Drexel Lands Half of Towson’s Famed Lacrosse Quadruplets

All 4 Schneidereith sisters will be playing Division I lacrosse next year. (Drexel, Albany, Hopkins) pic.twitter.com/1OrTEBzOeE

— Towson HS Athletics (@TowsonHSsports) November 11, 2015

If, in the spring of 2017, you happen to be watching a women’s lacrosse game at Drexel’s Vidas Field in West Philly and you think you’re seeing double: You won’t be. On National Signing Day this year, November 11th, Drexel head coach Hannah Rudloff managed to snag two of the Schneidereith sisters, a set of stick-wielding quadruplets out of Towson, Maryland.

Just two, Coach Rudloff?

Rudloff, now in her third season as head coach, laughs. “We were late for the first one,” she explains. That would be attacker Maggie, who committed “very early on” to Johns Hopkins. Goalie Georgia is headed to Albany — like JH and Drexel, a D-1 lacrosse school. That left Lucy and Jamie, both midfielders — and identical twins — to take the field for Rudloff, who couldn’t be more pleased.

“They’re really athletic — they have the stick skills and game field awareness you need at the D-1 level,” the coach says. “I’m excited to see them play together.” Will she be drawing up any trick twin plays? “I think we have to,” she laughs.

Rudloff has never had twins on one of her Drexel teams, but she has coached sisters, including her own, Jessica, for the 2013 season, when she was an assistant to the then-head coach. “I really enjoyed it,” she says of the experience. “I think it added to what really is a feeling of family at Drexel.”

Rudloff had a sterling playing career of her own — in high school at West Chester East, she was a first-team All America selection in 2005, and at Penn, she helped the Quakers to the NCAA Final Four in her last three seasons, as well as to the championship game in her junior year. She’ll be going for a second straight victory over city rival Villanova when the two teams meet on March 5th at Villanova. (Colonial Athletic Association play begins on April 4th.)

The Philadelphia region has a rich women’s lacrosse tradition, Rudloff notes—“It’s amazing how many D-1 coaches are from the area”—and while the city might seem a tough draw for recruits, she’s found the opposite to be true. “They’re surprised when they see our facilities, in the heart of the city. I love Philly, so it’s an easy sell for me.” Young women today, she says, “are more excited to be in a city than for that small-town thing.” Lucy and Jamie Schneidereith evidently agree.

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