Coaching is a lot about adapting to adverse situations. Sometimes desperate times require desperate measures.
So as 38-year veteran lacrosse coach Cindy Timchal took her team out of Navy-Marine Corps Memorial Stadium and into the locker room after what would be the Mids’ final practice of 2020, the call went out to local restaurant Vin 909. Navy needed flatbread pizza stat!
“We needed comfort food,” Timchal said of the impromptu March 11 lunch.
In truth, there wasn’t much comfort to be had. Not for the Navy women’s lacrosse team. Any college athletes, or really anyone anywhere. The realities of the coronavirus pandemic were revealing themselves rapidly by early March.
