BOWLING GREEN — The great irony of Mike Wilcox‘s life is he ultimately was proven correct about his sport, yet watched it happen without his alma mater.
The former chairman of the board for the US Lacrosse Foundation and Toledo businessman has spent much of his adulthood insisting that lacrosse could and would thrive in the Midwest, even when the game was played mostly by East Coast prep schools and colleges.
Indeed, lacrosse exploded in popularity during the past decade, especially. In addition to many new teams at the varsity level, multiple youth programs sprouted in northwestern Ohio.