Northwestern University Athletics
Northwestern Earns Top Billing in Lacrosse Magazine Preseason Rankings
1/11/2010 12:00:00 AM | Women's Lacrosse
Jan. 11, 2010
EVANSTON, Ill. -- Lacrosse Magazine has released its 2010 preseason rankings with Northwestern occupying the top spot. The Wildcats, who finished 23-0 in 2009 en route to their fifth-straight national championship, return 20 letterwinners and eight starters in 2010, including All-American attackers Katrina Dowd and Danielle Spencer.
Head coach Kelly Amonte Hiller, who begins her ninth season with a 134-24 overall record, and her Wildcats will get a good luck at a handful of the remaining top-20 teams as 10 clubs are on Northwestern's 2010 schedule, including seven of the remaining top-nine.
Amonte Hiller and the Wildcats get the 2010 slate underway in just under four weeks when they travel to San Diego, Calif., to take on Massachusetts in a rematch of last year's NCAA first round on Saturday, Feb. 6. Northwestern's first home game will be against sixth-ranked Georgetown on Saturday, March 6.
Lacrosse Magazine Preseason Top-20
1. Northwestern
2. Maryland
3. North Carolina
4. Penn
5. Duke
6. Georgetown
7. Syracuse
8. Virginia
9. Notre Dame
10. Princeton
11. Vanderbilt
12. Dartmouth
13. Boston University
14. Stanford
15. Loyola
16. Ohio State
17. Towson
18. Cornell
19. James Madison
20. William and Mary
2010 Northwestern opponents in italics
