‘It Shows That Anything Is Possible’: Kayla Wood On Athletes Unlimited Lacrosse

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August 13, 2021 astatine 11:38 am

(CBS Local Sports)– The 4th play of Athletes Unlimited Lacrosse begins Friday, August 13 and defender Kayla Wood has separated herself arsenic 1 of the champion players successful the league. The erstwhile University of North Carolina astatine Chapel Hill prima is 2nd successful the league successful points and that means she is 1 of the captains for this weekend’s games. Players person points based connected idiosyncratic and squad show and Wood has garnered the bulk of her points from being connected winning teams successful the archetypal 3 weeks.

CBS Local’s DJ Sixsmith precocious caught up with Wood to sermon the caller nonrecreational women’s lacrosse league, the keys to Wood’s occurrence connected the tract truthful acold and what she has learned from immoderate of the older women successful the league. Athletes Unlimited Lacrosse returns to CBS Sports Network Friday nighttime astatine 5pm EST/PST.

“I’m playing with immoderate of the champion players that I ne'er thought I would person the accidental to play with oregon against,” said Wood. “It’s been truly chill to spot however dynamic they are and truly conscionable acquisition their talents firsthand and getting to cognize them arsenic radical has been truly awesome, too. It’s chill to beryllium wherever I americium at. It’s been chill to beryllium a defender and beryllium among the apical players. That’s thing I’ve thought was truthful surprising. I bash immoderate it takes for my squad to win. You tin get each these points, but astatine the extremity of the time if your squad doesn’t win, your points are inactive worthy a batch but they are not worthy arsenic overmuch arsenic the squad points. From crippled to game, I judge a antithetic relation if I person to due to the fact that I’m flexible and volition bash immoderate it takes for america to get those triumph points.”

Team Wood battles Team Arsenault successful the archetypal of 2 games Friday nighttime of Athletes Unlimited Lacrosse. Each week, the apical 4 leaders successful points get to draught their teams and each subordinate successful the league is playing to enactment a origin they attraction about. Wood is playing for Harlem Lacrosse, which is an enactment that changes the beingness trajectories of kids done lacrosse and assemblage counseling. Wood says this has been 1 of the astir enjoyable experiences of her lacrosse vocation and she’s besides arrogant to beryllium utilizing her level for change.

“It’s unthinkable and astir of these girls are relation models that we each person looked up to,” said Wood. “It’s conscionable truthful astonishing to spot radical retired present who person kids. It benignant of conscionable shows that thing is possible. It’s truly admirable due to the fact that it doesn’t substance however galore kids you person oregon however aged you are, you are inactive capable to beryllium present and execute each these brainsick things. It’s been specified a whirlwind of emotions.”

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“It’s conscionable been truthful awesome. I can’t adjacent enactment into words however astonishing it has been to beryllium here,” said Wood. “I look up to truthful galore of these players successful truthful galore ways. It’s conscionable been truthful chill to beryllium capable to play by their broadside and larn caller things from them.”