From Mountain Top to Long island Isabella Caporuscio continues to be one of the best women’s lacrosse players in the country.

The former star at Crestwood the Stony Brook Sophomore has leaped onto the CAA scene garnering conference midfielder of the year and has been named an inside lacrosse midseason all American.

Isabella Caporuscio, Stony Brook sophomore,(Crestwood) says, “ I’ve just been trying to work as hard as I can to do the little things and, you know, just feed off of my teammates, and it’s a great group around me. So, you know, it’s not success for one person I think that, you know, when we’re all together, we feed off of each other and, help each other out. “

This season, Cap opened up her new starting role with Stony Brook, scoring six goals against Bryant and she’s led the Seawolves ever since. She has scored 46 goals with 19 assists, and has helped a very young Stony Brook team to have even more success.

Caporuscio says, “Something I always keep in mind is there’s always room to grow. You know, so you could have, a hattrick one game, but, you know, you, you always trying to aim higher, for, for the next game. And, our coaching staff is awesome. They, it’s easy to have confidence in yourself when you know others believe in you.

So, they’re awesome when it comes to just giving you what you need to hear and, and at the same time, telling you what you need to work on.

Bob Ide asks, Describe yourself as a player right now. If you could describe yourself ?

Caporuscio, says” I think for me, I, I try and do the little things right. You know, the things that. Yeah, having goals or nice assists or nice, the things that show up on the stat sheet are nice. But at the end of the day, those aren’t the things that are always going to win the games. You know, you want to do the little things, whether it’s, gritty plays between the 30s or just beating a player to a ground ball. Those are the things that, you know, see you on a stat sheet that, I really focus on because hustle plays, are going to be talent. “

On Friday, Stony Brook will make their 12th Street appearance in the NCAA tournament after winning another CAA title last season. They lost in the second round of the tournament. And this year, copper Roussillon crew feel they can do even better..

Caporuscio says, “I think it’s a mix of everything, you know, some nerves, a lot of excitement, though. At the end of the day, though, we’ve prepared as best we could. And, you know, when, when you do whatever you can to prepare you, you’re confident and you go in knowing that, you know, it’s you versus the other team.

So there’s not much more you could do. So I’m excited. I think there’s going to be some success that we see as a whole. So it’ll be interesting to see what happens. “