Roughly 3,437 miles separate Guildford, England, the hometown of Harry Cooksley, and the unforgiving goalposts of Belson Stadium on the Queens, NY campus of St. John’s University.
If it were up to junior midfielder he would line it up from there, as calmly and as confidently as ever, and have a go at the back of those nets without hesitation.
That’s just the type of player that Cooksley, the reigning BIG EAST Player of the Week, is. That guile was on display last week against Butler, when he cut through multiple defensemen and rifled a shot past the goalkeeper to give the Red Storm a decisive 2-1 lead in the 86th minute.