A slightly belated Kyle Miller update
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After winning one World Lacrosse Championship in 2006, Kyle Miller is understandably anxious to win a second. But with the next World Field Lacrosse Championship not taking place until 2010, for now he’ll have to settle for adding Olympic torch runner to his list of accomplishments.
On May 23rd, Kyle carried the torch for a half-mile route in and around Shanghai.
Kyle was selected as a torch runner thanks to an essay written by his older brother Josh Johnston. In it, Johnston had written that by fighting bone cancer and undergoing surgery to have his knee joint replaced and a titanium rod inserted in his leg and then returning to the lacrosse field, Kyle was “giving hope back to people who may have lost it by being a living example that with hope and determination, anything can be overcome.”
“It was awesome,” said Kyle. “I think for us as a family, and just everything that I’ve gone through, he never really told me how proud he was of me or anything like that. So just to read what he wrote, it was pretty cool.”
“It is an honor and a privilege to represent my country in front of the entire world. Carrying the torch in China was one of the proudest moments of my life.”
Ward began covering lacrosse for The Lacrosse Journal in 2005 and became its editor-in-chief a year later. Email her at lauren.ward@nllinsider.com.Rate This Story:
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