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TAMPA, Fla.- The University of Tampa men's and women's lacrosse team's attack units visited the Children's Wing of Tampa General Hospital on Wednesday as part of their Attack Children's Cancer campaign. The players who visited were; from the men's team attackers Mike Morris, Jake Rooney, Chris Vetter, and Conor Whipple, and from the women's team attackers Jackie Martin, Amanda Voges, Natalie Carraway, and Christina Burroughs. Read More...
GRAND LAKE, Colo. - The Intercollegiate Women's Lacrosse Coaches Association (IWLCA) has recognized the University of Tampa as one of its Honor Squads for the 2014 season.
UT is one of 45 schools earning IWLCA Division II Academic Honor Squad honors for the 2014 season. Every school with a team GPA of 3.0 or higher earned Academic Squad honors. Read More...
WINTER PARK, Fla. - On Tuesday, the Sunshine State Conference announced its 2014 Inaugural All-SSC Men's Lacrosse Team. Tampa's Conor Whipple was selected Player of the Year and Jake Rooney was named Co-Newcomer of the Year. Florida Southern's Grant VanOverbeke was also named Co-Newcomer of the Year. The Spartans' Rory Whipple was named Coach of the Year. Read More...
WINTER PARK, Fla. - The Sunshine State Conference will grow to 18 NCAA Division II sponsored sports with the addition of women's lacrosse beginning the spring of 2015. The conference is currently sponsoring its first season of men's lacrosse. League bylaws require that half of the conference's member institutions offer a particular sport before it may become a conference-sponsored sport. Read More...
The No. 13 ranked men’s lacrosse team outscored No. 6 New York Tech 13-4 over the final three periods en route to a 15-6 win Friday night at the Naimoli Family Athletic and Intramural Complex. With the win the Spartans improves to 2-0, while the Bears fall to 0-1 on the season. Read More...
Panos will replace Mike Ryder, who left Tampa to take a coaching position with the new and emerging lacrosse program at the IMG Academy. "The University of Tampa and our lacrosse program are very grateful for the contributions coach Ryder made in helping us get this program off the ground," praised Whipple about his former assistant who spent two seasons as the defensive coordinator at Tampa. "Mike remains very closely tied to our program, our players and our staff, and we are very excited for the great opportunity that is presented for him at IMG." Read More...
WINTER PARK, Fla. - Six teams will take the field this spring for the inaugural season of men's lacrosse in the Sunshine State Conference. The Tampa Spartans have been chosen as the preseason favorite to win the first-ever SSC Men's Lacrosse regular-season title. In a poll conducted among the SSC head men's lacrosse coaches, the Spartans tallied 25 points and received five of the six first-place votes. Saint Leo was selected second with 20 points and received the remaining first-place vote. Read More...
TAMPA, Fla. - The University of Tampa women's lacrosse program has announced its schedule for the inaugural season, as announced by head coach Kelly Gallagher. The schedule includes four teams that were nationally ranked to end the 2013 season, including the nation's No. 2 and 3 ranked squads. Additionally, a pair of regionally-ranked opponents will also play the Spartans. Read More...
A Senior lacrosse player at the University of Tampa made a pretty sick video from an inter-squad scrimmage a month ago. They had a GoPro on a few different players so there are cool points of view. Read More...
TAMPA, Fla. - The University of Tampa has announced the addition of Johns Hopkins attacker Mike Morris and Hofstra attacker Jake Rooney to it men's lacrosse program. Johns Hopkins attackman Mike Morris and Hofstra attackman Jake Rooney have decided to transfer and continue their playing careers at the University of Tampa, with both enrolled at UT and eligible for competition. Both Morris and Rooney will be beginning their sophomore years in the fall 2013 semester at UT. Read More...
TAMPA, Fla. - University of Tampa head women's lacrosse coach Kelly Gallagher has announced the hiring of Kerrin Fraser as the program's first assistant coach. Read More...
Greg Griffo Becomes Tampa’s First Lacrosse All-American, Full Division II All-American List Included
TAMPA, Fla. - University of Tampa men's lacrosse standout Greg Griffo has been named an honorable mention All-American by the United States Intercollegiate Coaching Association (USILA). He becomes the first player in program history to earn the honor. Griffo, a senior from Babylon, N.Y., recently concluded his Spartan career as the team's leading scorer. In 16 games, he netted 28 goals and 10 assists, including a pair of game-winning goals. He registered at least one points in 14 games this season. Read More...
