East Chapel Hill enters the postseason as the N&O's top-ranked girls' lacrosse team.
Below are the round-by-round match-ups of the 2013 girls' lacrosse playoffs with links to our coverage. East Chapel Hill won the NCHSAA title, defeating Charlotte Catholic.
Final N&O rankings: East Chapel Hill No. 1, Green Hope No. 2
N&O All-Metro team: TBA
Green Hope was the girls' lacrosse Conference 2 champs.
One blog with all of the all-conference performers, stat leaders, links to postseason stories and final season standings for the 2013 Conference 2 (aka Tri-9) girls' lacrosse season.
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Two more varsity lacrosse programs in the area are expected this spring.
The NCHSAA has released a draft of next year's lacrosse conferences, and on them are a few new programs. Sanderson, which fielded a club boys' lacrosse team last spring, will be a varsity. Heritage will field a varsity girls' lacrosse team for the first time.
Cardinal Gibbons announced Friday that it has hired Taylor Chumney as its new girls' lacrosse coach. Chumney has served as an assistant lacrosse coach at East Chapel Hill and been coaching club lacrosse with the Carolina Fever.
Cardinal Gibbons is 32-5 over the past two seasons with three of those losses coming to eventual state champions. Chumney replaces Prudence Scott, who had been the coach since the 2007 season.
Girls lacrosse standings at the end of the playoffs, plus the all-conference team and awards. "Conference 2" includes the seven Tri-Nine programs who play the sport.
Two notes with this - 1) this is an incomplete all-conference list as not every coach replied with their teams and 2) we are missing stats from Apex's final two games.
| 2011-12 ALL CONFERENCE TEAM | |
| Player of the Year -- Maggie Auslander, Green Hope | 65 goals, 34 assists |
| Coach of the Year -- Abby Mead, Green Hope | |
| First Team | |
| Campbell Stanley, Green Hope | 56 goals, 25 assists |
| Julie Hagan, Green Hope | |
| Katherine Smith, Green Hope | 73 goals, 24 assists |
| Katie Burnet, Apex | 19 goals, 5 assists |
| Marybeth Burriss, Apex | |
| Casey Nesbitt, Apex | 39 goals, 16 assists |
| Tara Gehring, Apex | |
| Holly Hite, Middle Creek | |
| Claire Wach, Panther Creek | 44 goals, 29 assists |
| Second Team | |
| Jessie DeLuca, Apex | 23 goals, 10 assists |
| Madeline Bromley, Apex | 36 goals, 15 assists |
| Kasey Boudreau, Middle Creek | |
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Kate Murphy, Green Hope
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31 goals, 32 assists |
| Mackenzie Koeller, Green Hope | 42 goals, 13 assists |
| Team | Overall Record | Conf 2 Record |
|---|---|---|
| 1. Green Hope |
20-0
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12-0
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| 2. Apex |
16-3
|
10-2
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| 3. Panther Creek |
11-6
|
8-4
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| 4. Athens Drive |
8-8
|
6-6
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| 5. Middle Creek |
3-10
|
3-9
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| 6. Cary |
2-11
|
2-10
|
| 7. Holly Springs |
1-14
|
1-11
|
Brackets and locations of N.C. Independent Schools Athletic Association playoffs in baseball, softball, girls soccer, 3A boys tennis, boys lacrosse, girls lacrosse and track & field.
The N.C. High School Athletic Association girls lacrosse playoffs begin Friday, May 4. Conference champions East Chapel Hill, Green Hope and Cardinal Gibbons received first-round byes. Defending state champ Apex is a 2-seed.
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The NCHSAA finalized the boys and girls lacrosse conferences for this year. There were no changes in the area from the NCHSAA's first draft, which can be found by clicking here.
The N.C. High School Athletic Association has released its first draft of this spring's boys and girls lacrosse conferences. Since less than a fourth of NCHSAA schools have either program, new conferences are made bringing together those that do. Finalized conferences will be released later.
Among the proposed changes:
Player of the Year: Rachel Chapla, Green Hope
Co-Coaches of the Year: Jenn Flaherty, Apex, and Whit Baker, Holly Springs
First team
