Saint Rose to add men's lacrosse
David Alexander - Sports Information
Issue date: 1/20/10 Section: Sports
An era of unprecedented growth within the athletics department at The College of Saint Rose will be highlighted by another milestone throughout the coming months. The College has announced that it will add the sport of men's lacrosse with the goal of implementing a limited varsity schedule in 2011-12, and a full Northeast-10 Conference slate in 2012-13.
A national search for a head coach is currently underway, with that person expected to be on board this spring to primarily begin recruiting student-athletes for the fall 2011 freshman class.
"We are very pleased to announce our expansion into men's lacrosse, a very popular sport in the Northeast. The creation of the new Christian Plumeri Sports Complex will provide top-notch fields for lacrosse, soccer, baseball and softball. In less than 10 years from the time we joined the Northeast-10 Conference, we have transformed our athletics facilities for intercollegiate and intramural sports to among the very best in the league," said Saint Rose President Dr. R. Mark Sullivan.
Lacrosse, widely considered America's first sport, is the fastest growing sport in the NCAA. The number of participants at the Division II level nearly tripled from 1981-82 to 2007-08 according to the NCAA Sports Sponsorship and Participation Rates Report covering that time frame. In 1981-82, 476 student-athletes took part in men's lacrosse. That number ballooned to 1,258 in 2007-08.
Men's lacrosse will mark the 18th intercollegiate athletics program sponsored by the College. Saint Rose reinstated men's and women's indoor track and field in 2007-08, a year after both outdoor programs were restored. Men's golf was added in 1999-00. Student-athletes also don the Golden Knights logo in men's and women's cross country, women's volleyball, men's and women's soccer, women's tennis, men's and women's basketball, men's and women's swimming and diving, baseball, and softball.
Those teams have consistently performed superlatively both in the athletics arena and in the classroom. One hundred and thirty-four Saint Rose student-athletes were selected to the NE-10 Commissioner's Honor Roll for the spring 2009 semester in recognition of earning at least a 3.0 grade-point-average (based on a 4.0 scale). Furthermore, those 134 representatives were derived from a demographic of 284 student-athletes and thus accounted for 47.2 percent of the school's student-athlete population.
A national search for a head coach is currently underway, with that person expected to be on board this spring to primarily begin recruiting student-athletes for the fall 2011 freshman class.
"We are very pleased to announce our expansion into men's lacrosse, a very popular sport in the Northeast. The creation of the new Christian Plumeri Sports Complex will provide top-notch fields for lacrosse, soccer, baseball and softball. In less than 10 years from the time we joined the Northeast-10 Conference, we have transformed our athletics facilities for intercollegiate and intramural sports to among the very best in the league," said Saint Rose President Dr. R. Mark Sullivan.
Lacrosse, widely considered America's first sport, is the fastest growing sport in the NCAA. The number of participants at the Division II level nearly tripled from 1981-82 to 2007-08 according to the NCAA Sports Sponsorship and Participation Rates Report covering that time frame. In 1981-82, 476 student-athletes took part in men's lacrosse. That number ballooned to 1,258 in 2007-08.
Men's lacrosse will mark the 18th intercollegiate athletics program sponsored by the College. Saint Rose reinstated men's and women's indoor track and field in 2007-08, a year after both outdoor programs were restored. Men's golf was added in 1999-00. Student-athletes also don the Golden Knights logo in men's and women's cross country, women's volleyball, men's and women's soccer, women's tennis, men's and women's basketball, men's and women's swimming and diving, baseball, and softball.
Those teams have consistently performed superlatively both in the athletics arena and in the classroom. One hundred and thirty-four Saint Rose student-athletes were selected to the NE-10 Commissioner's Honor Roll for the spring 2009 semester in recognition of earning at least a 3.0 grade-point-average (based on a 4.0 scale). Furthermore, those 134 representatives were derived from a demographic of 284 student-athletes and thus accounted for 47.2 percent of the school's student-athlete population.
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