Windham graduate takes lacrosse skills to college-level games

By Matt Pascarella

Windham High School 2022 graduate Logan Campbell grew up playing Windham Youth Lacrosse and is now competing in the sport in college at Southern New Hampshire University.

Windham High graduate and Southern New Hampshire
University junior Logan Campbell stays alert during a 
men's lacrosse game against Felician University in
February. Since graduating from Windham High School,
Campbell has majored in construction management with
a minor in finance while showing he's a skilled leader
on the field for SNHU. PHOTO BY JIM STANKIEWICZ

Campbell began playing in fourth grade and grew to love lacrosse. Now a junior in college, Campbell is majoring in construction management and minoring in finance. After college, he hopes to have a job working for a commercial construction company.

“He has always shown a positive approach to everything he does on and off the field,” said Paul Calkins, SNHU men’s lacrosse coach. “Logan began showing leadership qualities this season. When we talk about ‘glue guys’ and ‘SNHU guys’ he is the first name that pops up with our staff. He is the first guy to the building for meetings, lift and practice. His best quality is his calm presence. There is nothing that rattles him. He has always sets an example of ‘if you work hard your opportunities will come.’”

Campbell says that he loves the challenge of playing in every college game, along with the preparation for playing in those games.

One of the reasons he chose SNHU was because his friend and Windham graduate Travis Brown also goes to school there. He and Brown grew up playing Windham Youth Lacrosse which eventually transitioned into them playing for the varsity team at Windham High School.

When Campbell visited SNHU, Brown, now a senior on SNHU’s men’s lacrosse team, introduced him to members of the team and Campbell said he felt welcomed knowing that this place would be his spot for the next four years.

“Logan and I were very close throughout our youth,” Brown said. “His dad was our first lacrosse coach. We have been playing lacrosse together since as long as I can remember. He reached out to me for advice in his recruiting process. Of course, I helped him as much as I could, but at the end of the day, I was pushing him to join me at SNHU.

“Overall, I thought he’d fit in well at SNHU educationally and athletically and would love to have him on my team for another three years,” said Brown. “Logan is a great leader on the field. Logan is 110 percent focused on his craft and wants to better himself every chance he gets. I’ve seen this rubbing off on the younger defenders around him. Seeing a lifelong friend in front of you makes you want to work that much harder.”

Peter Small, Windham’s varsity boys’ lacrosse coach, prepared Campbell for collegiate lacrosse by teaching him that your stick skills can never be the best no matter who you are, and he also showed him how to be a good teammate on and off the field.

Campbell said playing for a college team is always a grind. But there is a good culture at SNHU and especially this year, he said. The team hangs out together outside of lacrosse and there’s never a dull moment.

He loves working hard for things and Campbell is addicted to the process of improving his game, whether that be in the gym, running or stick work. Playing time is not guaranteed in college, it’s granted. Any day you take off, your competitors are getting better than you.

“I define success as doing the little things on a daily basis and having discipline,” said Campbell. “Fall in love with the process, and the success will come along with it. If you have discipline and know you have to do something when you don't want to, you will succeed.” <