BRYN EVANS St. Ignatius - S.F. —
Lacrosse — Senior Playing for the top program on the West Coast, Evans was an All -
American attacker who Laxrecords.com named National
Player of the Week honors in late April after Evans delivered a stellar string of games on the East Coast.
The speed and spontaneity of
lacrosse may initially draw kids in, but many become more absorbed after they learn of its Native
American provenance: that it was considered a gift of the Creator, whom you played to please; that it was used to settle disputes between tribes and to help assure a good harvest; that to give a
player the ability to strike suddenly, an elder might scratch him with rattlesnake fangs or smear him with ash from a tree struck by lightning; that even today, when an Iroquois
player dies, he is buried with his stick.