Next for Hampton? The first season of
Hampton lacrosse was like a West Coast baseball game in a rain delay. “SportsCenter” only showed the beginning. ESPN’s flagship program was there with a two-hour special Feb. 13 when Hampton became the first historically black college or university to play a Division I men’s lacrosse game since Morgan State disbanded in 1981.
But what happened after the cameras left?
teammates before they left her mother’s apartment in Mazze for a new life.
The three women drove from Syria into Lebanon. They passed through two Syrian army security barriers before arriving in Beirut, a city on the Mediterranean coast of Lebanon.
“[Beirut] is literally one hour away, but it looked so much more peaceful than where I was before,” Lana Oudat said. That night, Yara Oudat stood with Jasmine, her friend that had escaped the violence months before, on her rooftop, gazing at planes taking off at Beirut–Rafic Hariri International Airport. “This is it,’” Jasmine said to Yara. “You’re leaving.” The next morning, Yara, Lana and Lama Oudat boarded a Lufthansa plane in Beirut, flew four hours to Geneva, Switzerland, and then made an eight-hour flight bound for Dulles Airport in Washington, D.C. Lana and Yara’s aunt picked them up in her SUV and drove them to her home in Centreville, Va. During the 30-minute ride, they noticed green trees and houses organized in developments. “I just wanted to see everything,” Yara Oudat said. “I wanted to go to the movie theater and malls and everything.” America wasn’t that much different than what Lana Oudat had pictured.
“Now I am in the movie,” she said. “I’m one of the movie characters.’”
laxmagazine.com June 2016 » LACROSSE MAGAZINE 35
Mark Macyk has a special Hampton follow-up, and LM examines the struggles of four other HBCU lacrosse teams to remain viable, at
LaxMagazine.com/HBCU.
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