Minnesota Elite Girls: IWLCA Capital Cup

MN Elite Girls is wrapping up the high school recruiting tournament summer season with a team of mixed ages at the IWLCA Capital Cup. Our team is comprised of '14, '15, '16 players playing in the highest level of competition in the Open Division. Our competition is stiff, as this is the last big tournament of the summer:

Sky Walkers (Baltimore - and always a very strong opponent)
RC Elite (Rollins College Elite team from Florida - another strong team for us!)
Carolina Fever (coming out of UNC territory - enough said!)
Ultimate (Pennsylvania's lacrosse hotbed)

Day 1 Thursday: After cancelled flights, re-routing flights, and splitting up the team, the team finally arrives in Richmond. It doesn't take Coach Judy long to get a practice organized at Trinity Episcopal College in Richmond (Thank-you!!). Although the tournament begins tomorrow, our team starts competition on Saturday.

Day 2 Friday: Games begin tomorrow. Another practice, getting ready for our stiff competition, as MN Elite is in the strongest competition in the Open Division.

Earlier today the team toured Randolph-Macon College in Virginia, a national liberal arts college and the alma mater of our own Coach Lori Cochran! Also on the tour was beautiful University of Richmond, a liberal arts university next door to the tournament location.

And of course - Coach Judy personally knows Carol Estes, whom the athletic park is named after at Randolph-Macon College.


MN Elite '16 players Kendall Kozikowski, Ali Barian, and Angie Bodine

The beautiful University of Richmond campus!

We could never do the tournaments that we do without great leadership - in coaching and in chaperones. Capital Cup families and Minnesota Elite Girls give a big THANK YOU to: chaperone Mark Menzuber, Coach Linda Hokr, Coach Judy Baxter, chaperone Jessica Barian and chaperone Martha Dayton

Day 3: Saturday - 2 games today - let the games begin!