Northwestern lacrosse uses Massachusetts building block
High school helps convert NU from club program to national champion

By Philip Hersh
Tribune staff reporter

May 8, 2007, 11:57 PM CDT
Lewis Amonte has taken to calling the team his daughter coaches, "Northwestwood." 
Fits perfectly.

As an amalgam of Northwestern and Westwood, the name describes exactly how players from a small town in Massachusetts have combined with coach Kelly Amonte Hiller to make the Wildcats into the biggest thing in women's college lacrosse.

The girls who turned a fledgling Westwood High School program into state champions have become the women who turned a reborn Northwestern women's program into national champions.