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# Daziel ready for chance to finally follow in sisters' footsteps for Pinkerton girls lacrosse
- URL: https://www.nh-highschoolsports.com/daziel-ready-for-chance-to-finally-follow-in-sisters-footsteps-for-pinkerton-girls-lacrosse/
- Published: 2021-04-13T19:45:04.000Z
- Updated: 2021-04-13T19:45:04.000Z
- Description: Caroline Daziel had a lacrosse stick in her hands before she even knew how to use them. The youngest of his four daughters, Rob Daziel remembers that each one of them was introduced to the game of lacrosse so early on that none of them likely remembers it. "Her grandmother handed her a stick the day
- Author: Joe Marchilena
- Tags: Division I, Astros, Caroline Daziel, girls lacrosse, NH High School Sports Insider, Pinkerton, slider, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2026-08-18 04:44

Caroline Daziel had a lacrosse stick in her hands before she even knew how to use them.

The youngest of his four daughters, Rob Daziel remembers that each one of them was introduced to the game of lacrosse so early on that none of them likely remembers it.

"Her grandmother handed her a stick the day she was born," the Pinkerton Academy girls lacrosse coach said. "It was in the bassinet with her. She did it with all of (Daziel’s kids), put little fiddle stick lacrosse sticks in with them. Fortunately, they all enjoyed it."

After watching three older sisters play for the Astros, and for the most part, with her dad as the coach, Caroline Daziel enters her senior season having waited a long time to leave her own mark on the program. While she played some varsity as a freshman, a knee injury ended the younger Daziel's season just a few games into her sophomore year.

Determined to make a strong comeback as a junior, and with one last chance to play with one of her sisters, Madison, Caroline Daziel saw that opportunity disappear when the COVID-19 pandemic ended the 2020 season before it began.

"We’ve been playing together since youth lacrosse," Caroline Daziel said. "We’d only had one year where we weren’t playing together. We have that bond on the field, we trust each other a lot, and it was very disappointing. And kind of heartbreaking, too, since we won’t be playing together again.

"I’ve always had a lacrosse stick in my hand. Watching all my sisters go through high school and be successful, I wanted to have that same mentality. It’s a motivation and to have those two setbacks, it’s hard. I put that behind me and this is like a new start."

It's a bit of a new start for Pinkerton as a whole.

While the Astros return a talented group of juniors and seniors, the two classes that have graduated since Pinkerton last played will leave holes that need to be filled, possibly by players who have yet to fully experience a varsity game or season.

"I think for the most part, we probably won’t miss a beat," Rob Daziel said. "But we lost that experience. Last year was one of our best teams from a talent and depth standpoint. This team is talented, too, but we’ll be playing a little different."

No matter what the Astros look like on the field, this season is the opportunity that Caroline Daziel has been dreaming about for two years, not just to see herself fully return from the injury, but also for a little bit of redemption.

"I was recruited before and then my injury happened and I kind of fell off the map," she said. "That was a big motivation piece, too. I wanted coaches to look at me and say they should have taken me before then."

She committed to play at Flagler College in St. Augustine, Fla., last summer after making what was a tough decision on many levels.

Wanting to go to a school in the South, but without any real video to show coaches since before her sophomore year, Caroline and Rob decided to chance traveling to North Carolina in June. The Southern Elite Showcase in Charlotte was her first lacrosse action since the injury, and after, a handful of Division II coaches reached out before Caroline Daziel decided on Flagler.

"I wanted to play down south and then I fell in love with the schools in Florida," she said. "I went to a showcase and felt like this was my way. I played my hardest and coaches started noticing again."

Seeing the way Caroline Daziel came back to get to the level she had been at previously, and have the opportunity to continue playing in college, was a proud moment for her father and her coach.

"She got recruited against pretty good odds, and now being a senior on the team, just the confidence level that comes with all of that," Rob Daziel said. "It seems like she hasn’t missed a beat. It’s good to have her back playing."

Now, with the spring season getting started, Caroline Daziel can focus on helping Pinkerton do what only one of her sisters was able to do - win a championship.

Rob Daziel's oldest daughter, Riann, was a senior when he took over as head coach in 2012 and went on to play lacrosse at the University of Mount Olive (N.C.), while Kennedy led the Astros to back-to-back titles in 2013-14 before continuing her career at Southern New Hampshire. Madison helped Pinkerton reach the final in 2019, and as a freshman at Winthrop University in South Caroline, she has two goals in 10 games this season.

"It’s just seeing my team be successful," Caroline Daziel said. "I want to be successful, too, but it’s a team sport. I would love it if I could get five goals a game, but I want the team to be successful. It would be nice to get a trophy."