Four locals named to national U19 women's lax team
Notre Dame Prep's Covie Stanwick, McDonogh's Jen Cook, C. Milton Wright's Alyssa Blevins and Winters Mill's Erin McMunn were named to the final United States Under-19 women's lacrosse team that will compete for the World Championship this summer in Germany.
Coaches whittled the team from 24 to 18 players after games last weekend in Florida. Coach Krystin Porcella, also the coach at John Carroll, said it came down to the wire for every girl on the team.
Stanwick, an All-Metro attacker, is the fourth member of her family to be named to a U.S. national team. Her oldest sister Sheehan played on the U.S. elite national team, while Coco Stanwick captained the gold-medal winning Under-19 team in 2003. Both women were All-Metro attackers at Notre Dame Prep and played at Georgetown. Brother Steele, a Virginia junior and The Sun's All-Metro Player of the Year as a junior, was named to the Under-19 men's team in 2008 but was injured and unable to play.
The team includes six players from Maryland with Good Counsel's Caileigh Sindall and Brigid Smith also making the cut. New York also has six players.
The United States women's Under-19 team has won the last three world championships and has won all 20 games since falling to Australia in the 1995 final.
The team will play in the US Lacrosse Women's National Tournament May 28 and 29 at Stony Brook and will defend its title at the Federation of International Lacrosse Under-19 World Championship Aug. 3 to 14 in Hannover, Germany.
