5/10/2006 - On Tuesday, May 9, a seeding change by the ECAC for this weekend's Women's Lacrosse Upstate Championships has affected Mount Saint Vincent's participation. While the Dolphins will still play this coming Saturday at 4:00 p.m., the Mount has been dropped to the #4 seed and will now face top-seeded Montclair State. The game will take place at the Florham campus of Fairleigh Dickinson University. Mount Saint Vincent faced Montclair State twice during the 2006 season, losing 17-3 to the Red Hawks on April 22, and 18-1 in the Skyline Conference Semifinals on April 26. The winner of Saturday's game will face the winner of the other semifinal game between #2 Elmira College and #3 Hartwick College on Sunday, May 14 at 4:00 p.m., also at FDU-Florham. More...

5/6/2006 - Freshman Ciara O’Donnell (Bethpage, NY/Kellenberg) netted career highs in goals (5), assists (3), and points (8), and junior Beth Clark (Silver Spring, MD/St. John’s Prep) also set career highs, adding three goals and two assists as the Mount Saint Vincent Women’s Lacrosse team scored the game’s first 14 goals en route to a 19-5 win over visiting Cazenovia College on Saturday during a game played at Wien Stadium. With the win, the Mount finishes the 2006 season with a 9-9 record, their second consecutive campaign at .500 or better. More...

5/1/2006 - The first year of Conference play for the Mount Saint Vincent Women’s Lacrosse team proved to be a success in more ways than one. Not only did the Dolphins finish 3-3 against Skyline Conference competition and advance to the Skyline Semifinals on April 26, but their success throughout the 2006 campaign earned a whopping five Dolphins All-Conference honors. The result of the All-Conference vote was announced on Monday, May 1. More...

4/26/2006 - When it was all over, the scoreboard may have declared an 18-1 Montclair State victory in the Skyline Conference Women's Lacrosse Semifinals, but there were volumes it could not speak.  The final score said nothing of the fact that the visiting team had only come into existence 13 months earlier, and had a starting line-up without a single player older than sophomore year. And not only was this the Mount’s first time in the playoffs, it marked the first time during the 2005-06 academic year that a Mount Saint Vincent team in any sport had advanced to the Skyline Conference playoffs. With a young roster and a spirited 8-8 season under their belts, Wednesday’s game was not nearly as important as the experience the team gained as they try to reach the upper echelon of the Skyline Conference. And for a while on Wednesday, it seemed like the Mount had done just that. More...

4/24/2006 - Sophomore Marie Garcia (Medford, MA/Medford HS) registered a career-high six assists, and freshman Ciara O’Donnell (Bethpage, NY/Kellenberg) chipped in four goals and two assists as the Mount Saint Vincent Women’s Lacrosse team raced out to a 15-3 first half lead en route to a 22-9 win over St. Joseph’s (CT) during a game played on Monday at St. Joseph’s. With the win, Mount Saint Vincent improves to 8-8 for the 2006 season with one regular season game to play. More...

4/22/2006 - Sophomore Amanda Nadhir (Bloomfield Hills, MI/Marian) scored her 24th and 25th goals of the 2006 season, and goalie Tara Staples (Clifton Park, NY/Shenendahowa HS) stopped six out of 12 shots during the second half of play, but the Mount Saint Vincent Women’s Lacrosse team saw their two-game winning streak snapped, 17-3 at the hands of Skyline Conference leader Montclair State during a game played at Montclair on Saturday. More...

4/19/2006 - Sophomores Marie Garcia (Medford, MA/Medford HS) and Cyndi Adams (Mechanicsville, MD/Chopticon HS) combined for nine points, and freshman Ciara O’Donnell (Bethpage, NY/Kellenberg) registered her seventh hat trick of the 2006 season as the Mount Saint Vincent Women’s Lacrosse team downed Western Connecticut 17-4 in a non-conference home game played at Maritime College. With the win, the Dolphins improve their record to 7-7 for the 2006 season, and have three regular season games remaining along with the Skyline Conference playoffs. More...

