Syracuse, N.Y. -- She had all those years of dreaming about playing for the Syracuse women's lacrosse program, and yet Mackenzie Baker still somehow overlooked a vital detail of preparation.
Autographs.
She never practiced signing her name for the adulation that would inevitably come with life as a freshman attack for the Orange.
And if anyone should have known better, it's Baker. Growing up in Camillus, Baker plastered her bedroom wall with autographed team posters of the Orange women.
Even after she committed to SU while as a freshman at West Genesee, Baker still went to team signing events and gathered the scribbles of players who in a year or two would be her teammates.