W
hen Zed Williams thinks about reaching Memorial Day weekend for the first time in his career, he immediately considers a conversation he’s had with his brothers. It’s not just the Virginia star and his teammates who would be making the trip to Foxborough in May. It truly would be a family affair for Williams’ four older brothers, Jon, JoJo, Zach and “Cornbread”, and one younger brother, Sherman. He also has two older sisters, Samantha and Mary. “They said, ‘How awesome would it be to experience that?’ And then they said, ‘We have to get there,’ because they always consider us as ‘we,’” Williams said. “One thing we always said about one another is that we’re always there for one another. Say my brother has a baby, then we all have a baby. If I’m here at Virginia, we’re all here at Virginia.” Family is deeply important
to Williams, a member of the Seneca Nation who grew up on the Cattaraugus Reservation just south of Buffalo. But as a new wave of Native Americans permeates college lacrosse two years after the graduation of two-time Tewaaraton winner Lyle Thompson, the sport should realize the soft-spoken Williams is not a carbon copy of the former Albany star. Beyond that, though, there should be zero questions about the biggest priority in Williams’ life as he enters his final college season. “When the school year begins, Zed is typically the last man to show up on grounds,” first-year Virginia coach Lars Tiffany said. “It’s just a fact he’s spending
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