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Loyola’s Lazzaretto ready for bigger challenge

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The Atlantic Coast Conference is the pinnacle of women’s collegiate lacrosse. An ACC program has played for the national title in each of the last eight seasons and last year’s final Inside Lacrosse national rankings had five ACC teams among the top-10 at the end of the season.

So to get a chance to play in the nation’s top conference is an opportunity that would be to say no to. Loyola Academy junior Ellie Lazzaretto couldn’t pass it up, which is why on Jan. 22, the Lake Forest resident announced her commitment to play at Duke University starting in the fall of 2021.

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Scherb ready to make Jumbo freshman impact at Tufts

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Four years ago, the New Trier boys lacrosse program saw one if its best players, Ben Connelly, graduate and head east to play at Tufts University. That following season, a
new No. 32 (Connelly’s New Trier jersey number) arrived on campus — freshman Henry Scherb. Fast forward four years and Scherb will once again be following in Connelly’s footsteps, as he goes to Massachusetts to play for the Jumbos starting in the fall.

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Loyola girls lax team finds angel in Highland Park toddler

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Ask most people what makes being a member of the Loyola Academy community a great one and the majority will have a similar answer: family.

Whether it be with returning alumni, family, friends or the athletes following the school’s motto of being “Men and Women for Others,” there’s something that stands out about the school.

That was none more evident this spring when the Loyola girls lacrosse team embraced the presence of Ryan O’Connor, 3-year-old son of Loyola alumna, and a lacrosse All-American, Elizabeth O’Connor and her husband Ben.

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Holohan excited for new beginnings, challenges

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The recent Loyola graduate could have stayed in the Midwest and gone to Marquette, joining a handful of other North Shore players, or Colorado, the two other schools that
really recruited her, but she chose to go down a different path.

Brynn Holohan wanted to a new experience when it came to choosing where she’d play college lacrosse.

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NT grad Murray sets records at Stanford

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The sport of lacrosse has always been in Kelsey Murray’s blood. Whether it be through her mom, Kristen, a New Trier coach and three-time All-American in lacrosse, All-Ivy in lacrosse and field hockey and member of the school’s Hall of Fame or her younger sister Lucy, who is a rising junior at New Trier, she has been one with a stick in hand since a young age. Continue reading →

Enrietto’s recovery leads to big freshman season

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Katie Enrietto during Women’s Lacrosse action between Notre Dame vs Marquette University at Arlotta Stadium in South Bend, Indiana. Photo Credit: Mike Miller/Fighting Irish Media

Katie Enrietto had never faced an injury more serious than a sprained ankle, so when she tore her anterior cruciate ligament during her senior season at Loyola, ending her final girls lacrosse season, it was something the Winnetka resident had never experienced. Continue reading →