Girls Lacrosse
Shayna Hauczinger, Leilani Paige
PHOTO BY Ava Sedillo and Kaylie Pham Girls lacrosse at practice.
January 11, 2023
As the girls lacrosse season inches closer, so too does the debut for first time coach, Marlene Boyd, an economy and government teacher at Millikan.
“I became the coach of the girls lacrosse team at the beginning of the school year,” said Boyd, “the team didn’t have a coach and an email went out to the staff seeking interested teachers, so I responded to the email.”
In the ‘21-’22 season, the team went 4-4 overall and 4-2 in Moore League. Then junior Carly Brenner was a top performer on the team, with a total of 18 goals scored throughout the season.
“Our varsity team has a wealth of lacrosse IQ, so I wouldn’t say that any one player is ‘improving’, but varsity is definitely getting stronger,” said Boyd.
The team’s come-up is strong. These players definitely have a lot of potential to achieve with most players scoring above 15 goals all season. The girls have practices where they do agility drills mixed in with strengthening fundamentals and conditioning.
The first season game that the Millikan family can come to support is their Moore League opener here on Mar. 7 at 4:00 PM.
Madalyn Flores • Feb 6, 2023 at 11:32 am
On January 11, Jeremy Tokudomi wrote an article titled “Girls Lacrosse”. The article is an overview of the girls lacrosse previous season and some quotes from new head coach Marlene Boyd. As someone who is on the team it makes me happy to see some recognition towards the team and our new coach. With the previous season having many bumps in the road behind the scenes the team couldn’t be happier to have Coach Boyd as our coach as she’s opening many new opportunities for us and willing to go through with the obstacles of coaching a highschool sports team and being a teacher here at Millikan. The girls lacrosse team went into this school with low hope of finding a coach or finding a chance to practice and prepare for the upcoming season but with our new coach, any worries have been reduced to zero as the team grows together with our coach and we prepare together for the 2023 spring season. The article also mentions a few successes from our previous season. Although Carly Brenner was written as a junior in the article, she was a senior apart from the 7 that graduated last year. Carly was an outstanding player and a team player. The girls lacrosse team misses our talented seniors from last year but are ready to work even harder from the past and create new relationships and team bonding experiences with new incoming players and continue to bond with our returning players. Overall the girls lacrosse team has worked hard to overcome any obstacles through the past season and are ready to work for our spring season. We are all so grateful for our new head coach, Marlene Boyd and we hope to make this season better than the last. Thank you for writing this article, all of our Millikan sports teams work hard everyday and deserve any recognition given, I look forward to any more articles coming from the corydon.
Bennett Hreschuk • Jan 31, 2023 at 1:01 pm
On January 20th Jeremy Tokudomi (The) wrote an article titled “Girls Lacrosse”. The article details some key contributing factors to Millikan’s Varsity Girls Lacrosse team’s upcoming 2023 season. After a very good season last year they are looking to do even better this year and beat their rivals Wilson. This was a very good reminder for me because I had entirely forgotten about the girl’s lacrosse season. Before she became the new head coach I had never heard of Marlene Boyd, but she seems to be doing a great job after stepping up as their new head coach. Now we just have to wait for their season. The girls lacrosse team also had coaching issues last year, so hopefully having their coaching situation sorted out will usher in a new wave of success for the team. They are currently in good position to make a run at the Moore League championship which would be a huge accomplishment for the still young program. Seeing them do well last year was very impressive and this year seems only to have more promise. Their league however is a very tough one, so it will be a difficult battle in the race for the Moore League title.