Fulfilling Peter Thompson's wildest dreams, last weekend really happened.
An Ann Arbor native, Thompson was born in University of Michigan's Mott Children's hospital; it's the building adjacent to where his father, Byron, has worked for more than two decades as a neurosurgeon in the university hospital system.
Thompson's four older siblings all competed in collegiate athletics; his brother Bart rowed and was on the club lacrosse team at Stanford, and his three sisters — Kelsey (Northwestern, 2014), Molly (Georgetown, 2017), and Tess (Yale, 2018) — played field hockey.
In Thompson's fantastic finish Sunday in Ithaca, New York, he combined his hometown roots and his athletic genes for the memory of a lifetime: After spending four years at Georgetown, he transferred to his hometown school and scored the first hat-trick of his collegiate career, then added a fourth goal — the winner in the opening round of the NCAA tournament, to propel Michigan lacrosse to a 15-14 overtime victory over No.