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YOUR EDGE] players
As you catch the pass, get your feet moving toward the target to build momentum. I use a crossover step, bringing my right foot behind my left foot.
fi rst: Catch the pass, looking the ball into your stick.
First thing’s
If the pass is low, a low-to-high shot can be utilized for a quick release. But work on fundamentals fi rst.
Ripping Cheddar, Picking Corners
Loyola All-American
Mike Sawyer shows off his lethal time-and-room shooting
HIT THE BOOKS
>> WHAT I DO I lived in Syracuse when I was STAY ROOTED
younger. My family was close with the Deskos, and I’m still good friends with Timmy Desko. We moved to Waxhaw, N.C., in 1998 when I was 10. We traveled back to Syracuse during the summers, and we stayed with the Deskos. We went to Syracuse Lacrosse Camp. But as the sport grew in North Carolina, and club teams added, we made sure to play in various events that helped me get recruited.
MISS ON PURPOSE
I’m very superstitious. I always miss the last shot before I come off the fi eld, when we’re in our pre-game shoot-around. My thought process: You’ve got to get the misses out of your system.
I never step on the line coming on or off the
fi eld. I stretch on the fl oor in the locker room, and I review the offensive keys. I like to keep it simple. I like to know what I’m going to do, so I can just react. I don’t like to think too much.
I’m a communications major. I enjoy the public relations side, which incorporates advertising. You get to see the communications side of a business and how you build a brand’s image. I’ve taken photo and video classes. I just completed my senior capstone in advertising, where we’re able to function as the company. Everyone had specifi c jobs as an ad agency, and we created plans to pitch to Under Armour. I’d love to fi nd a job in marketing, taking advantage of my Loyola degree.
86 LACROSSE MAGAZINE February 2013 >> A Publication of US Lacrosse
©JOHN STROHSACKER (ALL)
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