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"We do not remember days, we remember moments"
Our 2010/2011 season was one fraught with joys, sadness, anger and frustration, but, truly a year for the club to remember. The season kicked off after the most successful season that Stirling Lacrosse had ever seen within BUCS and the Scottish league. We had lost the vast majority of our starting line up and key players that held the team together throughout the successes of the previous season, we lost Team captain Robert Hetherington, Vice Captains Jim Huntington and Myles Bonnar, Goalie John-Paul Charles, Paul Tracey, Colin Bowen and Ross Waugh. This is the re-accuring problem that we face each and every year, as the bulk of our team is made up of Stirling University students, we lose players to graduation and job placements.
We did not allow this to get us down and we forced ourselves onto the front foot in the recruitment and training of new players, meaning the new second year players had to quickly step up and mature into their senior roles within the team. Along side new club Captain Malcolm Kent and Vice Captain Jamie Fleming, Derek "Dazzler" White, Michael Gardiner, David Corr, Gareth Thomson, New goallie Andrew McRitchie, Euan Bean and Lou Osman where forced to step up to the mark and hold the team together along side the return of Kenny Dunn.
As a team we decided that the 2010/2011 season would be used solely to train and improve new players with the intention of going guns blazing in the 2011/2012 season, with a fully trained and prepared squad. However, this was not to be the case. The fresh players who joined the team at the beginning of the season out did themselves far beyond anyones expectations. Not only were they all very keen to learn, but all showed a natural skill and intuition for the game.
We struggled slightly in the Scottish League, using these games primarily for the development of our new players, allowing them to work up to a good level of lacrosse with plenty of game time. However as a team we out performed ourselves in the BUCS league. We were able to make it all the way to the BUCS Trophy Quarter-Finals, which is the furthest any Stirling Lacrosse team has ever been. Although we were defeated by the Birmingham University team, everyone of our players involved in the trip gave 110% and played at a level much above anything we could have hoped for, so much so that our Goalie, Andrew McRitchie, was voted MVP by both teams. We left the BUCS Trophy Quarter-Finals with our heads held high and our eyes firmly fixed on the 2011/2012 season, knowing that we gave it our all and left everything on the field, as is the Stirling Lacrosse way. To top it all off, we showed those Birmingham boys a thing or two in the boat race after the match at a local pub, concreting the well known fact, that the Stirling boys play hard but party harder.
We did not allow this to get us down and we forced ourselves onto the front foot in the recruitment and training of new players, meaning the new second year players had to quickly step up and mature into their senior roles within the team. Along side new club Captain Malcolm Kent and Vice Captain Jamie Fleming, Derek "Dazzler" White, Michael Gardiner, David Corr, Gareth Thomson, New goallie Andrew McRitchie, Euan Bean and Lou Osman where forced to step up to the mark and hold the team together along side the return of Kenny Dunn.
As a team we decided that the 2010/2011 season would be used solely to train and improve new players with the intention of going guns blazing in the 2011/2012 season, with a fully trained and prepared squad. However, this was not to be the case. The fresh players who joined the team at the beginning of the season out did themselves far beyond anyones expectations. Not only were they all very keen to learn, but all showed a natural skill and intuition for the game.
We struggled slightly in the Scottish League, using these games primarily for the development of our new players, allowing them to work up to a good level of lacrosse with plenty of game time. However as a team we out performed ourselves in the BUCS league. We were able to make it all the way to the BUCS Trophy Quarter-Finals, which is the furthest any Stirling Lacrosse team has ever been. Although we were defeated by the Birmingham University team, everyone of our players involved in the trip gave 110% and played at a level much above anything we could have hoped for, so much so that our Goalie, Andrew McRitchie, was voted MVP by both teams. We left the BUCS Trophy Quarter-Finals with our heads held high and our eyes firmly fixed on the 2011/2012 season, knowing that we gave it our all and left everything on the field, as is the Stirling Lacrosse way. To top it all off, we showed those Birmingham boys a thing or two in the boat race after the match at a local pub, concreting the well known fact, that the Stirling boys play hard but party harder.