As Cabrini men’s lacrosse team plays through another season, the players are one of the most important assets for all of their success, but the managers are key support as well. Elaina Loveland and Grace Fox are the managers of the men’s lacrosse team. While this is Loveland’s third year managing the championship team, this is Fox’s first year.
“The managers have always been a huge help to the team year after year. They have always been there to aid the players with anything we need on and off the field… Elaina and Grace are the nicest girls and are always putting the guys before themselves to take care of the stuff that we need. The girls are friends with a lot of the guys on the team and have a very good relationship with most,” Jordan Krug, a senior marketing major with an international business minor and the captain of the men’s lacrosse team, said.
Loveland became a manager three years ago when she was just a freshman. She contacted the head coach of the men’s lacrosse team, Steve Colfer, about being a lacrosse manager and he was more than happy to interview her.
“My experience managing the men’s lacrosse team has been a positive and exciting one. I love this team more than anything and we are a powerful team with great, disciplined players,” Elaina Loveland, a junior early education and early special education major and women’s field hockey player, said.
Loveland’s and Fox’s main duties as managers include doing laundry for the players’ practice clothing every day before practice, picking out their uniforms, so they can be hung, pressed and ready for each player so they are able to play in the upcoming game, packing their bag for away games with appropriate uniform necessities, supplying water at practice to players, running clock and scoreboard at practices and supplying water on sidelines at game.
“I would say my experience so far with managing the lacrosse team is really great. The guys are so nice and they really welcomed me. I learned a lot as well. I learned to be organized and responsible. Yes, I have made some mistakes but I learned to just brush it off and not hold it in. I was the manager for my high school so I had an idea of what I was getting into with lacrosse,” Grace Fox, a freshman communication major and sports management minor, said.
Fox got this position by talking to the coach because of her interest in sports management. Fox also managed the football team in her high school and thought that she should do it in college as well.
“Grace has been super helpful in lacrosse so far and has a lot to learn with such a big team like us but she gets along great with everyone and has such a positive attitude about everything. She has been grasping everything I am teaching her great and can’t wait for the season with her,” Loveland said.
“My advice for my team is to enjoy the ride; lacrosse season comes and goes quickly, but our friendships and relationships with one another remain solid. I know that each player comes out to practice every day ready to play and put in their hard work. This team is a winning team because of the discipline, responsibility each player takes and the passion they each have every time they pick up their stick and come to the turf. I would not want to manage or dedicate a large amount of my time to any other group of people,” Loveland said.
