The UIndy women’s lacrosse team develops for the conference tournament

Jones said, and she tries her best to listen to the team’s suggestions, as she considers herself mild-mannered and easygoing. Additionally, Jones said she expressed her own perspective at times but gives the team leeway to show their own creativity, resulting in a successful collaborative effort. In spite of that, Fowley said they can be a stubborn group of girls but Jones overcame that.

“Seventy-five percent of our team right now is returners,” Fowley said. “And we’ve had the same program for three years. So it was a challenge to switch over, but a lot of our girls are loud-mouthed and proud of what they think so it definitely took some change to start fitting into this new program that’s changed for the better. And we’ve definitely changed some good things in terms of culture…. We’ve got some loud personalities.”