Lucy Camlin to Bring International Experience to Orange
6/15/2016 10:59:00 AM | Field Hockey
Over the coming weeks, head coach Ange Bradley will announce Syracuse's incoming class for the 2016 season. Check back to Cuse.com to stay up to date with who will join the Orange to bolster its roster for another run at an NCAA title in 2016.
Previous Additions: Katie Supey | Emilie Bruujn | Claire Webb
Scottish National Team member and graduate student goalkeeper Lucy Camlin is set to join the defending NCAA Champions in 2016, hoping to bolster a defense that allowed less than a goal per game last season.
"Lucy brings a wealth of international experience to our team. She has played for both the Irish age group teams and is presently a member of Scotland's National Team," said head coach Ange Bradley. "As a Goalkeeper she has a good overview of the game organizes and communicates very well. She is quick aggressive and an explosive goalkeeper. We are excited to have Lucy be a part of Orange Nation!"
Camlin had played through the Irish National Teams in the junior ranks, but began playing for Scotland after completing her residency requirements, while attending Edinburgh University.
She played her first cap with the Scottish National Team in a 1-0 shutout of South Africa in Cape Town, South Africa this past March.
Edinburgh was the 2015 Scottish National League Champions and claimed the 2014 Scottish Cup Championship in her time there.
"Her commitment to training is excellent and she works weekly with our specialist goalkeeper coach," Edinburgh Director of Hockey Eugene Connelly said. "She has proved an exceptional goalkeeper with quick reactions, good technique and also enormous bravery as she is prepared to put herself into dangerous areas of her D to defend her goal. Aided to this, she has one of the best attitudes of any player I have coached or managed in the past-30 years."
Camlin, who originally hails from Antrim, Northern Ireland, attended Ballyclare Grammar High School, where they won the Ulster Schools Cup Championship in 2012, Shield Championship in 2010 and Plate Championship in 2009 with Camlin in net.
"Lucy's dedication to a variety of sports is fabulous," said Ballyclare head coach Dr. Michelle Rainey. "Lifestyle management is a key contributor to her success. Lucy is continually juggling time commitments, negotiating training programs, ensuring she is eating and sleeping properly and handling all mental aspects of such commitments.
"Lucy is a determined and talented young athlete who demonstrates her talents with quiet modesty and an insightful appreciation of her fellow teammates."
She also ran cross country and participated in table tennis at Ballyclare Grammar. In cross country, she led her team to the All-Ireland Championship in 2008, while helping the team to runner-up honors in 2010, and third-place finishes in both 2007 and 2009. Her cross country teams were seven-time district champions during her seven seasons there, and earned four Ulster Cup Championships. Camlin was also a successful table tennis player, helping her squad to All-Ireland runner-up honors in both 2008 and 2010.
Camlin has a passion for working with children and young adults with special needs and will be completing her Masters in teaching to compliment her bachelor's degree in Physiotherapy from Edinburgh to continue her work in that field and helping those in need.
She chose to come to Syracuse because of 'all that the University could provide both academically and athletically.'
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