I don’t know about you, but I’m not sure I’m ready to get out in the cold and watch some lacrosse games just yet. The last few days have been great, but there’s a risk in starting the "spring" season this early, what with the potential for snow and all.

Give me a couple more weeks? No? Well, OK.

I guess there’s no surprise at which team is first up. The Naval Academy likes to be out in front and so does coach Cindy Timchal.

In 2006, when Timchal was still coaching at Maryland, the Terrapins were scheduled to open at home against Northwestern on Feb. 12. It snowed – a lot. Too much to get it all off the turf field in time, so the game was postponed to the next – frigid – day.

It doesn’t look like that will happen tonight when Navy opens against first-year Division I program Presbyterian College from Clinton, S.C., at 7:30 at Navy-Marine Corps Stadium in Annapolis.

The Midshipmen know a little something about how the Presbyterian players feel heading into their DI debut. A year ago, the Midshipmen were embarking on their first season in Division I. They did pretty well, finishing 13-4, and now they're ready to build on that.

Timchal, who has more wins than any other NCAA women's lacrosse coach, could get her 350th career win tonight, so she knows how to bring a program along. She wants to develop a program that can do battle with top teams such as Maryland and Virginia, but she doesn’t want to move too fast.

She has the same level of schedule as last season, and that enables her to make room for a couple of first-year programs the way others did for her last season. Detroit Mercy, also making its Division I debut this season comes to Annapolis on Feb. 22.

Here are the home openers for the other area Division I women’s teams:

UMBC at Howard, tomorrow

Maryland at Richmond, Sunday

Loyola at Stony Brook, Wednesday

Johns Hopkins at home against George Mason, Feb. 21

Mount St. Mary’s at home against Lehigh, Feb. 22

Towson at home against Mount St. Mary’s, Mar. 1