Chelsea, MI. – The rain is starting to fall on a cool spring evening as the Chelsea Lacrosse team is playing host to the Dewitt Panthers in the first round of the playoffs. And it didn’t take long for the Bulldogs to get on the board. Just 57 seconds into the game Senior Bulldog Cam Breining cut across the middle and jumped in the air and launched a bullet for a shot for the Bulldogs first goal of the game. It was a feat he would repeat in many different fashions 10 more times on the evening leading his Bulldogs to an 18-9 victory and forever etching his name in the Michigan High School Athletic Association (MHSAA) record books.
With his 11th goal of the game, it would be the 200th goal of his storied four-year career as a Bulldog, placing him in the top ten of all time career goals and placing him fourth overall for most goals in a single game for the records. His 66 goals in 2018 place him in the top 20 for most goals in a season.
Breining has been outstanding in his Bulldog career not just on the field as a leader and scorer but off the field too and in the classroom where he excels at academics. In spite of his record-setting night surprisingly his best lacrosse memory came in his freshman year against his rivals.
” In my freshman year against Dexter, I scored the game-tying goal to send the game into overtime where we won 9-8,” Breining stated. “But I would have to say what I feel was my greatest accomplishment was being able to start on such a great talent-laden team my freshman year and obviously scoring my 200th goal.”
Cam is a very busy young man. In the summers he works with his dad Jim, who is the Chelsea Junior Varsity Lacrosse coach, at Jackson Machine Tool and he likes to spend time on the lake fishing and riding jet skis. In the winter he enjoys playing pond hockey & snowboarding with his friends.
Cam will be attending Grand Valley State University in the fall where he will be studying Criminal Justice. He is the son of Victoria and Jim Breining of Chelsea and has an older brother Alex who served in the United States Army, and a younger brother Zachary, who also plays lacrosse.
“I’m very happy and proud of what I’ve accomplished and I’ve had great coaches and teammates but I couldn’t have done it without my mom and dad,” Breining said. “I don’t know what I’d do without them.”
