
With 23 seconds left in the first half of her team’s Women’s World Championship opener against Korea on Thursday, Abby Stoller (Wayland, Mass.) took a free position shot and buried it, putting Team Israel ahead by seven at halftime in a game it would go on to win, 18-6.
Not that it was her biggest achievement this year. Far from it.
Stoller is one of a handful of women from the region whose bloodlines made them eligible to try out for some of the 30 national teams competing at the World Championship, most of which don’t have a lacrosse infrastructure like there is in the U.S.
After starring at Wayland High School and then playing sparingly at UMass, Stoller played this past spring at Division 3 Simmons as a grad transfer. She and her sister, Jackie, both made the Israel team.