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Postcards: The End of My Lacrosse Career

Postcards: The End of My Lacrosse Career

I was okay at lacrosse. My final game was pretty good though. Also, let's talk about the week ahead, and what it means for investors.

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Garrett Baldwin
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Dear Fellow Expat:

Scott knew I wasn’t doing well.

At halftime, he walked up to me and asked what was wrong.

“Well, I don’t know if you noticed,” I said, “but I’m getting lit up by a bunch of girls.”

It was fall 2002 – and I was playing goalie in a morning scrimmage for the Northwestern Women’s Lacrosse team.

We were “Team USA.”

Team “Red, White, and Blue” had taken six shots in the first half.

And all six went into the goal.

I was the goalie.

Scott Hiller was the husband of the NU head coach, Kelly Amonte Hiller.

She’d won two national championships at the University of Maryland as a player. She’s coached the NU Women’s team to eight national championships. Before they won the title in 2005, Northwestern hadn’t won an NCAA title since 1941, when they won the national championship in football.

Brian was a fantastic player as well. He’d played at the University of Massachusetts–Amherst and coached the Baltimore Bayhawks. He coached at Harvard and won the 1994 World Lacrosse Championship as a m…

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