{"id":11394,"date":"2024-02-21T14:57:54","date_gmt":"2024-02-21T14:57:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress.lvc.edu\/wordpress\/lavie\/?p=11394"},"modified":"2026-08-11T19:55:55","modified_gmt":"2026-08-11T19:55:55","slug":"womens-lacrosse-has-sights-set-high","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.lvc.edu\/lavie\/2024\/02\/21\/womens-lacrosse-has-sights-set-high\/","title":{"rendered":"Women\u2019s lacrosse has sights set high"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"dslc-theme-content\"><div id=\"dslc-theme-content-inner\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">By Anna Lougee \u201924, staff writer&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The women's lacrosse team has high expectations for their first season in the MAC Freedom Conference.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">With the coaches\u2019 preseason polls placing them third in the conference, the team has plans to achieve that and more. Senior midfielder Emily Beard, a two-year captain and a crucial member of the team for the Dutchmen, has her goals set high for her last season.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe\u2019re really excited to prove ourselves within this new conference,\u201d Beard said. \u201cIt will be a good opportunity to make a name for ourselves.\"<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">By switching to the opposing side of the MAC Conference, the Dutchmen will face several teams for the first time.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIt will certainly be a challenge to see some of these teams for the first time,\u201d senior defender Riley Finnegan said. \u201cBut I think it will be exciting for our team to get to experience the fresh competition.\u201d&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The team has begun their first week of practices, with their first game approaching rapidly, where the Dutchmen will travel to Dickinson College on Saturday, Feb. 17.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>By Anna Lougee \u201924, staff writer&nbsp;&nbsp; The women's lacrosse team has high expectations for their first season in the MAC Freedom Conference.&nbsp;&nbsp; With the coaches\u2019 preseason polls placing them third in the conference, the team <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.lvc.edu\/lavie\/2024\/02\/21\/womens-lacrosse-has-sights-set-high\/\" title=\"Women\u2019s lacrosse has sights set high\">[...]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":11395,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.lvc.edu\/lavie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11394","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.lvc.edu\/lavie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.lvc.edu\/lavie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.lvc.edu\/lavie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.lvc.edu\/lavie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11394"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.lvc.edu\/lavie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11394\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17289,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.lvc.edu\/lavie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11394\/revisions\/17289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.lvc.edu\/lavie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.lvc.edu\/lavie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.lvc.edu\/lavie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}