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Athletes of the Week March 24

March 24, 2017

Victoria Lockwood

“Legit for Lockwood!” It’s an isolation play that comes from up top that brings Victoria, a junior midfielder, right down Broadway. She can shoot with either hand. Victoria runs on a midfield line that includes Katie Klabe, Mallory Jones and sometimes Jackie Cannon. The other midfield is Alia Marshall, Anna Stancofski and Eddy Shoop. That is speed like a NASCAR garage. “I feel more confident and definitely faster this year,” Victoria said. Lockwood had a “Legit for Lockwood” goal versus Dover, but 14 of the 19 goals were scored by attackers. “I’m definitely a lax-first, then hockey,” Victoria said. Older sister Kirstin is president of the UD club lacrosse team, where sister Elizabeth also plays. Younger sister Meredith is on the JV hockey and lacrosse teams, and ran track. Victoria takes honors and AP courses.

Melanie McCloy

Mel is a junior athlete who plays field hockey, basketball and tennis, and dances five nights a week for two hours at a time. She is ranked third in her class with a 105 GPA  and had 1490 out of 1600 on her SAT scores. Playing third singles March 22, she recorded the only Cape win versus powerhouse Caesar Rodney, splitting the first two sets against Liza Arefyeva 6-3, 4-6 before winning in a tiebreaker 10-7. Mel won 10 games and 10 points of tiebreaker, and the rest of the Cape team won a total of three games. Since 2009, Cape had only won one match versus CR in girls’ tennis; that was Anna Steiner at second singles in 2015. Mel is the consummate team player in hockey and basketball. “I just go in and do my best,” she said with her easy smile. Mel plans to major in engineering. Her sister Marissa is a student at Lehigh University.

Chloe Schaeffer

Just a sophomore, Chloe is a double athlete, competing in field hockey and lacrosse with emphasis on lacrosse. Last spring, the Schaeffer family watched Chloe as a freshman starter on the varsity lacrosse team win a state championship with a 17-1 record, then her older brother Hunter was a sophomore midfielder on the Salisbury University team that won a Division III National Championship. Hunter forced a turnover on what looked like a one-on-none with the goalie to help preserve a 14-13 win over Tufts University. “I have more of a role this year than last, setting up behind the net looking for cutters, and I’m able to do more dodging,” Chloe said. Chloe had four goals and three assists in the 19-0 win over Dover.

Jaycob Trimmer

A 10th-grader starting on attack for the boys’ lacrosse team, Jaycob scored a hat trick in the team’s season-opening 16-6 win at Dover. “I play on the right side, and I’m better off the catch and shoot than on the dodge,” Jaycob said. Luke D‘Ambrogi and Greg Boyce, also sophomores, started on attack for the Dover game. Ethan Ghabra and Evan Gehman give the Vikings five sophomore attackers who are prime-time varsity players. “I’m on the A/B honor roll and take honors science and economics,” Trimmer said. “And I play soccer in the fall.” He continued, “The team is young on attack, and older and more experienced on defense.” Jaycob’s older sister Taylor was on Cape’s 2011 state championship field hockey team and recently graduated from Appalachian State in Boone, N.C.   

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