s a young boy living in the upstate New York town of Marcellus, Charlie Lockwood excelled at basketball, football and baseball, while rooting
for the men’s basketball team at neighboring Syracuse University.
When his family moved a short distance and settled in the
West Genesee school district, an area dominated then and now by lacrosse, Lockwood was a seventh-grader with no idea how much the relocation would alter his world. “I remember I was looking forward to baseball tryouts and talking to some guys about it one day, and all of them had lacrosse sticks in their hands. That was new to me,” Lockwood said. “When I talked about baseball, they shook their heads and said, ‘No, we play lacrosse around here.’ “When I picked up a stick for the first time that year, these guys were light years ahead of me,” he added. “I was just a raw athlete who could really run. After about a week of being really frustrated trying to catch up, I told my coach I was done [with lacrosse].”
Lockwood was talked out of that kneejerk solution. As it turned out, he was just getting started with a game that eventually would define him as a competitor and take him to lacrosse’s highest honor. Within a few years, he became a star midfielder, then won a state title with undefeated West Genesee High School as a senior in 1990. Lockwood, who admitted he “bled Orange before I even got there,” moved on to Syracuse, where he played under legendary coach Roy Simmons Jr. with outstanding results.
Charlie Lockwood, part of the nine-member Hall of Fame Class of 2015, won an NCAA title at Syracuse and a pair of world championships with Team USA.
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Lockwood followed another Orange legend in the fall of 1990 by taking on a challenge suggested by Simmons. He agreed to wear Gary Gait’s No. 22. Lockwood would win an NCAA crown in 1993 at Syracuse, where he earned All-American honors four times.
Lockwood capped a tremendous decade of achievement by winning
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