"We are extremely pleased to be adding women's lacrosse as a conference sport," Aresco said. The American will receive an automatic bid into the NCAA Championship.įlorida has posted a 21-3 record all-time against teams it will compete against in the American Athletic Conference. The conference will conduct its first women's lacrosse championship in 2019 at a site and dates still to be determined. The American will now sponsor 10 men's and 12 women's sports. Women's lacrosse is the first sport addition to the conference since its reinvention in 2013. The American becomes the 16th Division I conference to sponsor women's lacrosse.Ĭincinnati, UConn, Temple, Florida and Vanderbilt are current members of the BIG EAST Conference in women's lacrosse, while ECU begins its first season of intercollegiate competition in 2018 after the addition of women's lacrosse to its sports roster in March 2016. We're very excited to build on the tradition of success we've created in the past eight years." "We faced a high level of competition in the BIG EAST, and are thrilled to carry that over into The American. "The American Athletic Conference will be a great new challenge for this program," said Florida head coach Amanda O'Leary.
Florida is currently riding a streak of seven consecutive conference championships dating back to 2011. The American will be the third conference that the Gators have competed in, after spending 2010-2014 in the American Lacrosse Conference and 2015-present in the BIG EAST. The six-team league will be comprised of current conference members University of Cincinnati, University of Connecticut, East Carolina University and Temple University, as well as the University of Florida and Vanderbilt University as affiliate members. – American Athletic Conference Commissioner Mike Aresco has announced the addition of women's lacrosse as the Conference's 22nd sport beginning in 2019.
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