Former WNUR Sports Director Jim Sannes (@JimSannes) takes a look back at the season that was in Northwestern Wildcat athletics and hands out his awards for Male and Female Athlete of the Year and more. First of all, thanks to all of the service members and veterans, including my father Mark, for doing what they do. You all make this
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WNUR Sports Online Content Director Cameron Songer (@CameronSonger) invents a few changes to the rules of NCAA women’s lacrosse to draw more fans and make the game more exciting. In case you hadn’t heard by now, Northwestern has a really good lacrosse team. Their recent stretch (this is their ninth consecutive trip to the Final Four) receives some publicity around
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WNUR Sports Director Joe Misulonas (@jmisulonas) compares the end of Northwestern’s lacrosse season to the end of a TV series. Last week, NBC aired the series finale of “The Office.” A beloved comedy show came to a sweet end which tied up all the character arcs and delivered the bittersweet moments fans expected for the final episode. Series finales are
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WNUR’s Lynden Ostrander previews tonight’s NCAA lacrosse quarterfinals matchup between Northwestern and Penn State. Northwestern will meet the Penn State Nittany Lions in the NCAA Quarterfinals on Friday for the right to play in the NCAA semifinals. So, you could say this is kind of a big game. Even more so this holds true for the Cats’ seven seniors as
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Former WNUR Sports Director Jim Sannes (@JimSannes) profiles the career of Northwestern women’s lacrosse’s Taylor Thornton and shows where she ranks among Northwestern’s all-time greats. Sunday, in the second round of the 2013 NCAA Women’s Lacrosse tournament, Taylor Thornton lost her mind. The senior for the Wildcats dodged, ducked, dipped, dove and dodged her way to three goals while picking
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WNUR Sports’s Lynden Ostrander (@Lynden_O) previews today’s match-up in the second round of the NCAA women’s lacrosse tournament between the Northwestern University Wildcats and the Stanford University Cardinal. Is it any surprise that the Cats’ are a number 2 seed in the NCAA tourney? I mean they’ve only won seven of the last eight championships… yeah, no big deal. Even
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WNUR’s Lynden Ostrander recaps the regular season for the Northwestern Women’s Lacrosse team and previews this weekend’s ALC tournament in Baltimore, Maryland. The Wildcats finished off the regular season on a strong note in two regards. First, they trounced rival Penn at home 15-8 in their final regular season game. Second, five Wildcat players made the All –ALC team. Erin
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Check out our highlights from today’s Northwestern Women’s Lacrosse game. It was the final game of the regular season, and the last time Erin Fitzgerald, Beatrice Conley, Taylor Thornton, Ali Cassera, Alexa deLyra, Gabriella Flibotte, and Amanda Macaluso. The Wildcats would go on to defeat the Penn Quakers 15-8. Enjoy!
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WNUR’s Lynden Ostrander recaps the past week for the Northwestern Women’s Lacrosse team and preview their upcoming game against no. 16 ranked Penn. After getting walloped by 2nd ranked Florida 22-4, the No. 4 Northwestern Wildcats bounced back with a 10-8 win over 9th ranked Notre Dame on Thursday, heading into Saturday’s game against rival #16 Penn. Yes, the Cats’
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WNUR’s Lynden Ostrander takes a look at Saturday’s match-up between the No. 4 Northwestern Wildcats women’s lacrosse team and the No. 3 Florida Gators that swept the ‘Cats in their season series last year. Welcome to the second week of my column. Is there even a need for an intro when you’re talking about the seven-time Division 1 women’s lacrosse
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Former WNUR Sports Director Jim Sannes (@JimSannes) gives four reasons that the Northwestern Wildcats women’s lacrosse team should be favored yet again to win this year’s national championship. I realize I’m not making a ground-breaking statement by saying that the team that has won seven of the last eight national championships is a favorite to win it again this year.
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Check out our highlights from yesterday’s Northwestern Women’s Lacrosse victory over no. 9 ranked Duke Blue Devils, their 10th straight. Erin Fitzgerald scores 5 goals, Conley, Cassera, Thornton, Craig all contribute goals for Northwestern, and Alyssa Leonard gets her 269th career draw control, the most in Northwestern Women’s Lacrosse history.
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