No. 1 Men’s Lacrosse Advances to NCAA Quarterfinals After Shutting Down Albany in Second Round
“It doesn’t have to be perfect, but it’s got to be tough. It’s got to be disciplined. Whatever gets it done.”
“It doesn’t have to be perfect, but it’s got to be tough. It’s got to be disciplined. Whatever gets it done.”
“My plan is to go out there, be confident and have a positive attitude in everything I do,” Wang said. “I want to outwork everyone.”
Their journey together started years prior, at Cornell. On Schoellkopf Field, Booth held a camera, trying to make small adjustments and capture the right angles while Hunt ran drills. She was brainstorming through ideas on how to piece together a highlight reel for an athlete feature for the Big Red Sports Network.“‘One day you will be a member of my team,’” Booth recalled Hunt saying.
“By maintaining stability throughout the course of those two days, we put ourselves in the best spot, both individually and as a team, to perform and compete,” Jackson Debusschere said.
“It’s all about the next one,” said head coach Connor Buczek. “Doesn’t matter if you’re up five or down five, the next goal makes the situation a heck of a lot better."
The Student Assembly voted to send Resolution 50 to President Kotlikoff’s desk, which would give freshman and sophomore student-athletes the ability to enroll in up to 8 credit hours one hour before their peers.
“We had to keep playing our game,” Kirst said. “We were going in there with the mentality that it was all about us."
“It’s not possible to manufacture desperation, but you can certainly manufacture desire. We have to make sure that we match and exceed that intensity that [Yale is] bringing here on Friday.”
As far-fetched as this situation may sound, all five of the teams fighting for the fourth seed have Ivy League winning percentages under .500, putting the Red within striking distance of tournament contention. Cornell was picked to finish third in the Ivy League preseason poll, and this weekend it still has the chance to finish in the top four.
“They never gave up, no matter what the situation was,” Graap said. “There was a collective resiliency and determination, which is awesome, because when you have a team like that, you know you’re in every game."
“It’s about what we can control and the things we can focus on,” Tembley said. “Tangible items that can provide different outcomes to adjustments we can make.”
“Gymnastics has become a part of who I am,” Beers said. “I grew up in the gym … “It has taught me some valuable life lessons like committing yourself to something, discipline and time management.”
“We grew up with those guys [the seniors]. I got this job when I was 26 and those guys were freshmen. It's going to be tough to say 'bye to them.”
As shared in an announcement released Thursday, Farlow will be succeeded by assistant coach Tara Tembey for the remainder of the 2025-2026 season.