Much like leaves changing colors in the fall, the same holds true with lacrosse colors in the Kelly family tree. Calvert Hall red is followed by North Carolina blue.
It started when Calvert Hall coach Bryan Kelly followed his older brother David to Chapel Hill in the late 1980s. In this generation of Kelly standout lacrosse players — the sons of Bryan, David and Frank, who played his college ball at Cornell — there’s been at least one Kelly on the North Carolina roster via Calvert Hall since 2011. That’s five in all from Frankie (2011-12) to Patrick (2013-15) to Stephen (2015-17) to Timmy (2017-19) and now Bryan’s oldest son, Jacob, a sophomore.