GALWAY - Ask anyone who participated in the new Irish Lacrosse League's first ever game
day on Oct. 10 how it went, and you will get a similar answer.

Women's National Team player Siobahn Carroll called it "a huge success, and a really fun day.
It has kicked the League off to a great start."

Irish Lacrosse League President Paddy O'Leary wrote on the League's Facebook page that
"the opening game day of the ILL was a resounding success, with 60 men's players and 35
women's players from the four clubs.  Congrats to all involved, especially the NUI Galway
Lacrosse Club and all the players that refereed that day."

NUIG Club organizer Ryan Doran said "I think the best way to describe it was unreal, the
weather was perfect and the games were a blast."

Carroll reported that a large group of players in the women's tournament came from University
College Dublin (UCD), and they were divided in to three even teams along another 15 players
from Dublin Lacrosse and the new club programs at Trinity and NUIG.  Each team played two
matches, and Carroll and other National Team players including Pamela Smithwick, Orla McCourt,
and Julie Clarke, UCD coach Katelin Billups, and Amie Regan, a former UCD player now studying
at NUIG, served as referees.

 
            WOMEN PLAYERS at the Irish Lacrosse League's first game day on Oct. 10 in Galway.

Doran added "The amount of Irish lacrosse players has exploded.  The players that have been
around a while couldn't get over the shear number of players.  This is going to be a great year!"

The ILL will hold its next game day on Saturday, Nov. 14, at UCD.