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The Crotty family: Back row, from left, John Ross, Virginia, Ned, Joe, Martha and Sarah Crotty Dunleavy. Front row, from left, Alexandra Crotty Ross, Jerry and Lucy Crotty, and Mike Dunleavy. Dunleavy, another Duke alumnus, played basketball for the Blue Devils and now plays for Indiana Pacers.
Ned Crotty with late Delbarton Athletic Director Brian Fleury.
Young Ned Crotty suits up for the Morristown Colonials as a student at the Harding School.
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sick that he had to skip practice. It was the only day in his five years at Duke (the cancelled 2006 season earned him an extra year to play) that he missed a session. Even famed Duke Basketball Head Coach Mike Krzyzewski is a Crotty fan. He described him in Duke’s 2010 Lacrosse yearbook as “exactly the type of young man I have loved coaching on my basketball team.” A history major with a minor in sociology, Crotty joined his classmates for graduation and stayed in Durham a while longer. It seems the University had a little something called a language requirement. “I enjoyed languages so much that I took two different ones before deciding that Latin was my calling,” he jokes. “Unfortunately the Latin teachers at Duke were not as good as Br. Paul.” Last July, as the youngest member and only collegian on Team USA, Crotty competed in the Federation of International Lacrosse World Championship in Manchester, UK. Nathaniel Badder, Director of National teams US Lacrosse, recalls, “What impressed me most was the transformation Ned undergoes every time he buckles up his chinstrap.” Crotty’s versatility on the field enabled his coaches to play him in many different roles and he excelled in them all. During the July 24th gold medal game Crotty scored two goals in the final period to tie and help win the 1210 game against rival Canada. Team USA Assistant Coach, and West Point Head Lacrosse Coach, Joe Alberici says, “Scoring the fourth quarter game-tying and winning goals is something that will go down in National Team history as one of the most clutch performances of all time.” As fate would have it, Team USA’s Head Coach was Mike Pressler, now Head Coach at Bryant University, the man who recruited Crotty to play at Duke. Crotty continues his commitment to athletics. In June 2010 he signed a contract with lacrosse equipment manufacturer Brine to assist in a variety of marketing initiatives and new product development. Crotty was also hired as sales and marketing manager for Trilogy Lacrosse, which runs camps, clinics and