Bob Chavez, NLLInsider.com
One of the biggest questions of this National Lacrosse League offseason has been Cody Jamieson. Will he or won’t he? Well, it’s looking more and more like he will … go back to school at Syracuse University. The talent-rich attackman, who scored the overtime winner for Syracuse in the NCAA Division I championship game and would most certainly have been the No. 1 overall draft pick in the Sept. 9 NLL draft, apparently is forgoing a pro career for now and opting for school. “Cody has decided to return to Syracuse,” Lewis Staats, president of the Rochester Knighthawks told Rochester’s Democrat and Chroniclein Thursday’s editions. Why?
“He’s a symbol for young people at Six Nations,” Staats told the newspaper. “He wants to be the first product of our lacrosse program to graduate from a four-year Division I school.”
Without a doubt, that’s important for Jamieson and he knows what kind of example he’s setting. He admits he took the torch from Marshall Abrams, the defenseman out of Onondaga who starred for the SU teams in the late 1990s, and Jamieson wears No. 43 on his jersey to honor Abrams. And as well as he understands how to score goals, Jamieson knows too how important it is to set goals in life and how important his actions are to the many kids at Six Nations who look to him as a role model.
