Junior Finley Reid is a swing goalie, starting on the Jefferson girls junior varsity team and backing up the varsity. He was first-team NJAC-United as a senior last spring. Payton Reid, the eldest, was a defender starting in fifth or sixth grade. All five of his kids are involved in the sport. Reid is Jefferson High School's first boys lacrosse coach, and has led the team since 2009. He also started pushing to get lacrosse added to the high school roster, which happened two years later - boys and girls teams. He launched a youth team in the township with sixth, seventh and eighth graders. Reid tried it for the first time when he went back to Montclair State University for a physical education degree, and loved it almost immediately. He hadn't played the game when he was in high school there. Their father, Scott Reid, brought lacrosse to Jefferson 26 years ago. "It was eight years of built up energy and adrenaline," said Chubb Reid, noting he doesn't really answer to his given name. Calen, aka Chubb, starts at attack.Ĭhubb – the nickname originated because he was born seven pounds and eight ounces, a minute after six pound, three ounce Jamison – has been around the Jefferson High School team for most of his life, so involved that one year the Falcons' plays were all named in his honor: Chubb, Chubby, Chubster, etc. Jamison, known as J-Mo, is the starting goalie. That's the song blaring over the loudspeakers every time the Jefferson boys lacrosse team runs onto the field to start warmups.Įven though Reid has heard it almost daily for years, the song means something a little different this spring.Ĭalen and his identical twin brother Jamison Reid are freshmen on the Falcons varsity. View Gallery: NJ boys lacrosse: Jefferson High Point/Wallkill Valley NJILL Pooley PhotosĪC/DC's "Thunderstruck" gives Calen Reid goosebumps.
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