Last night the Roanoke College Men’s Lacrosse Team piled into Massengill Auditorium on the campus of Roanoke College to watch a short movie where the main characters were very familiar. The Rebuilding Year documents the Roanoke College Men’s Lacrosse Team’s amazing 2011 season which included a conference championship, a trip to the NCAA Semifinals, and on the way to the Semifinals a chance to beat Stevenson University in Quarterfinals – the same team that ended their 2010 campaign in sudden death overtime in the 2010 Quarterfinals.

At the end of the 2010 season, the Maroons graduated one of their best classes in the history of their program. Many fans, loyal and not, assumed that the 2011 team, which was primarily composed of freshmen, would struggle during their 2011 campaign. Matt Burkhead, the founder and editor of GoNoke.org and TQM had been following the team throughout the season and decided to create a documentary after the team’s conference championship win. Piecing together game footage, on-the-field footage, and a few interviews, The Rebuilding Year was created over the last seven months and debuted online and in Massengill Auditorium last night.

Watch the short documentary on YouTube at
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ePJ9hEE0G38

or on GoNoke.org at
http://www.ry.gonoke.org