Lacrosse coach Jenifer Marrosu sets fresh goal after Hong Kong qualify for 2021 Women’s World Cup
- The New Jersey native says the players have improved dramatically in the eight months she has been with the team
- While Hong Kong players have talent, they need to catch up with countries whose stars have been playing the game since kindergarten
Two years ago, Jenifer Marrosu was watching the Hong Kong women’s team playing in the Asia Pacific Lacrosse Championship on her computer.
Marrosu had no idea at the time that some of the women she was watching on live stream would one day come under her wing. She knew next to nothing about Hong Kong.
In fact, when she later heard about an opening for the position of Hong Kong women’s coach, the New Jersey native went on Google to find out where the city was on the map.
In the eight months since her arrival, though, she has fallen in love with the city and her players, who last month qualified for the 2021 World Cup in Maryland, United States.
“I was actually watching them in 2017 never thinking that I would be affiliated with them let alone becoming their coach,” said Marrosu, a coach of more than 12 years at elite level. “I recognise some of the girls from two years ago not knowing I would coach them.”