TITAN SPOTLIGHT
Seeing the SilverLining By NATHAN LARICCIA | SPORTS INFORMATION DIRECTOR
Lacrosse star stays Titan strong after season cut short
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enior Bria Braddock, the Westminster women’s lacrosse team’s career-leader in points and goals, is no stranger to playing through adversity. A serious car crash in the fall of 2018 left Bria with a torn hip labrum and a torn shoulder labrum, rotator cuff and capsule—and questions of whether her playing career was in jeopardy. Doctors recommended surgery, but she didn’t want to miss out on the upcoming 2019 spring season and put off the treatment to be part of the team she helped build since the start of the program in 2017. She had no idea that her painplagued junior campaign, during which she helped guide the Titans to their most 14 w w w.w e s t m i n s t e r. e d u
successful season ever, would be her last chance to win a Presidents’ Athletic Conference (PAC) Championship.
Even knowing what she would endure physically, Bria made a choice. She chose to play her junior year. Surgery could wait.
Bria dealt with her injuries simultaneously. The very least she could do, her doctors—and her physical therapist dad—told her, was to rest to minimize the pain and prevent further damage.
“Playing or not playing was never even a question to me,” Bria said. She fought through the pain of the season that ultimately proved to be a winning one. Westminster went on to win the
