Senior Wesley Sanders signed with Virginia Military Institute (VMI) on November 15th for lacrosse.

 
VMI is a Division I school in lacrosse and Sanders is the first player from Bowie’s Lacrosse team to sign with a Division I, college.
“I felt very accomplished due to one of my long lasting goals of playing Division I lacrosse was finally met,” Sanders said.
VMI selected Sanders at the VMI campus showcase where they were put on teams and played games against each other.
“I verbally committed to play lacrosse for VMI at the showcase, I felt the same as when I decided I would be signing with them,” Sanders said.

 
Sanders visited the campus of VMI in the summer of 2013 to look around and check it out.

 
“I visited in the summer to see if I liked it and I met some of the players and coaches,” Sanders said “They offered me a spot on the team at that visit after the tryout. I went for my official visit in November.”

 
Sanders was contacted by Bellarmine University, Rutgers University, Ohio State, Mount St. Josephs, and many more. Sanders settled on VMI.

 
“I picked it because they are one of the few DI lacrosse school with engineering, I like the area, school, and people, they make it possible to do lacrosse and ROTC,” Sanders said.

 
Sanders has played lacrosse for seven years, when he started he didn’t think he would ever make it this far, but after playing in high school he knew he wanted to play lacrosse.

 
“When I started lacrosse I was still really interested in football but when I started playing in high school, I pretty much knew I wanted to play it at the highest level I could,” Sanders said.

 
Sanders plans on studying Mechanical engineering at VMI.

 
“It interests me and I think that’s what I would be best at,” Sanders said.