It’s one reason why winners won’t take weird selfies with
their Tewaaraton. In some photos from the ceremonies, you can see the strain in their faces as they hold it up. “I remember it being ridiculously heavy, and trying to hold it with one hand got tiring,” Stanwick said. At 5-foot-4, Caitlyn McFadden, the
2010 Tewaaraton Award winner at Maryland, had to contort her body so the trophy would not obscure her face. She dropped her arms as low as she could. After a minute or so of holding it that way, she started to feel just how heavy it really was. She then had the trophy shipped home, and thus avoided the whole buckling-it-into- the-seat thing.
WHO WILL WIN IT?
And while it typically ends up back home, the trophy sometimes makes a campus detour. Stanwick took his out when Virginia’s 2011 NCAA championship team was honored in 2012. Former Cavalier Amy Appelt’s trophy still resides in the coach’s office in Charlottesville, where she earned the 2004 award. “Without them and the 25 others around me, I would have never won. So it hangs out in their office,” said Appelt, now the co-coach at UMBC. It was in the Cornell coach’s office that Pannell first felt the weight of the Tewaaraton. Seibald kept his trophy there. Four years later, Pannell added to the Big Red collection.
The 2014 Tewaaraton Award race will come down to the wire. Last year, Albany’s Lyle Thompson became the first Native American finalist for the Native American-inspired award. The frontrunner for the award this year, Thompson likely will face a serious challenge from his brother, Albany’s Miles Thompson, and fellow 2013 finalist Tom Schreiber of Princeton. Lyle and Miles Thompson ranked No. 1 and No. 2 in the nation in scoring, respectively, at press time. Schreiber was the nation’s top- scoring midfielder. On the women’s side, Florida’s Shannon Gilroy nearly single- handedly kept the Gators in the NCAA championship conversation despite graduating a massive, history-making senior class in 2013. She led the nation in scoring at press time, with Syracuse’s Kayla Treanor and Johns Hopkins’ Taylor D’Amore on her heels. Visit
LaxMagazine.com for coverage of the Tewaaraton Award Ceremony on May 30.
Chrest Erbe won the Tewaaraton as a junior and kept it in her trophy
room in Durham as motivation for her senior season. That is, until her Blue Devil teammates made her move it to a more prominent place in the house to celebrate the 2005 team. Eventually, Chrest Erbe’s trophy found its way into another celebration: her wedding. She hung her
jewelry and rings from it as she got ready. “Lacrosse was a big part of life. It should be included in my big day,” she said. The Tewaaraton Award will continue to be a big part of big days for years to come. But these actually are stories of the replica trophies. The original resides permanently in a case at the University Club in Washington, D.C., and comes out only during the ceremony to have the newest names added to its base. The ceremony instills an appreciation for
the Tewaaraton’s deeper meaning. It includes a Native American blessing and presentation of the Tewaaraton Legends snd Spirit of Tewaaraton honors. The award is endorsed by the Mohawk Nation Council of Elders and US Lacrosse, which in 2011 entered into a long-term partnership with the Tewaaraton Foundation. Each year, US Lacrosse awards two $5,000 scholarships to high school seniors of Native American descent. “One of the best things about the Tewaaraton is how the foundation makes it into such a high class, amazing event,” McFadden said. “This event is so special and truly honors the game and its creators.” The Tewaaraton Foundation shows its winner respect. Without exception, the winners return that respect right back. LM
The Tewaaraton Award ceremony honors lacrosse’s origin with a traditional Native American blessing.
A Publication of US Lacrosse
June 2014 >> LACROSSE MAGAZINE 35
©GREG WALL (LT); ©ANNE RYAN (SG); ©JOHN STROHSACKER
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