TRIPLE-DUTY: Baltimore Lutheran senior Aimee Chotikul (above) has committed to Rutgers University, where she plans to play girls' lacrosse, a sport in which she has anchored the Saints' girls to an Interscholastic Athletic Association of Maryland C Conference title as a goalie. Chotikul also has anchored the Saints' girls and boys' soccer teams to league crowns.
ONE OF THE GUYS: Baltimore Lutheran's Aimee Chotikul is shown (above) playing goalie for the Saints' boys' soccer team, which she helped to anchor to a Maryland Interscholastic Athletic Association C Conference title last season. Earlier in her career, Chotikul was a goalie on both the Saints' title-winning girls' soccer team as well as a netminder on the Saints' championship girls lacrosse team.
by Lem Satterfield
E-mail: lsatterfield@digitalsports.com
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Baltimore Lutheran senior Aimee Chotikul, who, as a goalie, has anchored one each in championship teams in boys soccer, girls soccer and girls lacrosse, told DigitalSports that she has committed to play girls lacrosse at Rutgers University.
"I committed to Rutgers on Monday. And I'm going to play lacrosse. I loved their coach, Laura Brand, and I loved the players on their team," Chotikul said. "They have great intensity, on and off of the field, and they're tightly bonded."
Chotikul, last year, anchored the Saints' boys' soccer team to a 3-2 Maryland Interscholastic Athletic Association C Conference title-winning effort over Chapelgate of Howard County.
"Aimee's the best goalie I've ever worked with, and I've been coaching soccer for 10 years," said Saints' boys soccer coach David Merritt.
She also anchored the girls lacrosse team to a runner-up finish to Interscholastic Athletic Association of Maryland C Conference rival St. Vincent Pallotti.
Chotikul, who also has one IAAM C Conference girls lacrosse title to her credit, will play that sport at Rutgers.
"Rutgers is a bigger school and it has everything that I'm looking for both in an education and a lacrosse program," said Chotikul, who is an A-average student. "I want to be an athletic trainer, and I'll have an opportunity to work toward that there."