Lacrosse Biography

For as long as I can remember lacrosse has been a huge part of my life. My dad and his cousin helped to start the lacrosse program in Rocky River. He has been coaching for 18 years so in the spring my weekends and sometimes weekdays were filled with travelling to different venues to watch the team play. My brother and sister both play lacrosse. My brother who graduated last year played for four years at the high school and my sister who was a freshman last year on the varsity team. My dad has been playing since high school and ended up playing Division III lacrosse at Ohio Wesleyan. Lacrosse is a way of life in my family.

I officially started to play in 1st grade. My dad helped organize a couple teams and we would alternate playing ten minute games. At that stage of my playing career I wasn’t very good (mainly because the stick was bigger than I was). As I aged I moved up and played through the Rocky River Youth lacrosse program which my dad had help set up. In 3rd grade the teams started to get more competitive and we began to travel to places around Cleveland. In 5th grade my skill was more developed which made playing much more fun. After the regular season where I played up on the 6th grade team I decided to tryout for a summer league travel team called …show more content…
On my brother’s college visit to Northwestern we ended the day watching the Northwestern Women’s lacrosse team play. When we were in Virginia visiting my dad’s friend, we saw a Virginia men’s lacrosse game. Over family vacation when we went to Maryland my sister had a lacrosse tournament a couple miles from where we were staying. All in all everywhere I have gone lacrosse has been there. It is something that brings my family tighter together. At the tournaments that they could my brother and sister were there and we would always talk about the games afterward. In return I went to all my siblings games and enjoyed watching them