told his three kids what his strong hand is (clearly he’s not Canadian). But Amanda, Stephen and Brian probably have a good chance of answering the question for themselves. All three, just like their father, played college lacrosse — Amanda at his alma mater Wesleyan, Stephen at Rutgers and Brian at Trinity College. Elder sister is now in her second season at head coach of the Holy Cross women’s team. When it comes to the Belichicks, it could be argued that passion for lacrosse runs just as deep as football and, at the very least, intertwines a ton. Bill’s father, Steve, was an assistant football coach at the Naval Academy in Annapolis, 1H [LIVI ]SYRK &MPP Á VWX TMGOIH YT E stick and went to every college lacrosse game he could as a teenager in the ÿćĄþW WSQIXMQIW LSTTMRK XLI JIRGI EX Homewood Field. Stephen and Brian are now on the Patriots staff, but so is former Johns Hopkins and current Boston 'ERRSRW PSRK WXMGO QMHÁ IPHIV 1MOI Pellegrino, who landed an initial summer internship with New England prior to his senior year with the Blue Jays. How’d that happen? A friendship between Johns Hopkins lacrosse coach Dave Pietramala and Belichick, of course. That relationship began in the
unlikeliest of ways, but in the close-knit lacrosse world, maybe not: A friend of Amanda’s was a student trainer with the Blue Jays. “Really, I met him through her,” Belichick told Baltimore’s Press &S\ QEKE^MRI MR Āþÿÿ ERH XLI Á VWX conversation between the two coaches lasted more than hour. They’ve talked plenty since, through KSSH XMQIW PMOI XLI &PYI .E]W¸ Āþþą 2'%% title run and bad, such as when freshman Jeremy Huber died of complications of TRIYQSRME ERH XLI Â Y SR XLI IZI SJ XLI Āþÿă WIEWSR “He’s a great friend,” Pietramala said
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I’ve told [Rabil] this many times: We’re always looking for a strong safety. He’s got the size, the speed, the toughness that every year I look in the draft, and I don’t see anybody that has the physical attributes that he would have to be a safety. When he was coming out of Hopkins, he was like, “I want to give football a try.” I said, “Paul, you’re the face of lacrosse. You are the biggest lacrosse player in the world. You can’t play football.” He’s like, “Yeah, I guess you’re right.”
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Ask Belichick about that lacrosse- football connection, though, and the famous coach makes like a reporter just asked him about an injury status: “With Yeatman and Hogan, it’s more coincidental. I don’t think that had a lot to do with how that worked out.” But for a guy who usually doesn’t like to talk to the media, Belichick sure had plenty to say about his love of lacrosse to Carcaterra in a video interview that made the mainstream television and Internet rounds, with the help of a certain tongue- in-cheek comment about another future Hall of Famer toward the end. USL
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