Tue Feb 2 2021 | Kenny DeJohn | College
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Zach Triner played lacrosse at Siena in 2011 before heading home to Division II Assumption College to play football.
Looking back, Zach Triner’s life would be very different if it weren’t for Brian Brecht.
Brecht, currently at Rutgers, was the head coach at Siena from 2007-11, the last of which was Triner’s freshman season as a faceoff specialist with a full lacrosse career ahead of him.
Brecht left for Rutgers after that 2011 season, prompting Triner to reflect on his own future.
“When Coach Brecht left, it just gave me the opportunity to re-evaluate my life,” Triner told US Lacrosse Magazine. “If he was going to be intentional about his life, I was going to be intentional about mine.”
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