Inaugural Women's Lacrosse Schedule Announced

All Home Games To Be Played At Medaille Sports Complex at Buffalo Color Park

1/24/2023 2:29:00 PM

By: CONTACT: Tom McDermott, Director of Athletics Communications | tmcdermo@daemen.edu

AMHERST, N.Y. – Daemen University women's lacrosse coach Dominique Hamman has announced the schedule for the program's inaugural season, which is slated to debut next month.

The 16-game schedule features 10 non-conference games and six East Coast Conference contests. Five of the 10 non-conference opponents hail from the Great Midwest Athletic Conference, including Walsh University which went 13-5 last year and has claimed back-to-back G-MAC Tournament titles.

Five of the 16 games will be home games. Those games will be played at the Medaille Sports Complex at Buffalo Color Park while Daemen awaits construction of the West Royal Park athletic complex. Daemen has a unique public-private partnership in place with the Town of Amherst to complete the West Royal Park project, which will include a multi-use stadium complete with an artificial turf playing surface as well as lighted tennis courts and other amenities. This facility will become home to the Daemen lacrosse, soccer and tennis teams upon completion.

The Wildcats will play their first ever game on Feb. 26 when they travel to Painsville, Ohio to face Lake Erie College. The program's first-ever home game will take place two days later (Feb. 28) when Daemen hosts Walsh.

The Wildcats play nine games during the month of March, beginning with road contests at the College of Saint Rose on March 3 and Le Moyne College on March 8. Le Moyne posted a 15-6 record last year and was one of 16 teams to qualify for the NCAA Division II Women's Lacrosse Championship. Daemen will then play back-to-back home games against Tiffin University on March 10 and Gannon University on March 12.

The Wildcats will then travel to Alfred University on March 15, which will be the first of five-straight road contests. Alfred is a NCAA Division III affiliate and member of the Empire 8 Conference. The non-conference portion of the schedule concludes with road games at Findlay University (March 17), Ashland University (March 19) and Edinboro University (March 23). Findlay went 11-7 last year and lost to Walsh in the championship game of the G-MAC Tournament.

The Wildcats will play their first-ever ECC game on March 31 at the University of the District of Columbia. Daemen will then host Molloy University in an ECC game on April 8, before playing back-to-back road contests at D'Youville University (April 11) and Saint Thomas Aquinas College (April 15). Daemen's final home game is slated for April 18 against Roberts Wesleyan University. The Wildcats close out their inaugural season on April 29 at Mercy College. Mercy, which has claimed two of the last three ECC Tournament titles, went 14-5 overall and 6-0 in the ECC last year and earned a bid to the 16-team NCAA Tournament.

The ECC added women's lacrosse to the conference's sponsored sports in 2006, and since then the league has produced 23 NCAA tournament teams and four national champions.

Daemen officially announced it was adding women's lacrosse as a varsity sport in June of 2021. Hamman will head up a 19-player roster that includes 11 freshmen, four sophomores, two juniors and two graduate students.

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