USA
INSIDER THE ONE THAT GOT AWAY
IF I HAD PULLED IT OUT AND JUST THROWN IT TO EAMON MCENEANEY OR TOM POSTEL, WE WOULD HAVE BURIED THE GAME RIGHT THERE.
arrived at Brown in fall 1970, the first in a large Catholic Italian-Irish family to leave Long Island for college. I was recruited to play football and was a co-captain of the freshman team. My high school, Valley Stream Central, did not have lacrosse, even though powerhouse programs at Elmont, Lynbrook and Sewanhaka surrounded us. Hard as it may be to imagine, I simply had never seen lacrosse before arriving in Providence, R.I. A buddy on the football team talked me into playing that spring of 1971, and I fell in love with everything about the game from that first day. I also decided that I wanted to be known for being more than just a good athlete and worked relentlessly on improving my stick work. My trick question to young campers is whether they are allowed to work outside on the wall if it rains or snows. I don’t think I missed a day after first picking up a stick that spring. I tried out for the U.S. team in 1977. Imagine my joy upon receiving the letter announcing my selection. To this day, it sits near the top of a very short list of my most memorable athletic achievements. I was in great shape and very excited as we moved toward the start of those 1978 games in Stockport, England. I was so proud to be part of a U.S. team that had never lost a game.
COACHES CORNER
SHOOT SMART
“Motivate guys to become better shooters. Shoot for corners. Shoot off hip. Shoot low and away. We’ll do a drill
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where we ask guys to hit a pipe. But now, just because they can shoot hard, just because they can get their hands back, just
because they can shoot on the run, that’s not enough. Now, they’ve got to be smart shooters. They’ve got to be
scorers. There’s a difference between a
scorer and a shooter.” — JOHN DANOWSKI, HEAD COACH, DUKE AND U.S. MEN’S TEAM
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