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Team USA coach Ricky Fried said that Munday’s low-key, selfless attitude and unflashy but effective play make her the embodiment of what he and his staff are trying to do with the U.S. offense.
“I don’t think she gets a lot of credit because people don’t like to notice the smart things that people do,” Fried said. “They like to notice the flashy things that people do. But she’s fundamentally very sound on the offensive end. She is the voice of the offense and she gets everybody organized together.”
The U.S. will be facing a 19-team field in the tournament, the largest in FIL Women’s World Cup history. Four teams — Hong Kong, Israel, Latvia and Sweden — are first-time FIL women’s event participants. Canada is hosting a women’s senior FIL event for the first time in Oshawa, and the Canadians hope to surpass their third-place showing in Prague in 2009. All 18 players on Team Canada have an NCAA affiliation, including 2009 Tewaaraton finalist Dana Dobbie (Maryland), two-time MPSF Player of the Year Megan Takacs (Cal) and 2013 NCAA champion and All-American Abbey Friend (North Carolina). Still, Team USA is the team to beat, followed closely by Australia. Team USA opens play with a round- robin game against England at 8 p.m. ET on July 11.
Defender Holly McGarvie Reilly, who, like Munday, played on the 2009 U.S. team, said the word that comes to mind when she thinks of her teammates is passion.
“It echoes from the preparation we’ve put into it, to represent the United States and to just go together as a team, and not a set of individuals,” she said. LM
The Onondaga Community College men’s lacrosse team extended its record win streak to 70 straight games while capturing a fifth straight NJCAA title this year.
OCC Win Streak ‘Icing on the Cake’
The Syracuse area sent a representative to the semifinals of nearly every NCAA lacrosse tournament this spring, but no local team could match the success of Onondaga Community College. When the Lazers
defeated Nassau CC, 15- 11, in the NJCAA men’s championship game on May 12, it wasn’t just their fifth straight national title or their seventh in eight years. It was their 70th victory in a row, one more than the previous record held by Division III Salisbury for the longest men’s collegiate winning streak ever. “We didn’t even think about the streak until after we actually broke it,” Onondaga coach Chuck Wilbur said. “Our goal was to win the championship. The streak was the cherry on the sundae, the icing on the cake.” It’s a delicious ending
>>MLL HEATS UP
Major League Lacrosse enters the heart of its season this month with two of the league’s signature events: Denver’s annual July 4 fireworks game and MLL All- Star weekend July 13-14 in Charlotte, N.C. Visit
LaxMagazine.com/MLL for recaps, photos and more.
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for a team whose winning tradition benefits all those other successful schools in central New York. The champs will send three players — Randy Staats, Niko Manning and Ryan Vella — to Syracuse alone. Never losing and a ticket to a four-year school is an easy sell.
“Obviously everyone wants to play for a winner,” Wilbur said. “Plus I think kids watch TV on national championship weekend and see Cody Jamieson and all the players who came through this program. They want to win a championship, they also want the
opportunity to go to an elite Division I school.”
Onondaga provides that opportunity. Every one of its sophomores — the Lazers don’t really have backups, Wilbur said his 30th guy can hang with his fifth — is moving on to a four-year
school from Syracuse to Stevenson to Marquette to Limestone.
They’ll arrive with unmatched winning pedigrees. Onondaga went 18-0 this year, winning its games by an average score of 25-5. The Lazers topped 30 goals four times and held seven opponents two goals or fewer. Staats (73 goals, 83 assists for 156 points) and Limestone-bound Jordan Saunderson (62, 55, 117) ranked first and fourth in the country in points.
— Mark Macyk
Monroe Wins Women’s Title The Monroe CC women capped an undefeated season by beating Anne Arundel CC, 17-15, in the NJCAA championship game May 12. Melanie Murphy tallied eight goals and five assists in the national tournament and was named its most outstanding player.
©RON MODRA (BM); LEE WEISSMAN (OCC)
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