Liberty Lacrosse Unveils Challenging 2023 Schedule
11/17/2022 3:24:40 PM | Women's Lacrosse
The Liberty lacrosse team has unveiled a challenging schedule for the spring 2023 season, featuring six ranked opponents from a year ago.
Liberty’s season will get started at No. 1 and defending national champion North Carolina, Feb. 15 in Chapel Hill, N.C. The Lady Flames will host No. 8 Florida (April 12) and No. 12 James Madison (March 8) at the Liberty Lacrosse Field. Liberty will travel to No. 13 Duke (Feb. 28), No. 15 Jacksonville (April 1) and No. 17 Notre Dame (March 19).
Of those six ranked teams, all of them finished at No. 20 or better in the final 2022 NCAA Women’s Lacrosse RPI listing: North Carolina (No. 1 RPI), Florida (No. 5 RPI), James Madison (No. 12 RPI), Duke (No. 13 RPI), Jacksonville (No. 15 RPI) and Notre Dame (No. 20 RPI). The Lady Flames also have a road match at Richmond (No. 31 RPI) for their second game of the year (Feb. 18).
The Lady Flames’ seven-game ASUN schedule will start with a road game at five-time defending ASUN champion Jacksonville, April 1. Liberty’s first home ASUN game will be against Coastal Carolina on April 6.
The 2023 ASUN Women’s Lacrosse Championship will be held May 3-5 at Jacksonville’s D.B. Milne Field. The winner of the ASUN Tournament will receive a berth into the 2023 NCAA Division I Women’s Lacrosse Championship.
Liberty posted an 11-8 record and 4-1 ASUN mark in 2022 while playing a schedule which featured five ranked opponents. The Lady Flames reached the ASUN Championship title game for the third straight year before falling to Jacksonville in the final.
