actually help other people to try and have better lives that are less fortunate than he. You see, Brett went out and created a foundation called Lacrosse The Nations to help underprivileged children in third world countries, and he did it without trying to boost his image for better contract negotiations, or with millions of dollars in donations like typical NFL, NBA, NHL, and MLB athletes, name another top athlete in his professional sport that went there for the good of people.
Growing up in Millersburg, Ohio, which Brett will tell you is Amish country Ohio, he recalls open space and growing up very Huck Finn. “My parent’s methodology was to open the door and let me and my brother run all day and all night. Whether it was
fishing, sledding, hiking or playing some kind of a sport, we were always outside doing something.” The son of a psychologist father and a mother who worked in a dental office he learned early on that education and hard work were the keys to being successful. “My dad was working but also in school a lot of my childhood getting his doctorate from Ohio State so I got to see how hard he worked at education to become successful.”
When he was five his father moved them just outside Columbus and that’s where he was introduced to lacrosse. “In second grade my father moved us to Upper Arlington, which is a stone’s throw from Ohio State University and I met my best friend in the world John Foft, who is still like a brother to me to this day. It was a couple of years later
that I got introduce to lacrosse by getting to watch his brother play.” He recalls. “In Ohio that’s all the lacrosse we had, there was no lacrosse on TV or internet so our lacrosse heroes were the high school guys we looked up to. I got my first stick in fifth grade and there was no team for me to play on, so I would throw the ball against the wall as much as I could.”