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.@HEADstrongFnd Attack Cancer squad wins championship at Lake Placid Summit and raises over $46,000

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Phillylacrosse.com, Posted 8/3/23

Team Attack won the High School Summit Division championship at the Lake Placid Summit (N.Y.) by going 5-0, capped by a 9-5 win over Team 91 LI 2024 Wolfpack in the title game.

Team Attack featured a number of Philly players, including Malvern Prep’s Lucca, Peri, and Roman DiBartolomeo, Brennan Krause, and Ryan Traynor, Springside Chestnut Hill’s Ross Prince and Hayes Schreiner, Lower Merion’s Aidan Friedman (team associate and intern for HEADstrong), and Haverford School’s Ben McCarthy.

HEADstrong created the Attack Cancer team to help raise fundraising efforts for the Foundation. Each player raised $300 or more to be a part of the team and players from multiple states in the class of 2024 then competed in the tournament this week and won the championship. In all, the squad raised over $46,000 for the Foundation.

“The experience at Lake Placid was a great time,” said 2024 LSM Lucca DiBartolomeo, a cancer survivor and USA Lacrosse All-American for the Inter-Ac Tournament champion Friars. “The amazing town and spending time with my teammates was awesome.

“We were playing for Ryan Mackey a younger lacrosse player that is battling cancer. As a team, we wanted to win this tournament for him. We knew this would bring him good spirits We all signed a headstrong helmet and jerseys that we are going to give to him. We were playing for him and the HEADstrong founder Nick Colleluori. Knowing this really always fueled our team on the field after each huddle together chanting ’27’ which was Nick’s number.”
The Philly contingent who helped the HEADstrong Foundation team, Attack Cancer, claim the high school division championship at The Lake Placid Summit this week. The team won, beating 91 Wolfpack, and raised over $46 thousand for the Foundation. In the photo from left: Roman DiBartolomeo (Malvern Prep), Brennan Krause (Malvern Prep), Ryan Traynor (Malvern Prep), Ross Prince (Springside CHA), Lucca DiBartolomeo (Malvern Prep), Aidan Friedman (Lower Merion, team associate and intern for HEADstrong), Ben McCarthy (Haverford School.), Hayes Schreiner (Springside CHA), and Peri DiBartolomeo. (Malvern Prep).