Maryland defenseman Nick Grill does not hold any ill will toward those schools that didn’t recruit him because he wasn’t the prototype coming out of high school, but he has used the slight for motivation.
Grill, a senior, was recently named the Big Ten Defensive Player of the Year after winning the league’s Defensive Player of the Week for an unprecedented three straight times during the regular season. The Whipsnakes Lacrosse Club selected Grill in the Premier Lacrosse League draft a week earlier.
That’s not too shabby for a kid who was considered too short and too small to play Division I lacrosse coming out of Bridgewater-Rartian High, in Bridgewater, New Jersey.