Just a few games into the 2006 lacrosse season, Bonanza head coach Gary Campo had a pretty good idea that he had something special in then-freshman goalie Matt Sathrum.
“You would have expected a timid kid in the cage,” Campo said. “And he got in the huddle screaming his head off like a four-year seasoned senior – ‘Let’s do this, let’s do that.’ And at that point, we knew we had something.”
Indeed, Bonanza did. Sathrum started every game during his four years at Bonanza and, according to Campo, rarely, if ever, missed a practice. For four seasons, Sathrum was the backbone of the Bengals’ defense and the team’s emotional leader.
By James Joseph