QUICK FACTS ABOUT OUR PROGRAM
8 trips to the NCAA Tournament: 2021, 2018, 2017, 2011, 2010, 2009, 2008, 2007
8 total NEWMAC Championships: 2021, 2018, 2017, 2011, 2010, 2009, 2008, 2007
9 time Regular Season NEWMAC Champions: 2021, 2018, 2016, 2012, 2010, 2009, 2008, 2007, 1996,
26 consecutive appearances in the NEWMAC Tournament
6 IWLCA All American Athletes
23 IWLCA Berkshire All Region Athletes
111 NEWMAC All Conference Team Athletes
16 NEWMAC Academic All Conference Athletes
9 NEWMAC Women's Lacrosse Athletes of the Year
7 NEWMAC Rookie of the Year Athletes
Head Coach, Michelle Smith, NEWMAC Coach of the Year 2019 and 2016
What Babson's Women's Lacrosse Program is all about!
We have 4 core values and they are to SHARE, to COMPETE, to ENJOY and to TRUST. Are you someone that likes to share the energy, and to share the enthusiasm and positivity? Do you love to compete on a daily basis? Do you enjoy being a member of a team as part of something that is bigger than yourself? And are you willing to trust yourself and to your trust your teammates?
NEWMAC CONFERENCE
Babson is a participant in the New England Women's and Men's Athletic Conference (NEWMAC) establised in 1998 and is an association of 11 selective academic institutions that are committed to providing high quality competitive athletic opportunities for student-athletes. Babson's Women's Lacrosse program competes with 9 of the teams in the conference.
Babson College Quick Facts
- Ranked #1 for Entrepreneurship for 24 straight years by U.S. News & World Report
- Ranked #1 Business School for Salary Potential by PayScale
- Ranked #1 for Entrepreneurship MBA program for 27 straight years by U.S. News & World Report
- Babson College was founded in 1919- we just celebrated our 100th birthday!
- More than 2,350 undergraduate and nearly 1,000 graduate students are attending Babson, representing more than 80 countries.
- All undergraduate Babson students will have started his/her own business by freshman year
- Our faculty has over 220 global awards in teaching and research excellence
- 99% employed or attended graduate school within six months of graduation
- Average starting salary for Babson graduates: $60,000
Academics at Babson
Grow in and out of the classroom as you learn how to turn ideas into action.
The academic experience at Babson is based in action, experimentation, and creativity. Taught and mentored by dedicated professors, you learn the fundamentals of business, but more importantly, you discover how thinking and acting entrepreneurially enables you to pursue your passions and create your path to success
Foundations of Management and Entrepreneurship (FME)
FME is an internationally recognized yearlong course, required for first-year students, where you and your team will create, develop, launch, and manage a real venture.
Thought leaders. Innovative teachers. Accessible mentors.
This is what makes our faculty at Babson unlike others. 87% of our full-time faculty hold a doctoral degree or its equivalent, and a majority have been accomplished business founders and executives. They provide our students with hands on experience through field trips, internships, volunteer opportunities, and consulting projects by develop teaching cases specific to particular regions, demographics, and enterprises.
Study Abroad
At Babson you will have the opportunity to spend your fall semester of your Junior year, a winter session or summer abroad. We highly encourage our players to take advantage of this opportunity and experience one of the 100+ approved education abroad programs in over 40 countries. Our players have traveled to Rome, Pursia, Prague, Barcelona, London, South Africa, Pairs and many more!
Babson Recreation and Athletics Complex (BRAC)
BRAC is our new state of the art 75,000 square-foot facility that has provide our students a recreation center with three courts for basketball, badminton, volleyball, tennis, and more, a two-level 10,000 square-foot fitness center with strength and cardio equipment, a 25-yard indoor pool, an indoor track, a dance studio, two squash courts, and a racquetball court.
Our new double screened, 40 plus person film room allows teams to bring their on the field learning into the classroom.
The Bravo Family Sports Medicine Suite is a brand new state of the art Athletic Training facility. This provides our student athletes with the access to receive preventative, recovery and rehab therapy throughout the year. This suite includes 12 treatment beds, cold and hot therapy tubs, a rehab area and more all supervised by our full time athletic training staff.
Webster Center
Our newly updated Webster Center provides our Varsity Athletes with an abundant amount of resources to help them on and off the field. Our Lunder Performance Center is a 4,000 square-foot weight room that our full time Strength and Conditioning coaches are able to work with our athletes year round. Our athletes work with our coaches multiple times during the week and are also provided workouts during the summer and semester breaks.
All of Babson's 22 Varsity teams have a personalized locker room year round to help promote team chemistry and provide a place for team bonding throughout the school year.
Recruiting Updates
Fall Prospect Day- TBD October 2021
Winter Clinic- TBD February 2022
2021 Tournaments and Showcases:
We are planning to attend the following events this Spring and Summer
- US National Tournament: Bel Air, MD May 29-30th
- D3 Showcase: North Branford, CT June 5th
- Apex 60: Bel Air, MD June 24-25th
- Live Lax Love: Bel Air, MD June 12-13th
- IWLCA Champions Cup: Boyds, MD June 18-20th
- Lax for the Cure: New Egypt, NJ June 25-26th
- IWLCA New England Cup: Amherst, MA June 26-27th
- Elite 180: Mt Hermon, MA June 28-30th
- True High Honors Camp: Chicago, IL July 8th
- Summer Sizzle: Springfield, MA July 16-17th
- Mid-Atlantic: Baltimore, MD July 17-18th
- The Rise: Devens, MA July 24-25th
- Elite 100: Beverly, MA July 25th
Next Steps
- During your junior year keep us updated with your SAT/ACT scores, transcript, and senior year courses.
- Stay connect with any new updates!
Follow us on Instagram @babsonwlax
Contact us:
- Head Coach: Michelle Smith msmith@babson.edu
- Assistant Coach: Maggie Chizmar mchizmar@babson.edu