Spring 2010 Girls Lacrosse
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The 2010 Lady Chiefs Lacrosse season finished with a district record of 5-1 record after splitting a pair with St. Thomas and two victories over Pine Crest.   Cardinal Gibbons Junior Sarah Motta was selected the Sun-Sentinel Lacrosse Player of the Year.   US Lacrosse Academic All-Americans for 2010 are Sarah Motta, Lauren Holsinger, Jenny Grant, Kiera Moran and Katherine Clementi.  The team was awarded the fourth highest team GPA in FHSAA lacrosse with an overall GPA of 3.569, just slightly behind winner Vero Beach at 3.599.  

Wednesday, March 31, 2010 Lady Chiefs Lacrosse will travel to Boynton to meet up with the Park Vista Cobras for the first matchup between the two schools.   Gibbons brings into the game a respectable 8-6 record with losses against some very tough out of area first time opponents including Timber Creek (Orlando), Lake Highland Prep (Orlando), Bishop Moore (Orlando), St. Edwards (Vero Beach) and Wellington.  

Friday, March 5, 2010 Lady Chiefs Lacrosse made their first overnight road trip in the history of their young program.  Timber Creek High School has been about as solid a lacrosse program as you will find in Florida.  The Lady Chiefs felt confident going into the week with prediction of nice cool weather in Central Florida.   When the Chiefs took the field under the lights the temperature was a frosty 38 degrees.  Cardinal Gibbons scored on the opening draw and the first ten minutes looked solid for the Chiefs.  Timber Creek kicked it into gear and took advantage of too many dropped balls by Gibbons and by half-time they were up by eight.   Cold weather aside, the opponent and entire experience was first rate.  The game ended in a 21-10 loss. 

Friday, February 19, 2010 Under the lights at Boca Raton High Stadium, Cardinal Gibbons faced a very tough Bobcats team.   Boca Raton returned most of their 2009 (8-6) team from last season.  Gibbons raced out to a 4-1 lead and never looked back capping the evening at 13-7. The evening was experimental in nature trying lots of new players into different systems of play.  Freshman standout Lauren Burns had an outstanding game on both sides of the field.   Varsity Soccer players, Jenny Grant, Sarah Motta, Maylis Broderick Megan Renne and Jen Snyder, had a solid evening of play with only two weeks of practice.  A hallmark of Gibbons coaching is having balance offensive weaponry.  Goals were scored by Sarah Motta (5), Maylis Broderick (2), Megan Renne (2), Erin Nunziante, (1), Kiera Moran (1) Katherine Clementi (1) and Lauren Burns (1).  Shannon Weicz has another solid performance in goal with her third varsity start.   The Lady Chiefs are 3-0.  

Wednesday, February 16, 2010 Cardinal Newman came to the furnace looking for an upset but the Lady Chiefs were having know of it.  Along the way to a 16-5 win, the entire roster saw the field with goals coming from nine (9) different Gibbons players including Erin Nunziante (4), Maylis Broderick (2), Sarah Motta (2) and Megan Renne (2), Kiera Moran (1), Lauren Holsinger (1). Junior Shannon Weicz and Sophomore Jacqueline Seiler split goal duty. 

Wednesday, February 10, 2010 Gibbons began the season against North Broward Prep School.  NBPS is a young team.   Erin Nunziante led the attack with seven goals and senior Samantha Gomez had three goals on 3 for 3 shooting and sophomore Hartland McDonald scored her career first goal.   Jacqueline Seiler debuted in goal for the first and looked very strong.