Growing up, Dante Trader Jr. was quickly acquainted with the game of football thanks to his father being an assistant coach at Salisbury University.
When he was eight years old, his dad came to him with the choice to diversify his skill set with baseball or lacrosse, and he opted to pick up the lacrosse stick.
“I went out and tried lacrosse — but it was hard at first,” Trader told Testudo Times. “I just got good at it over the year and years.”
That decision paid off well for Trader, now the No. 5 rated prospect in the Class of 2021 and committed to Maryland men’s lacrosse.