BUIES CREEK, N.C. - Campbell heads to High Point for its first road game of the 2024 season on Saturday, Feb. 17 at 1 PM. The game will be broadcast on ESPN+.
LAST TIME OUT
- Campbell fell 14-11 in its season opener against #19 Richmond last Saturday. Sam Bischoff and Joslin Hanbury each recorded hat tricks for the Camels
- Rebekah Taylor led all players with four ground balls with two caused turnovers. Chandler Stewart added two ground balls and a team-best three caused turnovers while Hailey Kohlmann added two ground balls, two caused turnovers and a draw control
100 CAUSED TURNOVERS FOR TAYLOR
- Fifth-year defender Rebekah Taylor became the first player in program history to reach 100 career caused turnovers
- Taylor, who already leads the program in career caused turnovers, has recorded 30 or more in back-to-back seasons including 37 in 2023
SCOUTING HIGH POINT
- High Point enters 0-1 on the season after falling 22-14 against #24 Duke last Sunday.
- Junior midfielder Esprit Cha and junior attacker Jordan Miles each recorded four goals while sophomore attacker Shannon Smith added three goals and two assists against the Blue Devils
- Senior defender Aryss Lindsey led the defense with four ground balls and four caused turnovers
- The Panthers are led by Lyndsey Boswell (Pfeiffer '05) who holds a 152-83 record at High Point. Boswell is a former collegiate teammate of Campbell head coach Dawn Easley as both graduate Pfeiffer in 2005
SERIES HISTORY
- Campbell meets High Point for the 15th time and the first as non-conference opponents
- The Panthers lead the all-time series 1-13
- Campbell's lone win in the series came the last time it visited Vert Stadium in a 17-14 win on Mar. 30, 2022
- Last season the Panthers won 15-14, closing the game on a 3-0 run to edge the Camels
CAMEL NOTES
- Campbell heads into its 12th season and first as a CAA member. The Camels were previously members of the Big South (2012-23)
- The 2024 Camels return 22 letterwinners, including eight who started 10 or more games, welcoming 11 newcomers into the fold
- Last season the Camels set a program record with 12 wins and reached the Big South Championship final for the second time in program history
RETURNING TO THE SQUAD
- Campbell returns from last season...
- 76.6% of its points (311 of 406)
- 76.2% of its goals (205 of 269)
- 77.4% of its assists (106 of 137)
- 76.3% of its ground balls (305 of 400)
- 78.7% of its caused turnovers (218 of 277)
- 76.0% of its draw controls (222 of 292)
- The Camels also return its top four point scorers in Rasa Welsh (90 pts; 41g, 41a), Sam Bischoff (63 pts; 51g, 12a), Ally Heath (52 pts; 35g, 17a) and Joslin Hanbury (49pts; 37g, 12a)
- Defensively the Camels return Chandler Stewart (58 ground balls, 35 caused turnovers), Rebekah Taylor (35 ground balls, 37 caused turnovers) and Katie Ochall (33 ground balls, 23 caused turnovers)
PRESEASON All-CAA
- Sam Bischoff and Rebekah Taylor both earned preseason all-CAA honors. Bischoff was named to the preseason all-conference team while Taylor earned an honorable mention nod
- Bischoff is coming off a second-straight season being named Big South Midfielder of the Year and third-straight selection to the All-Big South first team. Bischoff collected 63 points last season with 51 goals and 12 assists. She added 10 free position goals, 15 ground balls, 17 caused turnovers and a team-high 82 draw controls. She tallied hat tricks in eight games and had six games with five-plus points
- Taylor repeated as Big South Defensive Player of the Year last season and joined Bischoff on the All-Big South First Team for a third-straight season. Taylor broke her own school record for caused turnovers last season, forcing 37. She earned Big South Defensive Player of the Week honors twice and helped Campbell tie a school record for fewest goals allowed in a single game in a 22-3 win over Wofford. Taylor recorded multiple ground balls in 10 games last season with nine multi-caused turnover games
NCAA STATISTICAL CHAMPIONS
- Campbell led the country in two statistical categories last season finishing first in caused turnovers per game (14.11) and ground balls per game (20.63)
FIFTH-YEAR RETURNERS
RECORD BREAKING SEASON IN 2023
- Campbell set a program record with 12 wins in 2023, finishing 7-2 in the Big South and reaching final of the Big South Championship for the second time in program history
- Sam Bischoff and Rebekah Taylor repeated as Big South players of the year. Bischoff was named Big South Midfielder of the Year for the second-straight season while Taylor repeated as the league's Defensive Player of the Year
- Both Bischoff and Taylor claimed First Team All-Big South honors for the third straight season, joining Melissa Placek (2017-19) as the only Camels named to the all-conference first team three times
- Attacker Rasa Welsh and Chandler Stewart were also named to the league's first team
- Campbell set program records for goals (269), assists (137), points (406), ground balls (400), draw controls (292) and caused turnovers (277)
- Three Camels set different single-season program records in 2023. Welsh set a program single-season record with 90 points behind 41 goals and 49 assists while Stewart recorded a record 58 ground balls and Taylor finished with a record 37 caused turnovers
NEW ERA IN THE CAA
- Campbell University officially became a member of the Coastal Athletic Association in all sports on July 1, 2023
- The addition of Campbell in 2023 increases the CAA's full membership to 14 schools, joining fellow new members North Carolina A&T, Hampton, Monmouth and Stony Brook as schools that have all joined in the last year
- The conference encompasses many of the nation's largest metropolitan areas with a geographic footprint that stretches from Boston to Charleston. It has produced 18 national team champions in five different sports and 33 individual national champions
- Campbell joined NCAA Division I in 1977 and became a charter member when the Big South Conference was formed in 1983. Campbell joined the Atlantic Sun Conference in the summer of 1994 and competed in the ASUN 17 years before returning to the Big South in the summer of 2011
HEAD COACH DAWN EASLEY
- Head coach Dawn Easley (Pfeiffer '05) enters her 11th season at the helm of Campbell Lacrosse
- Easley owns a 79-89 record at Campbell and a 137-120 record overall after spending five seasons as head coach of her alma mater Pfeiffer from 2008-13
- The Camels have improved its win total in three straight seasons under Easley, setting a program record with 12 wins in 2023
FIRST TIME OPPONENTS
- Campbell will face against eight first time opponents including a pair of non-conference matchups against Binghamton and Manhattan and six CAA foes in Hofstra, Drexel, Stony Brook, Delaware, Monmouth and Towson
UP NEXT
- Campbell continues on the road at another former Big South rival as it travels to Radford on Friday, Feb. 23
