WASHPO:Lacrosse finds a new home at Ballou and two other D.C. public high schools

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With financial and athletic backgrounds that are similarly limited, Ballou players do not have amenities that those at other programs might consider necessities — footwear, for instance. Some players practice in boots because those were the shoes they wore to school that day.

So much of the sport is completely new to many of the Knights.

“I just knew that it was played with balls and sticks. That was it,” said sophomore Tayliyah Dixon. “This is the first time I’m playing with a team and sticking with it. I need to learn how not to give up.”

The ease with which lacrosse players are accustomed to cradling and passing the ball are still new to some of the Knights. So, too, is the running.

“You may be in pain, but it’s fun. It’s a workout,” said sophomore Regina Hawkins, one of the most dedicated players on the team. “It makes me want to do what [McGarvie] did. She’s a role model. It makes you want to have a better future than what you have now by using lacrosse.”