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Huskies junior M.E. Lapham was tabbed BIG EAST Offensive Player of the Week and Orange senior Liz Hogan earned BIG EAST Defensive Player of the Week accolades.

Georgetown sophomore Dina Jackson was tabbed BIG EAST Offensive Player of the Week and Louisville freshman Monica Negron earned BIG EAST Defensive Player of the Week accolades.

Hoyas senior Jordy Kirr was tabbed BIG EAST Offensive Player of the Week and Orange senior Liz Hogan earned BIG EAST Defensive Player of the Week accolades.

Senior Grace Gavin has been tabbed BIG EAST Offensive Player of the Week, while senior Kellye Gallagher is the BIG EAST Defensive Player of the Week.

Loyola senior Grace Gavin has been tabbed BIG EAST Offensive Player of the Week, while junior Kerry Stoothoff is the BIG EAST Defensive Player of the Week.

A quick look around the league at the spring sports.

Loyola senior Meg Decker is the BIG EAST Offensive Player of the Week, while Louisville senior Emily Dashiell is the BIG EAST Defensive Player of the Week.

Wins over Penn State and Cornell helped a pair of Loyola players sweep the BIG EAST women’s lacrosse weekly honors.

Solid performances by Rutgers senior Marlena Welsh and Connecticut sophomore Mackenzie Rainone have helped them earn BIG EAST women’s lacrosse weekly honors.

Villanova junior Justine Donodeo earned BIG EAST Offensive Player of the Week honors, while Loyola junior Kerry Stoothoff was named BIG EAST Defensive Player of the Week.

The BIG EAST Conference has announced dates and sites for its Olympic sport championships in the 2011-12 and 2012-13 academic years. The sites were awarded by the BIG EAST Championship and Competition Committee.

46 games to be televised this spring, including 25 on national carriers

Syracuse is right behind as four teams earn first-places votes.

STORRS, Conn. - Katie Woods, a South Windsor, Conn., native and a 2001 graduate of Drew University, has been named ...

Varsity lacrosse teams will begin competition in 2013

 Syracuse women's lacrosse senior standout Christina Dove highlights the 2010 ESPN The Magazine Academic All-America Women's At-Large Teams, as selected by the College Sports Information Directors of America. Dove was a first-team selection.

 For the third consecutive year, a record number of BIG EAST women's lacrosse players (11) have been selected to the Intercollegiate Women's Lacrosse Coaches Association (IWLCA) all-America team. The selections include three first-team performers, along with five second-team selections and three third-team picks.

For the third consecutive year, the BIG EAST Conference tied a league record as three women's lacrosse teams were selected to compete in the 16-team, Division I NCAA Championship. Georgetown (13-5), Notre Dame (11-6) and Syracuse (13-6) all earned a berth marking the fourth time overall the BIG EAST has had three teams selected.

Georgetown (13-5) beat Syracuse (13-6) by the score of 13-11 in the title game of the BIG EAST women's lacrosse championship to capture its first tournament title before a sun-splashed crowd of 636 at Ronald N. Yurcak Field on the campus of Rutgers University. Hoyas senior Molly Ford scored four goals, including the eventual game-winner and was named the tournament's Most Outstanding Player.

 The 2010 BIG EAST women's lacrosse championship began a weekend of postseason action with a banquet announcing the league's all-conference teams and major award winners on at the Hyatt Regency in New Brunswick, N.J.