Goal GETTER
Millon finally stepped on a lacrosse field as a freshman at Fallston High. She was a natural. The path to lacrosse success wasn’t laid out to everyone at the time, but Millon saw the steps clearly and immediately: Make varsity as a sophomore. Become a starter. Play at Maryland. Win a world championship.
Millon left the horses behind and achieved all that and then some. On her way up, she laid down tracks on her trail, and made it a little easier for today’s players to follow. The plan never really changed. Millon was always going to play for Maryland, but she didn’t get in. At least, she thought she didn’t get in. Later, in College Park, Sue Tyler stopped her in the hallway.
“‘Whatever happened to you back in 86?’” Millon recalled the legendary Maryland coach saying. “Just an off-hand conversation. ‘I was getting you in.’” But Millon had already opted to attend Essex Community College, where she would play three sports and eventually be named the junior college’s female athlete of the year. “I wouldn’t have traded it for the world,” Millon said. “I knew ultimately that I was going to be a Terp. I could have left after the first year, but it was a tremendous sort of environment. There was so much support for women’s sports there.” The JuCo-to-D-I path is common today in the men’s game, with players like Cody Jamieson, Randy Staats, Brett Queener and the like making the leap in recent years. But it’s less prevalent on the women’s side. Back then, Millon said, it was what you did if you wanted to end up at a top program. After Essex, Millon was an All-American at Maryland. She helped lead the Terps to the 1990 NCAA championship game. The next goal was to win a World Cup, which she did. Twice. “It was like well, you know, this is going to come around in four years, I think I’m going to have to do it again,” Millon said. With that, Millon met all of her goals. She never saw the Hall of Fame at the end of the trail.
MILLON PLAYED HER WAY TO THE TOP — FROM JUNIOR COLLEGE TO MARYLAND TO TWO U.S. WORLD CUP TEAMS.
56 LACROSSE MAGAZINE » october 2014 A Publication of US Lacrosse
Wild horses couldn’t drag Erin Brown Millon away from her lacrosse dreams BY MARK MACYK
Erin Brown Millon used to ride horses. That was what you did in Harford County, Md., back then, back before every girl in the state of Maryland grew up with a lacrosse stick in her hands.
“I don’t even know how to wrap my head fully around it,” Millon said. “It’s so overwhelming and awesome.”
Millon continued to play into her 40s, mixing it up with players half her age who had learned the game as youths playing at camps Millon taught. She continued to give back through volunteerism, coaching and on the business side with lacrosse manufacturers.
As US Lacrosse’s first women’s
game director, Millon presided over an unprecedented level of growth, overseeing the development of national tournaments for youth players and the formation of the U19 team.
Erin Brown Millon Maryland
Team USA
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