By James Joseph
WSL Senior Features Writer

Lilia Lee always picked up any sport she tried rather easily – from volleyball to soccer to basketball.

But when she first gave lacrosse a shot in her sophomore year at Pacific University after meeting Boxers’ head coach Wynne Lobel, she struggled.

“I can remember specifically, I had met Wynne and she had offered to throw around with me, and just catching and throwing the ball was so hard and foreign,” said Lee, who grew up in Waimanalo, on the Hawaiian island of Oahu, knowing little about lacrosse.