As one final way to prove the haters wrong, she had them print a message in her senior yearbook. See you on ESPN. Ohlmiller backed that up when her behind-the-back virtuosity was featured on SportsCenter’s Top 10 twice, most recently at the Team USA Fall Classic, where her performance earned her a spot on the World Cup training team. Ohlmiller’s experience playing among the best 25 players in the country should only further embolden her back on campus. “We literally came from the bottom,” Ohlmiller said. “I know that sounds funny, but we come from a place where people are doubters
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and haters. People still might not want success for us, and that’s what’s pushing us.” It’s a very Long Island attitude. More specifically, it’s the type of attitude you find in the towns the Seawolves come from. Theirs isn’t the Long Island of “The Great Gatsby.” Stony Brook’s players come from blue-collar towns like Shirley and Islip, Riverhead and Freeport. Places that, as Murphy said, “you never even realize have a lacrosse team.”
Carolyn Carrera
transferred to Stony Brook this year from Hofstra, Long Island’s other Division I program, and noticed it right away.
“She said we had a
different type of edge,” Murphy said. “A type of swagger with the way we carry ourselves and where we play. We definitely embrace the Long Island thing.”
The team from Long Island could win it all as soon as 2017, but next year a team will again win a title on Long Island. After both the NCAA men’s and women’s lacrosse championships are decided in Foxborough, Mass., the women’s final four returns to Stony Brook in 2018 for the first time since Ohlmiller watched from the stands.
She said the only way she’ll attend this time around is if she’s playing in it. USL
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Ohlmiller (left) is the first Stony Brook player to qualify for the U.S. team. Murphy is the first player in NCAA history to score 100 goals in a single season.
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