Why Stony Brook deserves your respect
BY MARK MACYK Y
ears before she was on SportsCenter or the U.S. National Team, Kylie Ohlmiller sat in the stands at Stony Brook’s LaValle Stadium, and watched Northwestern win another NCAA title. Ohlmiller, too young at that point to even be recruited, thought how cool it might be to one day play for a lacrosse championship at Stony Brook.
The key word being at Stony Brook. Winning an NCAA title with Stony Brook? That was preposterous. “The idea of Stony Brook lacrosse didn’t even cross my mind,” Ohlmiller said. “I just thought it would be cool to play a Final Four on Long Island.” Courtney Murphy’s initial reaction to the idea of playing for Stony Brook was even less complimentary. When the player who would end up breaking the Division I scoring record in a Seawolf uniform received her first recruiting email from coach Joe Spallina, she laughed out loud.
“I showed the email to my dad and said, ‘Haha, I am not going to Stony Brook,’” Murphy said.
Murphy and Ohlmiller grew up on Long Island. They knew the assumptions. Stony Brook was a commuter school. It was for people who went away and came home because they missed their parents or they couldn’t find good bagels anywhere else. It wasn’t a place for serious lacrosse players.
But these days, thanks in STRONG ISLAND
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part to Murphy, Ohlmiller, and the coach that brought them there, Stony Brook lacrosse is no afterthought.
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