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Zach Granger a mental health advocate with a leader mentality

Follow the leader: The well-known childhood game that Zach Granger took quite literally.

“It was kind of like I joined (lacrosse) by default because my brother did. It was that older sibling, younger sibling dynamic where you kind of just follow him wherever he goes,” Granger said.

That is, until the redshirt junior became a leader himself.

Granger grew up in Media, Pennsylvania, and began playing lacrosse in the third grade. He said he never imagined the sport would take him to the Midwest and Milwaukee.

“Coach Stimmel actually showed me around when I toured, he was an assistant coach at the time.