Girls Varsity Lacrosse: A New Season and Another Title to Win

by Isabelle Perticone

The Darien High School Girls Lacrosse Team played their first official scrimmage today, March 29^th, at 1 o’clock against Yorktown on the opposition’s home field. According to senior captain Dillon Schoen, “We don't know a lot about the team” but she hopes that it will be a “good close game because they are from New York.” The team’s goal is to “compete with them to show Connecticut lacrosse is up there with the good New York teams”.

The girls spend a lot of their time doing team-building activities on the weekends when they are not playing games. At the first pasta dinner it’s a ritual to play icebreaker games to make the team closer to help improve communication between everyone. The varsity team has players from every single grade so it is important that all the girls get to know one another.

The first real game will be against Norwalk and the girls plan on leaving the field with the first win of the season. “As long as we are playing our game, we will have a pretty good shot at winning. It will be a good time to clear the bench and work on our new plays for the season,” Schoen said.

This is the final season for Schoen before she goes to college to play for the Stanford lacrosse team. “There is going to be a transition for sure. I’m excited to play at the next level with people who are passionate and good at the sport,” she said. But before she leaves for the college level, she has some goals for this season: “Hopefully we will all finish off our high school careers on a positive note with FCIAC and state titles.”

Schoen rocking the new lacrosse attire.