CORNELL WINS 2025 MENS LACROSSE NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP!

[Jeff Hopkins '82]

This is a different sort of angry Bear on the shirts...

Hmmm.  I like the angry bear.  The dead turtle and lion not so much.

[CU77]

So was the jersey number of 51 a random choice, or a botched attempt at 15?

[jtwcornell91]

This is a different sort of angry Bear on the shirts...

Hmmm.  I like the angry bear.  The dead turtle and lion not so much.

Looks pretty silly for a licensed product.

[Scersk '97]

This is a different sort of angry Bear on the shirts...

Hmmm.  I like the angry bear.  The dead turtle and lion not so much.

Looks pretty silly for a licensed product.

Silly bears get pretty wild when they vanquish their foes.

[jtwcornell91]

This is a different sort of angry Bear on the shirts...

Hmmm.  I like the angry bear.  The dead turtle and lion not so much.

Looks pretty silly for a licensed product.

Silly bears get pretty wild when they vanquish their foes.

Somebody needs to make a YouTube playlist of all those intros.

[billhoward]

Great video! Shows Cornell is upping its publicity/outreach game via videos. Video has long ago blown by still photos as THE visual medium. My Cornell admittance was helped majorly by winning the NYS HS photographer of the year award. A half-century ago. But, okay, you change with the times and while our younger son learned photography in HS and from me, and now is more wisely in the video / movie production world. He does still photos for a hobby.

Cornell really needs to improve game video starting with Lynah: higher-up cameras (and it can be done), access to the downward facing goal cameras the refs use, maybe () a pair of in-goal cams. At least our hockey & lax announcers are good.

Me, I think a good still photo is what you put on the wall. This shot from the West Stands-on-a-trailer thing Cornell brought in. It's low to field for better photos and it provides proximity for parents/fans who want to be heard by the ref. Me, I always believed when you're shooting from the sideline and your son or daughter is on the field (and that includes the joy of their Westfield team (ie Ryan Waldman, Michael Marshall's team) getting its butt kicked by Delbarton lax and hockey), he belongs to the coaches and the refs, not the parents.

[billhoward]

So was the jersey number of 51 a random choice, or a botched attempt at 15?

Albert Einstein was dyslexic, too, and still got a job at Princeton.

[CU77]

Just in case this hasn't been posted here yet, here are full official replays of the semifinal and final on youtube:

Semifinal against Penn State

Final against Maryland

And, from Inside Lacrosse, a slide show of the postgame title celebration:

Championship celebration

[Al DeFlorio]

Am I the only one unaware of the weekly lacrosse podcasts done by Jonathan Donville and Dan Arestia?  Just stumbled on to these on youtube and think they are very informative with little extraneous chit-chat.  Here's a link to their season wrap-up done after championship weekend:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F2DsVrxwBA4

[Chris H82]

Came across another T-shirt design. Dodges the NC$$ by not referring to them. Yet another Bear, and the Terrapin (it's just a turtle here) looks too happy.
https://competitive-edge.co/products/2025-champs-tee?variant=46328073355521&country=US¤cy=USD&com_cvv=8fb3d522dc163aeadb66e08cd7450cbbdddc64c6cf2e8891f6d48747c6d56d2c

[ugarte]

Came across another T-shirt design. Dodges the NC$$ by not referring to them. Yet another Bear, and the Terrapin (it's just a turtle here) looks too happy.
https://competitive-edge.co/products/2025-champs-tee?variant=46328073355521&country=US¤cy=USD&com_cvv=8fb3d522dc163aeadb66e08cd7450cbbdddc64c6cf2e8891f6d48747c6d56d2c

ai slop

[PaulHoop]

Coach Buczek just promoted Ciferri to replace Stevens and Griffin from Operations to Assistant Coach. Promoting from within - the Big Red way per Inside Lacrosse

[mike1960]

Coach Buczek just promoted Ciferri to replace Stevens and Griffin from Operations to Assistant Coach. Promoting from within - the Big Red way per Inside Lacrosse

Consistency is not a bad thing. Let's hope he develops a formidable defense.

[BearLover]

I don't have the numbers, so please correct me if I'm wrong, but I feel like Cornell never had very good statistical defenses under Stevens. Even last year, our defense was pedestrian while the rest of our team was great.

[chimpfood]

I don't have the numbers, so please correct me if I'm wrong, but I feel like Cornell never had very good statistical defenses under Stevens. Even last year, our defense was pedestrian while the rest of our team was great.

I think part of this could be the effect of having an amazing offense. An offense that scores so much and so quickly gives the opponent a lot of chances that they might not have against a slower, less dynamic offense.