4/18/2006 - Three years later, the Mount Saint Vincent Women’s Lacrosse program has finally reached a height once dreamed about when the sport was introduced as a club program during the Fall of 2003. There were major steps to be taken. 2004 was the program’s club season. 2005 was the team’s first at the varsity level. And 2006 marked the first time Mount Saint Vincent entered a Conference for Women’s Lacrosse as the Skyline Conference began sponsoring the sport prior to this season. And after three long years of building a Women’s Lacrosse dream from scratch, Mount Saint Vincent is heading to the post-season. With Tuesday’s 16-4 rout of Centenary, the Dolphins have clinched the fourth and final seed in next week’s Skyline Conference playoffs to go along with their 6-7 overall record and 3-2 mark in Conference play. More...

4/12/2006 - Seven games during a 13-day stretch later, the Mount Saint Vincent Women’s Lacrosse team now knows what it takes to compete in Division III lacrosse. During a brutal stretch that included nearly 1/2 of the team’s 2006 schedule during a less than two week span, the Dolphins finished 2-5, but at the same time experienced the kind of growth and learning needed as the budding program enters the home stretch of its second season. The latest lesson came on Wednesday, when Freshman Ciara O’Donnell (Bethpage, NY/Kellenberg) netted her fifth hat trick of the 2006 season, and junior goalie Tara Staples (Clifton Park, NY/Shenendahowa HS) came in relief to make 10 saves during 36 minutes of action while allowing only seven goals, but Mount Saint Vincent had a two-game winning streak broken by Stevens on Wednesday, 16-4 More...

4/11/2006 - For the first time during the 2005-06 academic year, three Mount Saint Vincent Student-Athletes earned weekly awards from the Skyline Conference as sophomore Baseball pitcher Jon O’Leary (Bohemia, NY/Connetquot HS) was named Pitcher of the Week, freshman Women’s Lacrosse attacker Ciara O’Donnell (Bethpage, NY/Kellenberg) was named Rookie of the Week, and freshman Softball catcher/infielder Jillian Troncoso (West Haverstraw, NY/West Haverstraw HS) was named Rookie of the Week. More...

4/10/2006 - Sophomore Cyndi Adams (Mechanicsville, MD/Chopticon HS) scored a career-high six goals and added an assist, and fellow sophomore Amanda Nadhir (Bloomfield Hills, MI/Marian) added four goals and three assists as the Mount Saint Vincent Women’s Lacrosse team won for the second straight game, 18-8 over visiting Farmingdale during a game played at Wien Stadium at Columbia University. More...

4/8/2006 - There are few words or phrases to describe the magnitude of the win in the larger context of the development of the Mount Saint Vincent Women’s Lacrosse program other than the fact that Saturday’s 15-9 triumph over Kean University was simply the biggest win in the history of the program. Two years after falling 27-4 to Kean as a club team and a year after dropping a 16-15 heartbreaker to the Cougars as a first-year varsity program, Mount Saint Vincent entered Saturday’s home opener as a team on a mission to not only keep its hopes at a Skyline Conference playoff berth alive, but to earn respectability over the NJAC powerhouse and arch-nemesis of Mount Saint Vincent for the last two years. By halftime, both goals were all but reached as the Dolphins jumped out to an 8-3 lead after 30 minutes, and never looked back. More...

4/6/2006 - The first taste of the “big time” for the Mount Saint Vincent Women’s Lacrosse team proved to be a valuable experience for the Dolphins on Thursday night as the Mount proved to be competitive with the defending National Champion College of New Jersey, falling 15-3 in front of a packed Lion Stadium on the campus of TCNJ. With their fourth straight loss, Mount Saint Vincent falls to 3-6 for the 2006 season, but the experience of hanging tough with a TCNJ program that has won 12 of the last 21 NCAA Division III National Championships could prove to be invaluable as the young Mount team continues its development. More...

4/4/2006 - Just when it seemed like the Mount Saint Vincent Women’s Lacrosse season was beginning to slip away, the young Dolphin team did everything on Tuesday to prove that they are very much alive and kicking … everything except win their Skyline Conference opener against Manhattanville College. After losing consecutive games to Babson and Vassar last week by a combined 22 goals, the Dolphins suited up Tuesday afternoon for their first ever Conference game against a Valiant team that on Saturday stunned the Skyline lacrosse world with an upset win over Stevens. More...

4/1/2006 - Sophomore Amanda Nadhir (Bloomfield Hills, MI/Marian) had a goal and two assists, and fellow sophomores Chanel Comis (Durham, N.C./Cardinal Gibbons) and Maureen Payne (Bloomfield Hills, MI/Marian) scored two goals each, but the Mount Saint Vincent Women’s Lacrosse team suffered its second straight loss, 18-9 to Vassar College on Saturday. More...

