A Deeper Appreciation For This Lacrosse Team

It was one of the bigger comments I received when I posted this week’s Wildcat of the Quarter Nominees. If you have not taken a look at the poll it is a pretty big runaway for Taylor Thornton. Hopefully the Tewaaraton Trophy committee gets to hear how much the Northwestern community really loves Thornton and everything she has done for the program, especially this year. We would really like them to reconsider giving it to Maryland’s Katie Schwarzmann.

Wildcat of the Quarter is going to remain an individual award, but several comments to that article urged me that the team deserves some praise as this team, probably more than any other in the Kelly Amonte Hill era, was much more than the sum of any individual parts. It was, in