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New Blood By Natalie Guajardo ’16
Photo by Erik Pedersen
T
here’s a new women’s
Miller also was an assistant coach for both the women’s lacrosse
lacrosse head coach in
and field hockey programs at Washington & Jefferson University.
town, and she’s aiming
Among her goals for the spring, says Miller, is for the team to
to shake things up. Since
remain consistently competitive throughout the season. Last year,
arriving on campus in July,
the Gophers had a 0–4 record, ranking last out of the five teams
Ceri Miller has increased the
in the conference. The 2014–15 season promises to be even more
team’s daily workout schedule
competitive: The Landmark Conference, to which Goucher belongs,
to two-a-day practices
has added two new teams, Elizabethtown College and the U.S.
(weight lifting and running
Merchant Marine Academy.
in the morning; drills in the
Miller,” says Assistant Coach Stacey Williams. “It’s amazing to
academic consultations with
already see a difference in the team and its work ethic.”
all first-semester players
To further encourage bonding and strengthen leadership
and any team member whose GPA slips below 2.75. And she’s
skills, Miller is incorporating community service into the lacrosse
emphasizing that responsibility for the whole team’s success lies
program—organizing team activities from painting Halloween
with each individual player.
pumpkins for a pediatric hospital to running clinics for other area
“I said from the beginning that we need to change our team GOUCHER QUARTERLY | WINTER 2014
“We are extremely excited to have a coach as talented as
afternoon). She holds weekly
lacrosse teams. The coach also expects team members to help
culture because if we don’t, we are going to end up exactly
recruit future lacrosse players by hosting prospective students on
where we’ve been the last couple years,” says Miller, who came
overnight visits. Thus far, Miller has high hopes for the season:
to Goucher after serving since 2010 as an assistant coach at
“I’m really excited to see where the team goes.” §
Dickinson College. A 2008 graduate of McDaniel College,
The Hazards of Social Media
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By Gwendolyn Moiles ’15
Noting that a majority of employers investigate the online profiles of job candidates before making a hiring decision, software engineer Chris Baum urged about 90 Goucher first-year athletes to use caution when posting personal information online. “Where do we draw the line between social life and work life on the Internet?” he asked. “Privacy doesn’t exist on the Internet. Once something is online, it’s there forever.” Baum, an application development expert at RoadNet Technologies, a Towson-based firm that offers worldwide support to trucking companies, came to campus to discuss with Goucher first-year athletes the dos and don’ts of using social media. His talk, “#Fun#DumbPicture#SitTheBench,” is one of eight discussions organized by Sally Baum, women’s tennis head coach; Tati Korba, women’s soccer head coach; and others, and aimed at enhancing the athletes’ college experiences both on and off the field. Other discussions photos by Emma Rice ’17
have included a talk for second-year athletes led by Matt Stover, former Baltimore Ravens kicker, who spoke about motivation and passion in sports. Using examples of Twitter and Facebook faux pas (such as a man who gained widespread attention after being fired for bad-mouthing his boss on Facebook) and statistics (for example, more than 340 million Tweets are posted on Twitter every day), Chris Baum, who is Coach Baum’s son, encouraged the students to think before sharing personal information online. “Freedom of speech doesn’t mean freedom from consequences,” he cautioned. §