Blind Brook Trojan Seth Low recruited to play college LAX with help from 'The Wall' & friends

November 29, 2023 at 11:12 p.m.

Blind Brook lacrosse defensive standout Seth Low has been recruited to play college LAX by Muhlenberg. (Courtesy photo of Seth Low)

The tape he places on his helmet and across his always aching wrist before every game he plays helps explain why Blind Brook's Seth Low has been recruited to play D-3 college lacrosse for Muhlenberg in Allentown, Pa.

Because across that tape Low writes some variation of the words “I love you mom,” sometimes with a heart, sometimes without.

His mother Amy died when he was 7.

But he still feels she is always with him, always influences him, always makes him try his hardest to be his best.

Familial encouragement

So does his father, David, who played lacrosse for Boston University and was one of the prime forces behind BU going from a club LAX team to a collegiate force playing a regular, rugged NCAA (National Collegiate Athletic Association) schedule.

But that only tells part of Seth's LAX story on how he became a defensive standout as a six-foot, one inch, 180-pound long stick midfielder for the Trojans, a team that is about to embark on its first indoor off-season lacrosse schedule with Low as the guiding spirit behind the attempt to get a jump on the regular season.

That leadership also shows how far Seth has come.

Because he never "picked up a stick and really began playing lacrosse until my sophomore year of high school," he recalls.

"It was mostly soccer and baseball for me up until then," Seth remembers. "My father was always asking me to have a lacrosse catch with him, but the sport never really caught on with me until my freshman year."

Game to remember

He remembers going to a Trojans lacrosse game and seeing his friend play, noticing how much fun they were having together and how exciting the game was, so much excitement and fun that he walked away thinking next year he was going to try out for the team and play LAX as well as soccer.

So he tried out and not only made the LAX team, he excelled on defense and showed so much promise his friends encouraged him to think about playing the sport in college. Those friends included the inspirational Evan Taerstein (now at Colby) and the unflappable Jake Minick (Ohio State), who urged him to think about playing a lot of off-season lacrosse because he had the makings of a college player. So did two of his best Trojan buddies, Michael Berman Annunziata (a Clark University LAX recruit) and Ethan Leland, a soccer hotshot.

Seth listened. He began working out a lot with his father. And discovered what LAX players called "The Wall" and pretty much made "The Wall" his own.

Club ball & 'The Wall'

"The Wall" requires a lot of time and effort and Seth forgot the clock and did a lot of tick tocking, playing an endless game featuring himself, the stick, and the ball against the wall, until the "stick" became like an extension of his arm, hitting the ball against the wall and catching it with the stick over and over again, first with the left hand, then the right, then with the stick in front of him, next behind his back, 20 repetitions each time, over and over, again and again, until the movement became second nature to him. The flow eventually became an extension of his training. And the training led him to the next step.

That step took him into playing off-season, fast-paced club travel team ball with the Westchester Warriors playing out of Kennedy Catholic High School in Lewisboro. And the Warriors experience helped get him into talent showcases watched closely by college recruiters. When he made the Primetime Colonial Classic All-Star Showcase Team that really caught the recruiters' collective eye, Muhlenberg, a small liberal arts college in the Lehigh Valley, made the most sense to Seth because of its combo of academic and sports excellence, its coaching staff and its closeness to home (about a three-hour drive). It would also give him a competitive Division 3 league (the Centennial) to play in on a team where he felt he could make an immediate impact while also giving him a solid education in business and finance, areas he hopes to pursue in college.

Lasting Trojan impact

But Seth also hopes to have a lasting impact on Blind Brook sports as well before he graduates, much as his father did at Boston University where he was an LAX walk-on who became lacrosse team president and captain and a prime mover behind BU LAX becoming an NCAA varsity sport. Seth is coming off a successful Trojans soccer season and wants the LAX team to be just as successful. So he has been instrumental in organizing what could become the school's first off-season LAX travel team season playing in the House of Sports Westchester Indoor League starting in early December in Ardsley where the Trojans will play a regular Saturday night schedule against similar area likeminded teams looking to get a jump on the regular season.

Seth has already won the Blind Brook Ted Reed Memorial Award and scored a rare goal as a defensive player against Croton-Harmon last season, but he isn't looking for awards or goals as a senior finishing out his final athletic year as a Trojan. He is looking for continued Trojan and Lady Trojan sports excellence. And that includes the success of the Lady Trojans Dance Team that includes his kid sister Alison because, Seth says, "Ally dances like a pro and so does the Dance Team. They put on highlight shows at halftime of the Blind Brook basketball games."

And the LAX team hopes to provide many highlights of their own before Low, Annunziata et al shuffle off to college.