Team USA // U19 Men’s World Championship Preview
HIS TRUE CALLING
Maryland and Team USA faceoff man Austin Henningsen is on the right track at the X BY MATT HAMILTON
Austin Henningsen must be grateful for his grandparents — or at least where they lived. Growing up on Long Island, he played midfield and attack on youth teams, but decided in sixth grade to go for faceoff lessons with his grandparents’ neighbor — then-Adelphi assistant Matt Schomburg. Schomburg — an Australian who won the 1995 national title with the Panthers — preached technique. Henningsen listened. By his freshman year at Northport (N.Y.) High School, he was the faceoff man for the varsity team. That’s when he figured it out. “I was doing pretty well in our league and it just really took off,” Henningsen said. “I knew I was going to be a faceoff guy.”
Henningsen has continued his ascent over the next five years, signing on with coach John Tillman at Maryland and making the 25-player roster cut for the U.S. under-19 men’s national team ahead of this month’s Federation of International Under-19 World Championship in Coquitlam, British Columbia.
50 LACROSSE MAGAZINE
As a freshman this year at Maryland, » July/august 2016
A Publication of US Lacrosse
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