Players and coach talk about how they're preparing to make it happen
By Alicia Nieves (SYRACUSE, NY) Only four weeks into practice, each player on the Syracuse University Men's Lacrosse team, has his mind fixated on winning the 2014 championship.
"We don't really care who's starting as long as we get that championship," Junior goalie, Dominic Lamolinara, said. That was the sentiment from most players and Coach Desko on Media Day.
How is this year going to be different?
" I think the glaring one [issue last year] was face-offs,"Desko said, echoing what most anyone who watched the team in the 2013 NCAA title match."I thought everything else went well, in all aspects of the game. I thought we were efficient. We came out on top are most of our [games]. We had ten one-goal games last year."
Desko says the strategy this year is simple - work on face-offs. "[We've] done more face-offs this year already, then we've probably did all of last year."
Old players out/ new ones in
With players including Brian Megill, JoJo Marasco, and Luke Cometti gone, the team has big gaps to fill. Lamolinara said Megill was like another coach on the field, and with Megill gone he will have to step up, " and pick up the slack."
Coach Desko said he is tackling the challenge of bring in a bunch of younger players. "Younger players don't know the system yet," he said and most of fall practice will be an opportunity for them to get familiar with it, possibly solidifying a spot for them in the spring.
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