Feature: Dykstra left quite a legacy at Lehigh
6/20/2011 5:16:00 PM | Women's Lacrosse
By: Joe Martino, Daily Record Staff Writer
Lauren Dykstra didn't grow up playing lacrosse. She didn't even pick up a stick until her freshman year of high school. Soccer and basketball were her true loves, and she played a little bit of softball too.
“I didn't know much about the game but the kids said it was fun to play,” Dykstra told the Daily Record in 2007.
Seven years after picking up a stick, Dykstra, a recently graduated Lehigh midfielder, capped off a historic collegiate career by earning MVP honors of the Intercollegiate Women's Lacrosse Coaches Association (IWLCA) North-South Senior All-Star Game played Saturday in Downingtown, Pa.
She scored a game-high three goals to lead the South past the North, 8-6, in a game that featured senior student athletes from some of the nation's top programs, including Maryland, North Carolina, Louisville and Loyola.
It was the final competitive lacrosse game Dykstra played, and what a way to go out for the 2007 Daily Record Girls Lacrosse Player of the Year from humble beginnings, who eventually guided Mendham to three consecutive Morris County Tournament titles and the program's first appearance in the NJSIAA Tournament of Champions final.
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