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Country Strong I
No better way to go out than on top with Team USA
’m a sucker for patriotism.
My first running mix featured Lee
Greenwood’s “God Bless the USA.” Hacksaw Jim Duggan used to be my favorite pro wrestler, because I too could march around in tight blue trunks with a two-by-four chanting “U-S-A!” When I first visited Baltimore’s Fort McHenry three years ago, I nearly cried with pride as the video presentation ended and the movie screen receded to reveal a window to the very spot where an American flag with its broad stripes and bright stars inspired Francis Scott Key to write our national anthem. So I get it.
I get why Casey Powell, arguably the greatest lacrosse player of his generation, feels like his decorated career would be incomplete without another gold medal. I get why Gina Oliver and Megan Huether came out of retirement for another dance with this
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historically dominant 2013 U.S. World Cup team. There can’t be a better way to go out than on top of the medal stand with “The Star Spangled Banner” blaring and an American flag draped over your shoulders. Just ask Brian Dougherty, the trash-talking tough guy that oozes Philadelphia like a cheesesteak oozes wiz. After beating Canada for his last hurrah in 2010, the three- time MLL Goalie of the Year wore the stars and stripes like a cape. Tears filled his eyes as Kyle Sweeney hugged him from behind and kissed him on the cheek. “Now that’s how you retire,” Dougherty bragged. Powell wants that feeling.
That’s why the 37-year-old will make one last run at Team USA when tryouts for the 2014 U.S. men’s team commence Aug. 30-Sept. 1 at Goucher College. Powell came out of MLL retirement —“We’ve got a lot of fighter pilots,” Chesapeake Bayhawks
coach Dave Cottle told him. “All we need is an aircraft carrier.” — and put on a crowd-pleasing, virtuoso performance July 18. Playing on the Bayhawks’ second midfield line, he looked 10 years younger as he spun behind-the- back passes and stopped, dropped and rolled his way to the game-tying goal with 5 seconds left in regulation of Chesapeake’s 13-12 overtime victory over the Boston Cannons at Navy- Marine Corps Memorial Stadium in Annapolis, Md. “I continue to surprise myself and I think other people,” said Powell, whose summer training regimen involved little more than jogging and occasionally stepping in with a U11 team he coaches. “I don’t know how I keep maintaining this.” Nine days later, the U.S.
Sean Burns Online Manager A New England native who
still doesn’t get the fascination with “flow,” Sean was a (club) All- American at Loyola and has covered the game since, including as online manager for Inside Lacrosse. He lives in Baltimore with his fiancée and their menagerie, lamenting lost days of laying people out on slides from the crease while sticking to old- man sports like soccer and kickball.
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Shannon Minter Events Associate Yes, the US Lacrosse events
associate stalking your youth team to score the latest lax socks was a college hoops star. Shannon helped Marist to the NCAA Sweet 16 in 2007. Minter, recently inducted into the Ossining (N.Y.) High Hall of Fame, owns more than 100 pairs of shoes (mostly Air Jordans) and cherishes her New York Giants tattoo. Ironically, she’s afraid of heights.
tryout pool came out. Powell would get his shot. He wants to go out like his brother Ryan did as co-captain of the 2010 team. “I feel like I’ve been training for this moment my whole life. It would be an honor to play for the U.S. national team and put that jersey on. If I continue to play the way I did [against Boston], hopefully they will consider me,” said Powell, who was co-captain of the 2006 team that lost to Canada in the FIL final. “I’m still bitter. In 2006, I was prepared physically, but not mentally. I have more experience. Ryan did a great job of leading his team. He wasn’t a starter, but he was great in the locker room. I would love the opportunity to help [the U.S.] win a gold medal in any capacity I could.”
I get goose bumps just thinking about it. LM
— Matt DaSilva
mdasilva@uslacrosse.org A Publication of US Lacrosse
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