The women's lacrosse program is off to a hot start with wins over number five Florida

and number six Boston College.

Head coach Hannah Nielsen stops by to talk about that hot start and the fact that she's

in her ninth season, four straight trips to the NCAA tournament.

What's in store for the rest of this year?

She'll let us know next on Conquering Heroes.

Welcome to your one-stop podcast for all things, Michigan Athletics.

Updates on every team on campus and interviews with players and coaches are all on the way.

This is Conquering Heroes.

Here's your host, John Chanson. Join now by the head coach of the

women's lacrosse program, Hannah Nielsen. Hannah, thanks for joining me. And it's been a nice start.

I know you're not undefeated, but you've got to be at least a little bit pleased with the results.

Yeah, thanks for having me.

Yeah, 100%. I think we deliberately scheduled pretty strong this year for multiple reasons.

But I think when we look at it as coaches going into the season,

you know, we knew we wanted to be at least two and two.

We thought going three and one would have been really good.

Four and O would have been amazing.

But we're really happy with the three and one start knocking off some great teams. The start of the season, that's four games in, what have you learned about your team in the short season that you've seen them in so far? Well, we're a young team. We graduated a lot of experience, at least like on the offensive end and through the midfield,

and the goals as well, we're playing a freshman. And I think that Notre Dame game, we were just,

we were nervy. We, I think, lacked a little bit of mental toughness, and we're focusing on that area. And the girls have responded really well. Like, I think they're a really energetic, eager to learn

and really like mentally now solid. They ride the mistakes, you know, well. They ride the waves

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