For many years, spring was not a season to do boat work, but a season to watch my two daughters play lacrosse. Those daughters have grown into adult women and that season has passed, but I still catch high school lacrosse with the Wheaton High School (Maryland) girls team. Lacrosse in America has always been the sport of white suburbia but in Wheaton High School, most of the team is composed of immigrant teens (children of all those invisible workers that make Washington DC operate), many are picking up lacrosse sticks for the first time in freshman year. To them, this is a very alien sport that must be learned from the ground up. The games against those richer, whiter schools in North County can be very dispiriting blow outs. But the effort is always there, the competitive drive never wavers.
For some reason, Montgomery County Public Schools, decided to make a video featuring Wheaton High School Lacrosse. They could have featured one of the schools with a top notch record but someone decided they would feature a team with multiple nationalities, a team that, at times, features more enthusiasm than skill.
Go Wheaton Knights and Coach Lauren Z, Coach Kari Tracey!
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