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The
National Collegiate Athletic Association has announced that The College of
New Jersey will serve as the host site for the 2005 NCAA Division III
Women’s Lacrosse Championships. The event will take place on TCNJ’s campus
May 21-22, 2005 with the semifinals and the finals being contested in
Lions’ Stadium.
TCNJ’s Director of Athletics, Kevin McHugh said, “TCNJ is most pleased and
honored to be selected as the host for the 2005 NCAA Women's Lacrosse
Championship Finals. The college has a long tradition of successfully
hosting NCAA events and we will work as hard as possible to make this
championship a memorable one for all of the participants.”
The 2005 Championship will mark the fourth time the event will take place
on the Ewing campus as Lions’ Stadium has served as the venue for the
event previously in 1991, 1995, and 2000. The 2005 event will be a
different format than the previous times that Lions’ Stadium has been the
home field as this time only Division III programs will be competing in
the tournament. In the three previous events at TCNJ, both the National
Collegiate (Division I) and the NCAA Division III Championships were held
together at one venue.
In 1982, then Trenton State College was the host institution for the first
ever NCAA Women’s Lacrosse Championship which saw the University of
Massachusetts beat the Lions, 9-6. That contest was held on Dean Field as
Lions’ Stadium was not built until 1984.
TCNJ has won the NCAA Division III Championship in women’s lacrosse 11
times, including each of the previous times that the event was held at
Lions’ Stadium (1991, 1995 and 2000).
The NCAA also awarded bid to St. John Fisher College (Rochester, NY) for
the 2004 tournament and to Stevens Institute of Technology (Hoboken, NJ)
for the 2006 tournament.
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