How did Duke women’s lacrosse perform in the 2023 season. What factors contributed to their disappointing results. What challenges and opportunities lie ahead for the team’s future.
The 2023 Season: High Expectations and Disappointing Results
The Duke women’s lacrosse team entered the 2023 season with high hopes and a No. 11 ranking. Coming off a strong 2022 campaign, the Blue Devils seemed poised for greatness. However, the season unfolded in unexpected ways, leaving fans and analysts questioning what went wrong.
Despite returning key players like NCAA all-time draw control leader Maddie Jenner, goalkeeper Sophia LeRose, and attackers Anna Callahan and Eva Greco, Duke struggled to find its footing in conference play. The team finished with a disappointing 1-8 ACC record, marking their worst conference performance in recent years.
Key Statistics
- 2023 ACC record: 1-8
- Nonconference wins: 3 solid victories to open the season
- Notable loss: 17-8 defeat against Boston College
Analyzing the Decline: What Changed from 2022 to 2023?
To understand Duke’s struggles in 2023, it’s essential to compare their performance to the previous season. Several key factors contributed to the team’s decline:
Turnover Troubles
In 2022, Duke committed 285 turnovers while causing 300 from their opponents. However, in 2023, this ratio flipped, with the Blue Devils giving up 272 turnovers while only causing 258. This shift in ball possession had a significant impact on their overall performance.
Offensive Production
The departure of fifth-year player Catriona Barry left a noticeable gap in Duke’s offensive output. In 2022, Barry and Katie DeSimone combined for 116 goals and 178 points. DeSimone’s production also dipped from 85 points in 2022 to 66 in 2023.
Statistical Comparison
| Statistic | 2022 Season | 2023 Season |
|---|---|---|
| Shots per game (vs. opponents) | +9.9 | Margin tightened |
| Turnovers | 285 (300 caused) | 272 (258 caused) |
| Katie DeSimone’s points | 85 | 66 |
Emerging Talent: Bright Spots in a Challenging Season
Despite the overall disappointing results, some players showed significant improvement and promise for the future:
- Caroline DeBellis (Senior): Experienced a breakout season with 20+ goals
- Carly Bernstein (Sophomore): Also tallied a 20-goal season, showcasing her potential
These performances highlight the importance of player development and the potential for new stars to emerge, even in challenging seasons.
The Changing of the Guard: Duke’s Transition to a New Era
As Duke women’s lacrosse looks to the future, the program faces a significant transition. With the departure of key veterans, including Maddie Jenner, the team must adapt to a new leadership structure and playing style.
Rising Leaders
Several players are poised to step into leadership roles for the Blue Devils:
- Kennedy Everson
- Kerry Nease
- Reilly Traynor
- Carly Bernstein
These players, entering their upperclassmen years, will be crucial in shaping the team’s identity and performance in the coming seasons.
The Importance of Experience
Duke has long emphasized the value of veteran leadership. How will the team adapt to a younger core of players? This transition presents both challenges and opportunities for growth and development within the program.
Recruiting and Player Development: Keys to Future Success
As Duke women’s lacrosse navigates this period of transition, the focus on recruiting and player development becomes even more critical. The success of incoming freshmen and the continued improvement of returning players will play a significant role in the team’s future prospects.
Coach Kerstin Kimel’s Approach
Head coach Kerstin Kimel has previously emphasized the importance of incoming players contributing immediately. How will this philosophy evolve with a younger team? The coaching staff’s ability to nurture talent and create a cohesive team dynamic will be crucial in the coming seasons.
Balancing Youth and Experience
With only three rising seniors (Katie DeSimone, Katie Keller, and Maddie McCorkle), Duke faces the challenge of balancing youth and experience. How can the team leverage the energy and potential of its younger players while maintaining the stability and leadership typically provided by veteran players?
The ACC Landscape: Competing in a Tough Conference
Duke’s struggles in the 2023 season highlight the competitive nature of the ACC in women’s lacrosse. To regain their standing as a top program, the Blue Devils must find ways to compete consistently against powerhouse teams like Boston College, Notre Dame, and North Carolina.
Strategies for Improvement
- Enhancing offensive efficiency
- Reducing turnovers
- Maintaining dominance in draw controls
- Developing a more balanced scoring attack
By focusing on these areas, Duke can work towards improving its conference record and overall competitiveness within the ACC.
