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Vanderbilt Lacrosse Signs Seven Recruits 11-17-04 11/17/2004 The Vanderbilt women’s lacrosse team signed seven student-athletes to national letters of intent during the early signing period, Head Coach Cathy Swezey announced Wednesday. Cameron Clark (Chatham, N.J.), Jessica Demorest (San Juan Capistrano, Calif.), Merissa Eide (Ellicott City, Md.), Carolyn Gioia (Mooresville, N.J.), Cara Giordano (Montebello, N.Y.), Shea Macdonald (Westfield, N.J.) and Rachel Woolford (Bel Air, Md.) will enroll at Vanderbilt next fall and compete for the lacrosse team beginning in the 2006 season. “We are very excited about the class of 2009. The class has great diversity and we are encouraged by the new range of experience and talent that they will bring to the program,” Coach Swezey said. “We are certain that they have the potential to help us reach another Final Four and will move us closer to a National Championship. We look forward to their arrival next fall.” The class contains three attackers (Clark, Gioia and Macdonald), two midfielders (Demorest and Giordano), a defender (Eide) and a goalkeeper (Woolford). Several of the commitments have ties to current Commodores. Eide attends Mt. Hebron, the same high school that produced redshirt-freshman Ali Lemons, while Gioia was a high school teammate of VU freshman Meredith St. Lawrence at Suffern High. Giordano joins prep teammate Margie Curran in Nashville. Both attended the same high school as Coach Swezey (Moorestown High). The members of this impressive recruiting class are rich with accomplishments, both athletically and academically. At Chatham High, Clark earned honorable mention All-Division as a freshman and sophomore and was a first-team All-Conference selection as a junior. Eide, a starting defender on a Mt. Hebron squad that was ranked No. 1 in the nation by U.S. Lacrosse, was a first-team All-County selection (Washington Post) and a member of the National Honor Society. Giordano earned first-team All-South Jersey honors while playing for the two-time state champion Moorestown squad. Another New Jersey native, Macdonald earned first-team All-State honors while captaining her Kent Place team. Demorest becomes the first Californian to sign a Commodore NLI. A first-team All-League selection, she also was recognized as an Academic All_American by U.S. Lacrosse. The Commodores are coming off a 2004 season that saw them win the American Lacrosse Conference championship (for the second time in the league’s three-year history) and advance to the semifinals of the NCAA Tournament. |
