Oberlin lax geography

13 States will be represented on the 2010 Yeomen roster. NY, MD, VA, NJ, MA, CT, PA, OH, IL, MN, OR, CA, WA.

Coach Walz speaks

Coach Walz's video for the senior luncheon.

Senior Awards

Senior captain Jesse Kane is one of the four recipients of the Andrews award at this years athletic dept. senior luncheon.

Andrews Family Award
This award was established in 2005 in honor of the Andrews family, whose presence at Oberlin traces back six generations to Delia Fenn Andrews, an 1841 graduate of the College. More recently, Chris '90 (soccer, track and field) and George '54 (football) served the College as members of the department of mathematics and the General Faculty Athletics Committee. George also served as acting director of athletics and physical education in 2002-2003. The recipient of this award will be the male athlete who best exemplifies dedication to academic and athletic excellence and has demonstrated leadership skills, strength of character, and loyalty to Oberlin College.
Recipients – Greg Mangan (Football) Conor Doss (Track/Cross Country) Jesse Kane (Lacrosse) Ryan King (Track/Cross Country)

Matt & Jesse enjoying Savannah, GA

While in Savannah with the team on spring break Matt and Jesse decided to take a few photos for use in the senior day program.

Matt donates hair to locks of love

15

I've been slacking, I told many people that I was going to continue blogging here for the team and I haven't written anything new for a couple of weeks now. Coach Cohen has badgered me everyday for the last week or so about writing a new post, so here I am in the library about to start doing some work, and lo and behold I find the time to write a blog post instead.

From the moment fall ball began last semester our team took pride in and drew strength from our small numbers, but tight knit group mentality. During our last few games our team has had a new cheer, "15!". I love the mentality and the spirit behind it, but personally it's been tough to yell, seeing as I haven't even been able to practice since the Medaille game. I've been on the sidelined for the first time in my Oberlin career, during a stretch of conference games, no less. We've got Wooster at home on Wednesday, I'm hoping to get in that one (I had hoped to be in the last two as well). It starts a string of three home games before we end the season with two on the road, I'm going to be keep being real unhappy if I spend much more time just contributing to the the 15 by fetching balls so they don't have to ball hunt at the end of practice.

It's an odd parallel to high school, have a good junior year, be a captain senior year, get injured in a bizarre way, and miss time for the first time for that team. Despite going to through a similar situation four years ago I'm having the same problems I did with it then. I've never been a vocal, speech-giving leader (Jesse's the man for that and many other things), I've always tried to lead through my play, simply be a consistent, reliable, stabilizing force on D. How do I lead without being able to play? I struggled with that in high school and I have been since I've been sat. I wish I had the answers, but I can't be someone I'm not, so I've just been doing everything I've been told to do for my rehab. That way I can get back to helping this team in the best way I know how.

-Matt Hollenbeck '09

Alums in the Ohio lacrosse Hall of Fame

1994 inductee
Joe Horn
1995 inductee
Cornelius "Mickey" Cochrane
You can learn more about the Ohio lacrosse Hall of Fame at www.ohlax.com