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Unprecedented TV (38 games produced by ESPN) and social media (12.6 million impressions through USL and LM) and a record 38 countries — you can almost taste the Olympics.
SCOTLAND Playing in memory of
Robert Hetherington, one of the best players in Scottish lacrosse history who died in 2013 serving the British Army, the Scots knocked off Japan en route to a spot in the coveted Blue Division for 2018.
ISRAEL
MATT BROWN A rising star among
Ronald Otim’s father was killed by the LRA, a rebel group that terrorized northern Uganda. He also lost his sister, who drowned after fainting due to malaria, and his mother, who died of HIV.
college coaches, the Denver assistant retooled Canada’s offense expertly, putting it in the calculating hands of Jeremy Noble while leveraging Curtis Dickson and Kevin Crowley. It’s only a matter of time before he gets a top job in D-I.
COLORADO LACROSSE
More than 11,000 fans showed up for the U.S.-Canada games. Was the NCAA paying attention?
overnight on a hot 15-passenger taxi to plead the team’s case. Strained relations between the U.S. and Uganda over an anti- gay law signed by the president of Uganda in February added complexity to the proceedings. (A Ugandan court later declared the legislation unconstitutional.) Some players were pressured by friends and family to get paid. “Some don’t have money to pay for their own meals,” Dixon says. “Why would they pay money to get to a practice? Sometimes you question their commitment, but, lacrosse, is not for survival.” Castro David Onen and Keneth
A Publication of US Lacrosse
Keith “Lubes” Lubangakene know about survival. They are among the eight players from the northern region of Uganda, where the Joseph Kony-led Lord’s Resistance Army kidnapped, brainwashed and enlisted children as soldiers in the 1990s and 2000s.
Onen, one of four children, fled the Kitgum District when he was 15, after his father died fighting the LRA. The family found refuge with an uncle in Kampala. He became a baker.
Lubes grew up in Gulu and also left the North with his family to escape the terror of the LRA. Fleeing in the night, they were
BILL TIERNEY Brown’s boss at
Denver dusted off his stick and played for Cloudsplitters in the 60-and-over division of the World Lacrosse Festivals. “The game comes back to you,” he said. Of the world games’ vast
reach, Tierney
added, “Our campus is like a United Nations.’’
Israel featured several Jewish American standouts like former Dartmouth sensation Ari Sussman. With their homeland in mind (several players have served or will serve in the Israel Defense Forces fighting in Gaza), the Israelis started 5-0, gave Australia and England fits and finished in seventh place.
WARREN HILL
The Iroquois goalie and Onondaga transfer made an early case to be the starter at Syracuse next spring. Hill, the NJCAA Player of the Year at Onondaga, was impressive in a round- robin loss to the U.S. and a quarterfinal win over Scotland.
DAVID LAWSON Lawson’s stock has skyrocketed since his senior year at Duke. He played his way onto Team USA’s first midfield and the All- World team.
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