The Story
From no team, to every team, to a championship
My town didn't have a lacrosse program. So I played up and down on whatever town teams would take me — filling in everywhere except the one season that matters most to college coaches: spring. I made up for it on summer-ball team after summer-ball team, just to stay on somebody's radar. Junior college taught me that playing time isn't given, it's built — in the reps nobody's watching. I transferred to Georgian Court University with one plan: play. An hour before our first fall practice, I found out I wasn't eligible for the year. I almost left that week to find another program. I decided to stay instead, and started the next season. By my senior year, our team had moved into a new conference, the CACC — and we won it. After college I coached for years — youth through college, boys' and girls' lacrosse — and got to see the game from the bench, the way the coaches who once believed in me did. Today I'm co-owner of 99 Elite Gym in Matawan, NJ, where we run small group training, athletic performance training, and nutrition coaching for athletes who are writing their own version of this story right now.
