Liberty Lacrosse
Blog: Wednesday, March 22, 2017, 12:54 p.m.
It is crazy to think the lacrosse season is about half over.
It feels just like yesterday that we were up in Indiana and Butler and Notre
Dame. Right now, I am on the bus working on some stuff prior to our game at
William & Mary. We had lunch at Chili’s, and I was able to sit with Kat,
Emily, and Nikki. We talked about anything and everything, from cats and dogs
to weddings to siblings.
I wasn’t able to go on the team’s last road trip to George
Mason and Robert Morris, which I was super bummed about. But I’m happy to be
going on this one today and hoping to get a win.
The rest of this post will be a reflection of where we’ve
come up to this point. I didn’t blog about the last three days of the Indiana
trip, but I’ll say I did get to witness lacrosse games for the first time ever
in person. We lost to No. 8 Notre Dame but bounced back for a win at Butler on
Sunday. On that trip, we had dinner one night at Bailey Meador’s parents’ house
in Indianapolis. Sunday was a super long day of travel, and I had been getting
sick for the few days leading up to that. I was exhausted, and some of the
girls had gotten sick too.
Which brings me to the flight from Atlanta to Roanoke, more
specifically the landing in Roanoke. It was crazy windy, and our plane wobbled
as it got lower and lower. It was definitely a turbulent and bumpy landing, as
evidenced by the pilots choosing to flip on the emergency lights prior to
landing. That brings me to the funniest/grossest thing-a guy on our flight
legitimately threw up. Yes, tossed his cookies. Yacked.
We had four straight home games vs. Richmond, Virginia Tech,
Navy and Old Dominion, where I got my first taste of doing the live stats at a
game. Todd and I made a good team for each of the games, and I enjoyed the home
game experience and having a home crowd. After the games, I worked on my
story/stats in the team room and then went on to the tailgate. The tailgates
for lacrosse certainly did not disappoint!
Mixed somewhere in there, I believe before the ODU game, was
a dinner at Kristie Beitz’s house. Kristie outdid herself with excellent
appetizers, a main course and delicious cookies. I was able to play a little
bit of the card game Five Crowns before we started the group game, Plot. Nikki,
Bri, Hannah and I were the subjects of the game and were instructed to try to
guess a story the rest of the group made up. Apparently the story they made up
featured elements we guessed such as: Aubrie getting killed, Fidel Castro,
Cuba, Sunshine, Florida, etc.
At the end of the game, Courtney Brown (the narrator) told
us that we sure made up a great story. I knew coming into this game, there had
to be some type of “joke’s on us” element. I just didn’t know what. Sure
enough, the joke was indeed on us.
Coming up, we have a day trip to VCU on Saturday which I’ll
be going on. Next weekend, we head down to Presbyterian for our Big South
opener next Saturday. I’m looking forward to the new adventures with this team.
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