Emily Krupnick is anything but lax in her praise for these athletes.<\/p>\n
“Over the last six months since I’ve been out here with them,” Krupnick said. “It’s, it’s, it’s a dramatic increase in, in talent and skill, athleticism. They look really great. “<\/p>\n
Krupnick is a volunteer with Bronx Lacrosse. The organization offers its namesake sport, tutoring, college readiness and more.<\/p>\n
“They use lacrosse as a method to get kids invested in and thriving in school,” she said.<\/p>\n
The sport has been a lifelong passion for Krupnick. She and her twin sister, Julie, started playing it as children.<\/p>\n
“I just loved having, having lacrosse to go to every day and having the team and the people,” Emily Krupnick said.<\/p>\n
Emily Krupnick kept at it. She was the captain of the lacrosse team at Haverford College.<\/p>\n
A year after she graduated, Emily Krupnick volunteered to join her sister, who was already working at Bronx Lacrosse.<\/p>\n
“I would come home and rave about the program, and she knew right away that she wanted to get involved,” Julie Krupnick, the managing director of operations at Bronx Lacrosse, said.<\/p>\n
“I really wanted to find a way to stay involved in the sport, give back to the community through the sport that I’ve, I’ve played forever,” Emily Krupnick said.<\/p>\n
The Murray Hill resident is now part of the associate board, organizing young professional events for Bronx Lacrosse.<\/p>\n
She mentors players in everything from their math homework to their matches on the road.<\/p>\n
Emily Krupnick is also building up the organization’s women’s program. The number of girls at Bronx Lacrosse has more than doubled in the last five years.<\/p>\n
“There’s been such a boom in women’s sports in the last few years,” Emily Krupnick said. “It’s exciting to see that translate to the college, the high school, and the community programming.”\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
“She’s a big leader for me,” said Marcelle Djabigou, a Bronx Lacrosse participant. “Like, I look up to her a lot, and she just teaches me a lot of the things I know now.”\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
It’s a chance to instill a passion for the sport that has given her so much.<\/p>\n
“I just love seeing the kids so happy playing lacrosse and, having lacrosse sticks, walking around in the community and then going on and doing great things,” Emily Krupnick said.<\/p>\n
For helping young people attack their goals, Emily Krupnick is our New Yorker of the Week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Emily Krupnick is anything but lax in her praise for these athletes. “Over the last six months since…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":352291,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[7914,25,7913,9,24,55,54,7911,12,56,7912,27,200],"class_list":["post-352290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-app-new-yorker-of-the-week","tag-app-top-stories","tag-chelsea-katz","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-city-headlines","tag-new-york-city-news","tag-new-yorker-of-the-week","tag-news","tag-ny","tag-pat-kiernan","tag-top-stories","tag-vod"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352290","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=352290"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352290\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/352291"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=352290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=352290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=352290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}