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Gauchos Head to Hawaii

Oct. 28, 2010

Waikiki, HI - UCSB women's lacrosse will travel west to play in the 20th Annual Hawaii Lacrosse Tournament this weekend. Games will be played on the island of Oahu at Kapiolani Park near Diamondhead and Waikiki The opener for the Gauchos is an 11:30am game on Saturday verus Chushikoku U-20 from Japan. 

It's been three years since the last UCSB trip to Hawaii. The Gauchos went in 2007 but were unable to fully participate in the tournament. An unavoidable flight schedule had the team leaving too early to play in the afternoon games on Sunday. UCSB went 4-0 in Hawaii that year but played games outside the regular tournament brackets. This time the Sunday evening flight is affordable and UCSB will play in the tournament while aiming for the championship.

Pictured at right is UCSB midfielder Alyssa Nelsen in action in Hawaii her freshman year. Nelsen is one of two Gauchos to have gone to Hawaii with the team her freshman year and, now, her senior year. Ashley Antoon-Algieri is the other player in the class of 2011 who is on the Hawaii travel team now and was also on it then.