Women's Lacrosse Joins The Big South Conference
6/7/2021 2:00:00 PM | Women's Lacrosse
Mercer will be an associate member for women's lacrosse
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (www.BigSouthSports.com) – The Big South Conference announced today that it has added three associate members in the sport of Women's Lacrosse - the Mercer Bears, Furman Paladins, and Wofford Terriers, effective with the 2022 season. The three additions join Campbell, Gardner-Webb, High Point, Longwood, Presbyterian College, Radford and Winthrop and increases the Big South's women's lacrosse sponsorship to a league-high 10 programs.
The three schools previously competed in the Southern Conference, which is no longer sponsoring the sport.  Furman was 12-5 overall last season and was the SoCon regular-season champion with a 4-0 record. Mercer was 7-8 overall (2-2 SoCon), and knocked off the Paladins, 14-13, to win the SoCon Tournament. Wofford finished 2-9 (1-3 SoCon) in 2021.
Mercer began women's lacrosse in the spring of 2015, and head coach Samantha Eustace has led the program to incredible success. Over the first seven years as a program, Mercer has compiled 56 wins and was the only program to win a Southern Conference Tournament Championship, doing so three times. Mercer qualified for its first NCAA Tournament during the 2018 season and again in 2019. The latest tournament appearance for the Bears came during the 2021 campaign.
"We are excited to be joining the Big South Conference for women's lacrosse," said Eustace. "They are a very strong conference and we have played a number of those teams every year. We appreciate everything the Southern Conference has done for Women's Lacrosse. We look forward to competing for the Big South Championship next spring."
Mercer, the only school to win a Southern Conference women's lacrosse tournament title, will look to capture its first Big South crown in 2022.Â
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