3/30/2006 - Sophomore Marie Garcia (Medford, MA/Medford HS) scored twice, and fellow sophomores Chanel Comis  (Durham, NC/Cardinal Gibbons) and Amanda Nadhir (Bloomfield Hills, MI/Marian) scored a goal apiece, but the Mount Saint Vincent Women’s Lacrosse team fell to 3-3 after a 17-4 drubbing at the hands of Babson College during a night game played at Babson. More...

3/29/2006 - Mount Saint Vincent freshman softball pitcher Jessica Riddle (Billerica, MA/Billerica HS) was named the Hudson Valley Women’s Athletic Conference (HVWAC) Player of the Week this week after an impressive week of play despite an 0-2 record on the mound. The honor was the first conference award for the rookie who is currently 1-6 on the mound for Mount Saint Vincent. Riddle was not the only Dolphin athlete to be honored this week by a Conference as Women’s Lacrosse sophomore Maureen Payne (Bloomfield Hills, MI/Marian) and freshman Stacie Tripp (Glen Cove, NY/Glen Cove HS) were both named to the Skyline Conference Honor Roll. More...

3/27/2006 - Sophomore Maureen Payne (Bloomfield Hills, MI/Marian) netted eight points during two games and was dominant as the Mount’s Center, and a Dolphin defense led by sophomore Michelle Yarger (Chantilly, VA/Chantilly HS), sophomore Erin Davies (Islip, NY/Islip HS), and freshman Megan Fleri (Islip, NY/Islip HS) held two opponents to a combined seven goals as the Mount Saint Vincent Women’s Lacrosse team improved to 3-2 with a weekend sweep of Keuka College and Medaille College during a trip to upstate New York. More...

3/21/2006 - Freshman Ciara O’Donnell (Bethpage, NY/Kellenberg) notched her second consecutive hat trick, sophomore Marie Garcia (Medford, MA/Medford HS) scored twice and added an assist, and freshman goalie Alexis Balingcongan (Glen Cove, NY/Glen Cove HS) made 18 saves, but the Mount Saint Vincent Women’s Lacrosse team fell to 1-2 with a 15-9 loss to FDU-Florham during a game played at FDU. More...

3/20/2006 - Mount Saint Vincent freshman baseball player Josh Cuozzo (Westbury, NY/Clarke HS) was named the Skyline Conference Rookie of the Week this week after an incredible 10-game stretch in Fort Pierce, Florida in which the Dolphins finished 5-5. The infielder hit an incredible .471 during the week, and is currently ranked among the Skyline Conference leaders in both batting average and hits. More...

3/16/2006 - If the first week of the second season of Women’s Lacrosse at Mount Saint Vincent proved anything, it made it clear that the 2006 season is going to be a thriller for the Dolphins. Coming off of a remarkable inaugural season in which they finished 12-4, the Mount headed south this week to Wellington, Florida to play their first two games of the year. The games were near carbon copies of each other with the Mount dropping a 7-6 heartbreaker to SUNY Potsdam on Tuesday night before winning a 9-8 thriller over Puget Sound on Thursday. More...

2/2/2006 - On the heels of an inaugural varsity campaign that saw them finish 12-4 in 2005, the Mount Saint Vincent Women’s Lacrosse team will enter 2006 with a challenge atypical of a second-year varsity program. Not only will the Dolphins compete in the newly-created Skyline Women’s Lacrosse Conference, but the Mount’s 2006 schedule features a significant upgrade in competition fairly uncommon for teams still in their infancy. More...

9/9/2005 - Mount Saint Vincent Head Women’s Lacrosse Coach Michael Spinner has been named Head Coach of a team of American College Lacrosse players that will compete in the Down Under Cup this Spring in Australia. The team will represent USA Athletes International, and will face teams from Australia, Japan, New Zealand, and several other countries during the annual Tournament that will be held in Melbourne from June 5-17. More...

5/10/2005 - Only days after the conclusion of an incredible inaugural season in which they finished 12-4, the Mount Saint Vincent Women’s Lacrosse team received more good news today, as they will join the Skyline Conference for Women’s Lacrosse, beginning in the 2006 season. More...