Taylor Cummings, perhaps the greatest all-around collegiate lacrosse midfielder of all time, resigned this week from her scholastic coaching position at Owings Mills McDonogh (Md.).
She exists that position the way that she entered lacrosse as a high-school freshman in 2009: an absolute winner. Cummings and her coaching staff were able to guide a talented Eagles squad to the Class “A” championship of the most competitive lacrosse conference in America, the Interscholastic Athletic Association of Maryland.
The accomplishments of Taylor Cummings are well known. She was this site Player of the Decade for the 2010s, and well-deserved. No matter whether she wore McDonogh orange, Maryland red, the light blue of the New York Fight, the purple of the Baltimore Ride, the weekly color scheme afforded her in Athletes Unlimited, or the red, white, and blue of Team USA, all she did was win.
The sure-fire Lacrosse Hall-of-Famer has been sensational at the highest level, winning two gold medals in the World Cup, two NCAA championships, and three Tewaaraton Awards.
It would appear that she’s about to parlay this success into a burgeoning lacrosse business empire. Using her education at Maryland from the Smith School of Business, she has started her own lacrosse training company, based upon midfield play and training on how to win the draw, her specialty.
She also promotes lacrosse with Top of the Bay Sports, and was recently hired as the Director of Lacrosse by Spellman Performance and Universal Speed Rating, a company which seeks to teach biomechanics and advanced technical training to individual athletes.
In addition, she has been on the air with the Big Ten Network and ESPN as a good and insightful women’s lacrosse color analyst.
That’s a lot on one’s plate. But the fact that she has made a break with the school that helped make her a star on the field and on the coaching sideline has set off a smattering of speculation about her future. Might she take a Division I program in a prominent conference, such as the open Ohio State University position? Might she be in line for a future Division I team at a university such as Miami, Wake Forest, Georgia, Texas, or Tennessee?
Or could it be that Taylor Cummings, after so many years of high-performance lacrosse, is ready to make an impact in the board room, helping to grow the game across the United States?
No matter what she chooses to do, I’m sure it will be a successful and winning effort.
It’s what she does.
