Inside Lacrosse No. 1 Recruit Alexa Spallina Commits to Syracuse
September 21, 2023
Kenny DeJohn
SPORTS EDITS 2.0
The pipeline from the Spallina household to Syracuse University seems to be getting stronger by the day.
Alexa Spallina, the No. 1 high school junior according to Inside Lacrosse, announced her commitment to Syracuse on Thursday morning. She will join her three brothers — Joey, Brett and Jake — in the Dome. It also appears as if she will wear No. 22, just like Joey.
.@ILWomen No. 1 recruit Alexa Spallina commits to @CuseWLAX. By the 2025-2026 school year, there will be four Spallina siblings in the Dome. https://t.co/ggwRCZ8sPX
The Mount Sinai (N.Y.) and Yellow Jackets attacker was one of just 54 high school sophomores to earn USA Lacrosse All-America honors this year. She competed in the USA Lacrosse National Team Development Program Combine in 2021, led her Yellow Jackets club to back-to-back championship game appearances at the USA Lacrosse Youth Nationals and emerged this summer as a standout in First Class Lacrosse’s Best in Class series.
“There’s no moment too big for Spallina,” Inside Lacrosse wrote in its Class of 2025 rankings.
Joe Spallina, the head coach of Stony Brook, will now likely have to game plan for his daughter in what has become an annual contest between the Seawolves and Orange.
Kenny DeJohn has been the Digital Content Editor at USA Lacrosse since 2019. First introduced to lacrosse in 2016 as a Newsday Sports reporter on Long Island (yes, ON Long Island), DeJohn specializes in women's game coverage. His search for New York quality pizza in Baltimore is ongoing.