Looking Ahead: Expectations and Goals for Future Seasons
As Duke women’s lacrosse moves forward from the disappointing 2023 season, setting realistic yet ambitious goals will be crucial for the program’s success. What should fans and observers expect from the Blue Devils in the coming years?
Short-term Objectives
- Improving ACC record
- Developing cohesive team chemistry with new leaders
- Integrating incoming freshmen effectively
Long-term Aspirations
- Returning to national rankings
- Competing for ACC championships
- Making deep runs in NCAA tournaments
By focusing on these goals, Duke can work towards reclaiming its position as a top women’s lacrosse program while navigating the challenges of this transitional period.
The Role of Fan Support and Program Culture
During periods of transition and rebuilding, the support of fans and the strength of program culture become increasingly important. How can Duke’s lacrosse community rally around the team and contribute to its future success?
Maintaining Enthusiasm
Despite the challenges of the 2023 season, maintaining fan enthusiasm and support will be crucial for the team’s morale and motivation. Engaging with the Duke lacrosse community through events, social media, and other outreach efforts can help sustain interest and excitement around the program.
Celebrating Progress
As the team works to improve, recognizing and celebrating small victories and individual achievements can help build momentum and positivity within the program. This approach can create a supportive environment for players to develop and thrive.
Lessons from Adversity: How Challenges Can Lead to Growth
While the 2023 season was undoubtedly disappointing for Duke women’s lacrosse, it also presents valuable learning opportunities. How can the team use this experience as a catalyst for growth and improvement?
Developing Resilience
Facing adversity can help players and coaches develop mental toughness and resilience. These qualities will be invaluable as the team works to rebuild and compete at a high level in the coming seasons.
Identifying Areas for Improvement
The challenges of the 2023 season have highlighted specific areas where Duke needs to improve. This clarity can help focus training efforts and strategic planning for future campaigns.
The Impact of Coaching and Leadership
As Duke women’s lacrosse navigates this period of transition, the role of head coach Kerstin Kimel and her staff becomes even more critical. How can the coaching team adapt their approach to meet the needs of a younger, less experienced squad?
Adapting Coaching Strategies
With a shift towards a younger core of players, coaches may need to adjust their teaching methods and leadership styles. This could involve more hands-on instruction, increased focus on fundamentals, and a greater emphasis on team building and chemistry.
Fostering Leadership Among Players
Encouraging leadership development among the rising juniors and seniors will be crucial for the team’s success. Coaches can create opportunities for players to take on more responsibility and guide their younger teammates both on and off the field.
Leveraging Technology and Analytics in Player Development
In the modern era of collegiate sports, leveraging technology and data analytics can provide a competitive edge. How can Duke women’s lacrosse incorporate these tools to enhance player development and team performance?
Performance Tracking
Utilizing advanced metrics and video analysis can help coaches and players identify areas for improvement more precisely. This data-driven approach can lead to more targeted training and strategic adjustments.
Personalized Training Programs
By leveraging technology, the coaching staff can create more personalized training programs for each player, addressing individual strengths and weaknesses more effectively.
Building a Sustainable Program: Beyond Individual Seasons
While addressing the immediate challenges is important, Duke women’s lacrosse must also focus on building a sustainable program that can compete at a high level year after year. What steps can be taken to ensure long-term success?
Consistent Recruiting
Maintaining a strong recruiting pipeline is essential for sustained success. Duke must continue to attract top talent while also identifying players who fit well with the program’s culture and playing style.
Alumni Engagement
Fostering strong relationships with program alumni can provide valuable support, mentorship, and networking opportunities for current players. This connection to the program’s history can also help maintain a sense of tradition and pride.
The Broader Context: Women’s Lacrosse in the NCAA
Duke’s challenges and transition period occur within the larger context of women’s lacrosse in the NCAA. How does the program’s situation reflect broader trends or changes in the sport?
Increasing Competitiveness
The increasing competitiveness of women’s lacrosse at the collegiate level means that programs like Duke must continually evolve and improve to maintain their standing. This dynamic environment creates both challenges and opportunities for growth.
Emerging Programs
As more schools invest in women’s lacrosse programs, the landscape of the sport continues to change. Duke must navigate this evolving environment while working to reestablish itself as a top-tier program.
As Duke women’s lacrosse moves forward from the challenges of the 2023 season, the program faces a pivotal moment in its history. The transition to a younger core of players, coupled with the departure of key veterans, presents both obstacles and opportunities. By focusing on player development, strategic recruitment, and adaptive coaching, the Blue Devils can work towards reclaiming their position as a competitive force in the ACC and NCAA women’s lacrosse landscape.
