BALTIMORE, Dec. 9, 2011 – US Lacrosse has announced the U.S. women’s senior teams rosters for the 2012 Champion Challenge, a US Lacrosse event. Both national teams will face off against top collegiate and international competition at ESPN Wide World of Sports Complex in Lake Buena Vista, Fla., Jan. 27-29. The U.S. women’s national senior team will play the English women’s national team (Jan. 27), as well as the top two finishers in last year’s NCAA Division I tournament, the University of Maryland (Jan. 28) and national champion Northwestern University (Jan. 29). This will be the final training opportunity for the 38-player 2011-12 squad, led by head coach Ricky Fried (Georgetown University women’s head coach), before the roster is trimmed to 24 in preparation for a summer competition tour in Oshawa, Canada, host of the 2013 World Cup. Returners from the 2009 women’s team: Sarah Albrecht (Northwestern ’06), Sarah Bullard (Duke ’09), Amber Falcone (North Carolina ’09), Megan Huether (Duke ’06), Erica LaGrow (North Carolina ’08), Caitlyn McFadden (Maryland ’10), Holly McGarvie (Princeton ’09), Lindsey Munday (Northwestern ’06), Regina Oliver (Ohio State ’05), Katie Rowan (Syracuse ’09), Acacia Walker (Maryland ’05) and Devon Wills (Dartmouth ’06).
Several Team USA members on both the men’s and women’s sides bring Florida ties to this seventh annual exhibition event. While on the women’s side, Erica LaGrow and Caitlyn McFadden both serve as assistant coaches of the University of Florida women’s team.
Full U.S. women roster
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