Freshman Casey Ryan has produced 25 goals this season for Bowdoin, the only team unbeaten in NESCAC play. (Bowdoin Athletics)
Brunswick, Maine, is 3,131 miles away from La Jolla, Calif. It is, perhaps, the longest journey any lacrosse player in the NCAA from the continental United States has to make to play for a team in the NESCAC.
Bowdoin's Casey Ryan does just that and, as a freshman, he has become the sort of multi-functional weapon that every offense needs.
Ryan has the sort of speed that kills opponents. Not literally and not even figuratively -- it saps their will to defend him. Even in high school at the The Bishop's School, it was apparent that Ryan was, physically, at another level.
But starting at attack wasn't always the plan.