The coming seasons will be crucial in determining the trajectory of Duke’s program. Fans, players, and coaches alike will need to embrace the process of growth and rebuilding, celebrating small victories while working towards larger goals. With a commitment to excellence and a willingness to adapt, Duke women’s lacrosse has the potential to emerge from this period of transition stronger and more resilient than ever.
As the team looks to the future, the lessons learned from the 2023 season can serve as a foundation for improvement and innovation. By leveraging new technologies, fostering leadership among players, and maintaining a strong program culture, Duke can build a sustainable model for success in women’s lacrosse. The challenges ahead are significant, but they also offer an opportunity for the program to redefine itself and set new standards of excellence in collegiate lacrosse.
Column: After disappointing 2023 season, it’s time for Duke women’s lacrosse to begin its next chapter
NCAA all-time draw control leader Maddie Jenner is one of many Blue Devils head coach Kirsten Kimel returned for the 2023 season.
Photo by Seth Kessler |
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After a fairytale regular-season run in 2022, Duke began the 2023 season with a No. 11 ranking and conference — and national — title hopes. With Tewaaraton Award nominee and First Team All-American Maddie Jenner, the draw control queen, star goalkeeper Sophia LeRose and attackers Anna Callahan and Eva Greco all returning for fifth years, the Blue Devils’ losses seemed minimal. They were poised for greatness, teetering on the brink of ACC success.
The expectations ignored Duke’s collapse in Chapel Hill to end the regular season, its conference tournament destruction at the hands of Notre Dame and its quick second-round exit from the NCAA tournament.
After three solid nonconference wins to open its season, including a 24-1 victory against Gardner-Webb in which Jenner became the NCAA all-time draw leader, the Blue Devils headed up to Chestnut Hill, Mass. They had beaten Boston College the season prior in epic fashion, seemingly proving their validity as a contender. Less than a year later, they were primed to do the exact same thing.
Duke trailed just 38 seconds in and was never able to catch back up, losing 17-8.
It beat Liberty at home days later, but fell again March 4 to Notre Dame. From there, the dominos just kept on falling. The Blue Devils lost four straight, three of which were ACC contests, before beating East Carolina and finally tallying their first conference win against Pittsburgh.
They would lose the remainder of their regular-season conference matches, their 1-8 ACC record putting them second-to-last in the rankings and marking the worst finish in years.
So, what happened?
Last season, Duke took 9.9 more shots per game than its opponents. It didn’t allow woman-down goals, caused nearly as many turnovers as it gave up and utterly dominated in the draw circle. This season, while it still won the majority of possessions, every other margin was tightened or flipped. The biggest difference is in its turnover numbers. In 2022, while playing two more games, the Blue Devils committed 285 turnovers to their opponents’ 300, 231 of which were caused. In 2023 they still gave the ball away 272 times to their opponents’ 258, only causing 191 of those.
All in all, Duke played messier. It was losing precious possessions while its offensive efficiency was decreasing.
More than efficiency, the Blue Devils lacked offensive power. In 2022 the one-two punch of Catriona Barry and Katie DeSimone combined for 116 goals and 178 points.
DeSimone’s own numbers dipped from 85 points last season to 66 this season. Barry’s production was simply lost after the fifth-year’s departure.
That is not to say new pieces didn’t emerge in her place. Senior Caroline DeBellis and sophomore Carly Bernstein both saw their stats skyrocket as each put up 20-goal seasons. However, their improvement alone wasn’t enough to keep Duke in the national spotlight.
The Blue Devils are losing some big names this offseason. Jenner has been the face of the program for four years — since her sister graduated — and without a finalized list of returning seniors, next season is ripe with uncertainty. The program has been relying on its veterans since the pandemic, preaching experience as the be-all-end-all, the final key to Duke’s success. But those veterans are gone now, and it must turn to its new generation of leaders.
The star-studded class of Kennedy Everson, Kerry Nease, Reilly Traynor and Bernstein will be upperclassmen. The freshmen will be looking to step up.
With only three rising seniors, DeSimone, Katie Keller and Maddie McCorkle, the Blue Devils have to change their narrative.
Before the 2022 season, head coach Kerstin Kimel said of her incoming freshman class: “They’re working their tails off right now to put themselves in position to contribute this year.” Traynor and Everson were the only two to play meaningful minutes that season.
