Apply now to play at DVC in Fall 2024
Good day to all of you! The application is now available to play for DVC Lacrosse for the Fall 2024 season. As some of you know, the Vikings play in the Fall term. DVC has the only club or intermural lacrosse program in California! The program also has a very rich history, starting in 2008 and it is important for our lacrosse players coming in to know how the young men, who started the program, persisted in the face of adversity to start this program. Since its inception, the only thing that could stop the Vikings was COVID!
The model for the DVC program is that the Vikings play in the fall semester. This developed for several reasons: 1) we were the first community college lacrosse program in CA and in order to have games, we needed to compete against the northern CA, Oregon and Nevada universities. They could only play us in the Fall; 2) playing in the fall preserves players eligibility to play in the Men’s Collegiate Lacrosse Association (MCLA). In other words, players could play at DVC for 2-4 years while earning their transfer associate degrees, transfer to an MCLA university lacrosse program and still have four years of eligibility. So, while players who attend universities directly only have four years of eligibility; the Viking players who transfer and play, can compete from 4-8 years potentially! 3) starting at a community college is smart economically; within California, first time college students who have graduated from high school are eligible for a Free Tuition program! As a result, students can earn the first half of their bachelor degree education with paying college tuition! This essentially reduces the cost of a bachelor’s degree to 50% of what students and/or parents pay if students go directly to a university; 4) DVC lacrosse is high level lacrosse. Since 2008, the Vikings have amassed a 63% win rate against university teams, with historic wins over UC Berkeley, Stanford, Sonoma State, Cal Poly SLO, Santa Clara University, Dominican University (NCAA D-2) and Notre Dame de Namur (NCAA D-2).
To get started at DVC, complete a DVC application NOW for Summer of 2024! Then follow the steps for the assessment process, and orientation. Ideally, you will enroll in early summer in the COUNS-096, class, the orientation for student athletes, in addition to KNICA-199 the pre-season summer lacrosse class.
We welcome you to DVC and DVC athletics. If you have questions about the enrollment process, email Terry Armstrong at tarmstrong@dvc.edu. If you have specific questions about the lacrosse program, email Coach Drew Welch at awelch@dvc.edu .