November 18, 2015
Jeremy Triplett, who played football, baseball, along with cross country running track in high school at Chicago’s De La Salle Institute said that those sports helped him to rapidly learn how to play lacrosse.
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Chicago Native Captains Only HBCU Division I Lacrosse Team
The upcoming 2016 season will be the first for Hampton University’s lacrosse team as a member of the NCAA Division I tier. The team that initially started out as a club team, will be captained by a native of Chicago’s Hyde Park neighborhood. Midfielder Jeremy Triplett, a senior and marketing major, had never heard of lacrosse, despite attending college in a part of the country where the sports in prevalent.