Those young guns are no longer the young ones. They are the class that needs to step up and fill the legacy-sized shoes that their former leaders are leaving behind. They need to be those veterans, those experienced players for the new freshman class to learn from. Duke is in for a changing of the guard, and the success of that transition lies firmly on those middle two years. Their talent is undeniable, but for the Blue Devils to return to national prominence, they need to become the players that the women before them were.
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Rachael Kaplan is a Trinity junior and sports managing editor of The Chronicle’s 119th volume.
Georgetown University Athletics Women’s Lacrosse History vs Duke University
Women’s Lacrosse History vs Duke University from Mar 19, 2005 -
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Downe House School (Down House School) – an independent private school for girls aged 11 to 18 years.
The school offers both daytime and boarding. In total, about 500 students study here, most of whom live on the school grounds. Downe House School is located in the village of Cold Ash (Cold Ash), Berkshire (Berkshire), an hour’s drive from London.
Downe House School was founded in 1907 on a homestead once owned by Charles Darwin. The school moved to its current location in 1921. The traditions and principles of education laid down by the founders of Downe House School are alive to this day. The upbringing of each student as a person is placed above academic education. Downe House School is rightfully considered one of the best boarding schools for girls.
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Children of all denominations and religions are admitted to the school. The official religion at Downe House School is Anglicanism.
See also : Church Schools in the UK. Tribute to tradition or reality?
School address. Downe House School
website
The British school system is divided into parts, pre-preparatory (Pre-prep School), preparatory (Prep School), secondary (Secondary School) and Sixth Form. Different schools offer one, several or all levels. School departments may be located in the same or different premises, respectively, the school may have one or more addresses.
Downe House School is located in the village of Cold Ash (Cold Ash), Berkshire (Berkshire), an hour’s drive from London.
Full School Address:
Downe House School
Cold Ash
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At Downe House School , not only academic education, but also the development of each student as a person is given a huge impact.
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Female students Downe House School participate in charitable projects that help schools in Romania, India, Africa and Malaysia, as well as the elderly, the disabled and local public educational institutions. Girls constantly travel around the world, attend exhibitions and performances. They also participate in the production of musicals, concerts, competitions. Most female students are active participants in the Duke of Edinburgh’s Award, Young Entrepreneurs or Model United Nations. Colorful Scottish balls are organized several times a year.
Downe House School Facilities
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7%A Level
Result | A* | A | B | C | D | E | U |
Interest on results | 13. | 36.2% | 25.0% | 8.6% | 11.2% | 4.3% | 0.9% |
A* & A | 50% | ||||||
A* – C | 75% | ||||||
8%Pre-U – D1 scores – 2.6%; D2 – 21.9%; D3 – 31.8%; M1 – 14.6%; M2 – 12%.
Tuition fees Downe House School
* – Prices vary for different programs. For clarification, contact the manager.
Programs and items
GCSE /IGCSE
- English Language (English Language)
- English Literature
- Business (Business Studies)
- Biology
- Further Mathematics
- Geography
- Greek
- Spanish
- History
- Art History
- Art
- Italian
- Chinese
- Critical Thinking
- Latin
- Mathematics
- Music (Music)
- German
- Religious Studies
- Government and Politics
- Russian Language (Russian)
- Sports Science
- Drama
- Textiles*
- Technology and Design (Design & Technology)
- Food Technology
- Physics (Physics)
- Physical Education
- Photography
- French
- Chemistry
- Choreography (Dance)
- Economics (Economics)
- Japanese
Read also : More about GCSE and What is IGCSE?
A-Level/Pre-U
- English Language
- English Literature
- Business (Business Studies)
- Biology
- Further Mathematics
- Geography
- Greek
- Spanish
- History
- Art History
- Art
- Italian
- Chinese
- Critical Thinking
- Latin
- Mathematics
- Music (Music)
- German
- Religious Studies
- Government and Politics
- Russian Language (Russian)
- Sports Science
- Theatrical skills (Drama0
- Textiles*
- Technology and Design (Design & Technology)
- Food Technology
- Physics (Physics)
- Physical Education
- Photography
- French
- Chemistry
- Choreography (Dance)
- Economics (Economics)
- Japanese
Read also : More about A-level and What is Pre-U? How is it different from A-level?
! Some subjects are introduced into the program only if a certain number of students are recruited.
