Corey Lovrich

• Corey Lovrich, Jacksonville University Lacrosse, Captain 2011

• Hard working, great smile, outgoing, a guy everyone wanted to be around on and off the field

• Recruited by Syracuse 

  • 10 NCAA Titles (Duke Basketball or Alabama Football)

• Tore his ACL Sr. year of HS in Long Island, NY on Long Beach

• Decided to attend school and play lacrosse at JU

• A guy everyone respected on the field and wanted to be around off the field

• Rehabbed like crazy and was a starter in our first game vs. UNC

  • 6K fans

  • In first ever D-1 game in Florida, lost to perennial power UNC 11-6

• By the next year he earned captain status as a sophomore

• Someone who figured out the need to go hard everyday (Win The Day)

• In our third game that year, 2011, we were playing away in Maryland vs. Mt St. Mary’s

  • Corey was carted off the field with what we all thought was another knee injury

• Instead, he was having trouble going to the bathroom for a couple days and was diagnosed with colon cancer at the hospital

• We all visited him in the hospital and his room was littered with cards and flowers

  • Corey touched so many lives

• He left JU to go back home to Long Island in an attempt to get better and be with his family

• Corey came out to our game in Everbank Stadium the next year, 2012

  • He was in remission and he was plotting his return back to JU beginning with strength and conditioning

• No doubt his presence and energy on the sideline propelled us to victory against Navy, 12-7

  • Lovey was smiling ear to ear all weekend

• It was great having him that weekend, going out, dinner, the works

  • He was one of the boys

  • Hadn’t lost a step

• Later that summer his cancer reappeared

• He died shortly thereafter in June of 2012

• Corey taught me to live everyday like it was my last

  • He made the world a better place everyday

• Win The Day

  • Something I wear everyday on both of my wrists

  • He was always with his family and teammates

• We incorporate this at Villages Lacrosse Club and Nease High School

  • Told the players this story

  • We have a practice player of the day, PPOD, everyday

  • They earn the right to wear the bracelet as a necklace to school that day

• Win The Day, 88!