of her focus is on her team’s ambitions.
“The national championship,
that’s the big thing,” Gait said. “That’s the one thing on her mind.” Win, and Treanor might be able to unseat Cummings for the Tewaaraton. The last attacker to win the college lacrosse’s most coveted individual honor was Northwestern’s Shannon Smith in 2011. Maybe not so coincidentally, Smith led the Wildcats to the national title. Only four Tewaaraton winners have come from a team that did not win the national championship. “That’s really the only goal,”
draw prowess, it bolsters her Tewaaraton case with her increased impact on her team’s success, while Cummings has the opportunity to become the first-ever three-time Tewaaraton winner in 2016.
“I think Kayla and I would both give anything to win a national championship and conference championship over winning a Tewaaraton,” Cummings said. “There’s a lot that happens towards the beginning of June. I think we have done so well because we don’t care about individual awards.”
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“Individual awards don’t come unless the team is there,” Cummings added. “I just know that without them, I wouldn’t even have one Tewaaraton, let alone two. I really try my best to not think about it. That just gets in my head.” Treanor has done everything but win a national title or a Tewaaraton Award. The reigning Attacker of the Year is just the fifth player in Syracuse history to score 200 career goals. She ranked fourth in points in program history when the year began, but all
Treanor has added a dominant draw game to her repertoire in 2016.
Treanor said of the team title. “After that, your personal success is just a byproduct of your team’s success. That comes secondary to our main goal, which is to win a national championship and win ACCs.” But both figure prominently in that team success, too. Through 10 games, Cummings leads the top- ranked team in the country in points per game (3.9), caused turnovers per game (2.9), draw controls per game (5.7) and ground balls per game (3.1). Treanor leads Syracuse in points per game (4.5), goals per game (2.67), assists per game (1.83) and draw controls per game (9.5). Treanor said Cummings is “the ultimate teammate” who rarely has a bad day or a bad moment within a game. But back in College Park, Cummings has been doing her homework. She wasn’t surprised Treanor took over in the midfield. After watching a couple Syracuse games, she noted Treanor’s wrist strength and stick work has translated to her success in the draw circle. “What she does is magical,” said Cummings. “There’s no way I could do any of that. To just kind of watch her play and do her thing is awesome. She’s an awesome player and she will have left a legacy at Syracuse and in the lacrosse world in general.”
May 2016 » LACROSSE MAGAZINE 35
©GREG WALL
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