players. Maryland was 22-0 going into the final game against North Carolina and had defeated North Carolina twice during the season.
North Carolina won its first championship in 2013 after current head coach Jenny Levy started the school's women's lacrosse program in 1996. In 2014 North Carolina returns 12 of the 17 players in the 2013 championship game. Brittney Coppa, one of UNC's four team captains for 2014 and a three-year starter, will miss the 2014 season after tearing her ACL in January 2014 in a game against the U.S. National Team.[7] Inside Lacrosse ranked UNC's incoming Freshman class as the best in the country.[8]
2nd team All-American in 2013, captain, in 2014 on the Tewaaraton watch list for the first time
Sydney Holman, Fr. (#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.[9] Her high school team won the state championship in her senior year and she set a new state record for career goals.[10]
Aly Messinger, So. (#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,[11] on 2014 Tewaaraton watch list
Also on the UNC women's soccer team, played in 12 of 25 games in her first year on the soccer team, ranked as the No. 2 incoming freshman in lacrosse,[13] Coach Levy said Bill's high school recruiting video was the best she has ever seen.[14] Scored four goals against Penn on 3/2/14.
Mallory Frysinger, So. (#1)
Was the only UNC freshman to start every game in 2013
Taylor George, Sr. (#23)
Started all games in 2012 and 2013
Molly Hendrick, Fr. (#20)
Scored in the first seven games of the 2014 season
Backup to Ward, played in the second half of games to start the 2014 season[15]
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.[16] She scored 12 goals when she was five years old in her first organized lacrosse game.[17] UNC women's lacrosse Coach Jenny Levy said Bill's high school recruiting video was the best she has ever seen.[18] 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.[19]
Soccer: Bill played in 12 of 25 games in her first season at UNC.[20]
Lacrosse: She was the No. 2 incoming freshman in lacrosse in the U.S.[21] 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.[22][23] 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.[24]
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.[19][25] She committed to UNC before her sophomore season in lacrosse.[25] 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[26]
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.[27]
Tewaaraton Award finalist after her Junior year.[28] 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.[28] 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[29]
