flex (n.) — Amer. slang: displaying off about one’s accomplishments or traits
The U.S. ladies’s lacrosse group is mastering the artwork of the “flex” within the Pan American Lacrosse Affiliation’s qualification match for subsequent 12 months’s WorldLacrosse World Championship.
It’s a group which has a bunch of Tewaaraton award winners, and generational skills in Charlotte North and Taylor Moreno. Certainly, the group managed a “flex” earlier than the match even started, changing the NCAA’s single-season goal-scoring record-holder in Madison Taylor due to damage.
However right this moment, in what needed to have been the last word flex, the U.S. group, regardless of being the house aspect, selected to put on darkish navy shirts for a June afternoon recreation in Florida.
It didn’t matter, regardless that Canada, the silver-medal winner of the final World Championship, was the opponent in right this moment’s last.
America, taking part in an otherworldly model of ladies’s lacrosse, flexed its option to a 22-11 win. The U.S. group principally gained the sport with a 6-0 run spanning the interval, taking a 14-5 lead within the third quarter. The Canadians by no means bought to inside 5 the remainder of the way in which. Marie McCool and Izzy Scan had hat tips to steer the hassle. Present Tewaaraton Trophy winner Chloe Humphrey had three assists together with former B.C. star Kenzie Kent.
This loaded U.S. aspect has to enter subsequent 12 months’s World Championship with a confidence — and flex — equal to its expertise. It’ll be attention-grabbing to see if any world aspect can construct a group to compete with the Stars and Stripes.
