Lacrosse Stories

Vacaville senior athlete Brady Mott is driven towards the goals he’s had for a long time. Someday, Mott wants to be a pilot in the military, either the Air Force or Army. It’s something he grew up around, as his...

Family. Academics. Sports. That’s the way St. Ignatius senior lineman Zach Quilici’s family raised him. Prioritize family, then the academics, then sports, then everything else. Work as hard as you can to be successful and pursue your dreams. Whether that was...

Grinding for everything has always been the way for Sacred Heart Prep lacrosse junior Blake Hetherington and all of his friends. When Hetherington was in third grade, he had to decide between baseball and lacrosse because both were in the...

Benjamin Lee was fixated around sports from a young age, always involved in something. Flag football. Basketball. Lacrosse. Soccer. Whatever he could get his hands on, he was going to do. And with a father who went to Stanford and a...

De La Salle was talking about it all week. Neither of the last two senior classes were able to compete in a North Coast Section playoff because of COVID-19. The 2020 class lost most of its season, as the pandemic...

Redwood sophomore Jake Vasquez dares to dream of the impossible. He understands how difficult it is to play one sport at the next level, let alone multiple. The time commitment is that of a full-time job and then some. Wake...

The first trip to Duke was the seller for Sacred Heart Prep senior Max Sloat. He grew up watching Duke basketball. His dog’s name was Duke. So, it was only fate that this all happened, right? As Sloat toured Duke’s campus...

As time expired in Orinda, all one could see on the field was an eruption of sticks and masks into the cold May air as the Campolindo sideline rushed onto the field, jumping and shouting in excitement. It was a...

Granite Bay’s regular season was flawless in so many ways, but that was only a precursor of what was to follow. The Granite Bay boys lacrosse team (16-2) entered the North Coast Section Division I playoffs as a No. 3...

Queen’s “We Are The Champions” blared through the speakers. Senior Dennis Van Der Wal ran with the banner to midfield, teammates chasing him. The girls lacrosse team, which won a championship hours before, running towards them and taking a...