Maxwell Highsmith

Max, born in 1964 and a native of Hempstead, New York, grew up loving lacrosse. He was always too small for football. He never had the hands for basketball and could never learn the complexities it took for baseball. With cross-country running as his only athletic skill, lacrosse and Max fell in love. His love for America's first team sport remains to this day. He hopes to be "tip of spear" that will push Lacrosse as an Olympic sport. Max, a non-graduated alum of the University of South Carolina, is a military veteran of two services. In Feb 2004, his U.S. Army Reserve unit was federalized for deployment as a part of "Task Force Eagle's Talon" but his unit (310th PERS GROUP-Columbia, SC) never made it to meet the Task Force in Kuwait. He is currently still unsure why but definitely believes in divine intervention. As a service member; he was an I.T. Field Help Desk leader, a qualified combat medic, a Squad Automatic Weapon (SAW), M249 Light Machine Gun operator and a squad leader. H