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>> WHAT I DO How Team USA and BC midfi elder
Mikaela Rix gets ahead on the draw
It’s really such an amazing honor to be on Team USA. Since I got to play on the U19 team [in 2011], I know what it feels like to wear the jersey. But playing with the senior national team is something that I’ve really dreamed about. I’m really excited to play with Kayla Treanor, Kelly McPartland, Cortney Fortunato and Erin McMunn, who were all on the U19 team with me.
We were so close to beating UNC, Maryland and Syracuse. Being an upperclassman and being able to really teach the younger girls to have a cohesive team was awesome. For us, it was the fi rst time we ever won an NCAA game and we won two. We made it to the elite eight and lost by two to Syracuse. As much as everyone hates losing, we had a phenomenal year.
STICK TO ROUTINE
I always wear the same socks, spandex and sports bra. I always wash them, obviously, but I always wear the same ones. I guess you could say I’m superstitious, but that’s just always my routine. I also always listen to “On Top of the World” by Imagine Dragons and “Waka Waka” by Shakira as my last two songs before I go out to the fi eld. Otherwise, before Saturday home games, we go to Finagle a Bagel as a pregame meal and then to
Sandwich Works before weekday games at home.
pushing, which means we are both going with our right hand.
Both of us are
MY HOME AWAY FROM HOME
BC is an amazing school. I get the chills every time I talk about it because I actually had the opportunity to be an orientation leader last summer. I really learned a lot more about the school and everything it has to offer. Everybody is there to make everybody better. As much as we’re competitors, everyone makes you feel at home.
MY BEANTOWN
I’m defi nitely a New Yorker at heart (from Garden City, N.Y.), but Boston is a great college town. I have a couple friends at Harvard and I’ll go see them on the weekends. We have the North End for great Italian food on Newbury Street and awesome shopping. It’s really the perfect college town.
>> MY MAJOR
I’m a fi nance major in the Carroll School of Management, and I’m minoring in theology. After freshman year, I had a really great professor in my Intro to Business and Ethics class, Amy LaCombe. I’m actually going to be her teaching assistant next year. This summer, I have the opportunity to work at Morgan Stanley in sales and training. I absolutely love my job.
— compiled by Megan Schneider 54 LACROSSE MAGAZINE August 2014>>
Some people like to align both feet, but I like to keep my left foot forward because that’s the foot I push off with.
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