Hannah Nielsen is the new women lax coach
Did not see posted. UM has found its women lacrosse coach. Hannah Nielsen, who is perhaps to most celebrated women lacrosse player in the BIG if not the country, will lead the program. She had a great career at NW, let's see what she can do for our program.
fair dinkum
It would be like winning the Heisman twice, if only rich white people were eligible for the Heisman.
/s...kinda
Of one of our teams hiring someone who could potentially have great impact on our program! I know Michigan is still relatively young in Lacrosse but both men and women teams are on a great trajectory.
GO BLUE!!
That's certainly an attention-grabbing hire by Warde Manuel. Very nice.
Very true. It's not often that your new coach is the illegitimate love child of Daryl Hannah and Brigitte Nielsen. Very tall, very blonde...
Welcome back and am happy that you have made awesome life changes!
OMG, Mom is sooooooo not cool or hip or "with it"...
Because WD quit this site for a while
Suzy Favor award winner. Nice!
[I'll go ahead and downvote myself.]
I'll finish the joke for you: Which Suzy Favor award?
She's definitely young but she has a fantastic resume for her age. You can't do much more than what she's done. A bit of a risk given her age but I think a risk worth taking.
BC's head coach, Acacia Walker, was hired at the same age, and she's taken them from mid-level ACC to Top 5 team nationally relatively quickly, in part from being willing to pluck recruits from non-traditional locations like North Carolina.
Head coaches at UM are now younger than me? That makes me sad.
It looks like they could not have done a better job with this hire...4x Nat'l Champ and 2x best player in country, plus young enough to relate to her players and you know her live examples will be as good or better than the girls will ever see in a game.
It only took NW 3-4 years after starting their program to win 4-straight national titles, so it's pretty reasonable to expect our new coach makes women's lax a real contender in a hurry.
Welcome back, WD...
ACC is stronger by a country mile, even after losing Maryland. The worst team in the ACC is VA Tech, while the next worst is who, Duke? They're all ranked top 25