Stephen Kelly will join his older
brother Frankie at North Carolina. Cousin Patrick, a Calvert Hall senior attackman, will already be there. Other next-generation Kellys include Stephen’s cousins Johnny, a Calvert Hall junior midfi elder committed to Ohio State, and David, a redshirt freshman defenseman at Rutgers. It further fuels the notion that the Kellys are like Baltimore lacrosse royalty. And the infl ux of future Kelly stars
won’t likely end anytime soon. Bryan’s sons Jacob, David, Joshua and Caleb will join cousins Timmy, J.K., Micaiah and Boaz to give the Kellys a potential presence at Calvert Hall through 2028. They’re like the Stanwicks, whose best
player, Steele, is the reigning Tewaarton Award winner for defending NCAA Division I champion Virginia. (Frank Kelly insists there is no rivalry there.) The Kelly legacy started when Frank ventured to Cornell in the late 1970s, continued with his brothers’ migration to North Carolina and Washington College and now fl ourishes in the skilled hands of their sons.
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Stephen Kelly does it all for Calvert Hall (Md.), the No. 1 team in the Mid-Atlantic (page 60). He will follow a family legacy to North Carolina that includes his uncle, Cardinals coach Bryan Kelly (inset).
So far there has not been a star
female Kelly player, although Stephen’s sister Jackie is a promising middle school goalie who sometimes attempts to stop her brothers’ shots in front of a goal in the backyard of their Lutherville, Md., home. Still, Stephen is the most precocious Kelly at this point. “We feel very, very good about our
team,” Flynn said. “If we didn’t feel Stephen could handle the pressure, we wouldn’t have picked him.” LM
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