By Jack Spader

There are always athletes who stand out. Lianne Valdivia is one of those athletes. When she is out on the field, outrunning her opponents or finding an opening in the net, it doesn’t take a seasoned lacrosse player to see her ability. Only in her second year at SUNY New Paltz, she already holds the record for the most goals scored in a season. For a girl with so much talent and skill, Many people assumed that she had been playing her whole life. Wrong. It has only been six years since the first time she picked up a lacrosse stick.
In the 2012 season, Valdivia won the team award of lead scorer. She had not originally been going for the award until, halfway through the season, one of her teammates told her that she was the runner-up. Then Valdivia set her sights on being the lead scorer. She went further, setting a school record with 38 goals for the season.
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