GFS lacrosse captains honored with U.S. Lacrosse All-Academic Awards

Posted 6/4/18

GFS senior lacrosse captains Corin Grady (left) and Celia Meyer stand in front of a poster honoring their achievements. The two were recently named All-Academic players by U.S. Lacrosse. (Photo by …

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GFS lacrosse captains honored with U.S. Lacrosse All-Academic Awards

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GFS senior lacrosse captains Corin Grady (left) and Celia Meyer stand in front of a poster honoring their achievements. The two were recently named All-Academic players by U.S. Lacrosse. (Photo by Alec Kostival)

by Alec Kostival

The U.S. Lacrosse Award Handbook describes an All-Academic player as “one who exhibits exemplary lacrosse skills, good sportsmanship on the field and represents high standards of academic achievement in the classroom.”

Both Corin Grady and Celia Meyer of Germantown Friends High School have received this honor for the second year in a row.

The award is only given out to one junior or senior athlete per six area U.S. Lacrosse coaches. The athletes in question much attain a 3.7 GPA or higher on the 4.0 scale in order to qualify for the award.

Grady and Meyer are both graduating senior lacrosse captains that have left their mark on the lacrosse field for the GFS Tigers. Grady ended the season with the most saves in school history with 557. She has started in goal for the Tigers since freshman year.

Grady underplayed her school record to the circumstances that allowed her to start freshman year. “If there was a goalie a couple of years before me, then I wouldn’t have started,” she said. Since no one was in front of me, I got to have all those starts and get all those games in. That’s just lucky. I just tried to save as many as I could each game.”

Grady has been playing lacrosse since second grade. She was also a captain for the GFS girl’s basketball team. She has received Friends League All-League awards for lacrosse and cross country.

She will be attending and playing lacrosse for Wesleyan University in the fall. She’s thinking about starting on the pre-med track, but currently remains undecided. Grady is also thinking about minoring in religious studies.

“She can clear it wherever,” said fellow lacrosse captain Lindsey Golden of Grady. “She can hit you on the spot. She’s fun to talk to once you go into you circle. She’s composed.”

Celia Meyer has played lacrosse since she was six years old. She played all four years of high school at the varsity level. After freshman year, she moved from attacker to midfielder and racked up 176 goals in the process.

She received All-League honorable mention for soccer, taking home the MVP award her senior year. In the fall, she will be attending Colgate University, playing lacrosse in the D1 Patriot League. She does not yet know what she is going to study.

“There’s something about Celia that’s very inspiring, in that someone can be all these things,” said GFS lacrosse manager Maddie Figueredo. “To be this incredible lacrosse player that people from other schools walk on the field and go, ‘Oh I know her, that’s Celia.’”

“I’ve never been alone in receiving awards,” Meyer said. “It’s me and Corin, which is great. I think that we’ve both progressed together over the years because we’ve been playing together for so long. We put so much time into school as well as sports. We both really value school over sports.”

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