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.
29 years old. Extremely bold hire that I think will work. 2-time Tewaarton winner which is like winning the heisman twice. Oh by the way, she isn't even taking the job until mid-July. She's still PLAYING professionally for the Australian national team. She's from Adelaide.
Crikey!
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...
Okay, how is THIS not a WD post?
The blog.
He created a thread earlier and is literally the first comment on this thread.
I am uncool as all hell for not reading every post, and for missing the big return.
Welcome back, WD.
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
And been back for a few hours now. Even created a thread earlier today.
And been back for a few hours now. Even created a thread earlier today.
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.
Payback for Donlon?
I don't think taking an assistant women's lacrosse coach is the same thing as an assistant men's basketball coach...
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.
Maybe let's pump the brakes. This is the best league in the country. Maryland is unstoppable right now, Northwestern had a dynasty not that long ago and Hopkins is still Hopkins. Plus PSU is really good. Just gotta compete with those 4 teams and upset them here and there to start out. I'm more excited about this hire than Kevin Conry with the Men's program, actually.
Her youth and the fact she's arguably the WLAX OG is gonna be huge for recruiting. And add a brand new stadium and team center into the mix.
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