COLLEGE PREVIEW 2014 NCAA DIVISION II WOMEN’S PRESEASON PLAYER OF YEAR
Vision Quest Y
Set to surpass Jen Adams, not even Jackie Sileo could foresee her record- setting career at LIU Post
By Mark Macyk
ou only need to watch for a few minutes to know that LIU Post’s Jackie Sileo can see things. She has an uncanny knack for finding the player who wasn’t open, with a pass that shouldn’t exist.
Sileo started honing that extrasensory vision years ago, on a driveway on Long Island’s South Shore.
“When I was little I would be shooting free throws, and I’d ask my mom to watch me play,” Sileo said. “If I missed
she’d say, ‘Just visualize it going in.’ Every time I did it after that, it would.” These days, before big games, Sileo and roommate Katie Rotan will sit in the locker room and visualize how their games will go. Over the past two years, they’ve foreseen nothing but success. LIU Post hasn’t lost since 2012. But you would need a pretty vivid imagination to visualize the kind of career Sileo has had. Sileo’s collegiate resume reads like Pioneers fan fiction. Last year, she became Division II’s all-time leader in points and the NCAA’s all-time leader in assists in any division. She rewrote LIU Post’s single-season record book with 117 assists and 178 points. Then she broke her NCAA tournament record by putting up 20 points to lead the Pioneers to their second straight title. The championships were something harder to visualize in Sileo’s high school days at Wantagh. The Warriors were one of New York’s best teams, but they lost in the Nassau County finals to perennial power Garden City every year.
Sileo, a senior, already has more career assists (280) than any player in in any division in NCAA history.
But those years also were essential in honing Sileo’s vision. When she arrived on varsity, the Warriors already had a scorer, Claire Petersen, who went on to star at Adelphi and Stony Brook and held the NCAA Division II scoring record before Sileo. (“She texted and congratulated me on it,” Sileo
74 LACROSSE MAGAZINE February 2014 >> A Publication of US Lacrosse
©SCOTT MCCALL (JS)
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