Severna Park’s Brynn Williams Suits Up For Wales

Severna Park senior Brynn Williams landed the opportunity of a lifetime over the summer.

The 17-year-old from the Falcons girls lacrosse team got to represent her heritage on the biggest stage in July, playing for Wales at the 2026 World Lacrosse Women’s Championship in Japan.

Williams heard about an opportunity to represent her father’s birth nation and looked into it, primarily eyeing the U20 team on account of her age. But as the sports adage goes, if you’re good enough, you’re old enough, and she made the senior team and the final cut list for worlds.

“It involved a lot of flying to the (United Kingdom), because they really value their homegrown players and I was only one of a few who was based in the U.S.,” said Williams, the only player on Wales’ worlds roster listed with a non-UK hometown. “But the team made it so easy for me, and they were so welcoming.”

Williams was the youngest player on the team, along with one other 17-year-old, playing alongside women as old as 43 and against the best of the best.

Wales played against Germany, Australia, Canada, the Philippines and Ireland, placing 12th at the tournament. Williams appeared in all five games, securing one ground ball and winning her only draw opportunity.

Game speed was the biggest learning curve for Williams, she said, noting Canada’s players in particular were a challenge to defend and a source of inspiration to learn and to keep improving.

“That helped me see that my ceiling can be higher than I thought,” said Williams, who has already committed to play lacrosse at the University of Vermont. “A lot of athletes, once they commit to college, can kind of think that’s it and slow down, but I learned a lot about how I can still improve even more.”

Not only does Williams hope to continue her lacrosse international career into the 2030 games, but she has already game-planned how she can help Severna Park push forward toward another successful season in 2027.

“I learned so much about just having a positive mindset, because in the past I would often start getting negative and frustrated if things weren’t going well,” Williams said. “But with the team, we just kept reminding ourselves that we were in Japan, playing and having fun. That helped us a lot, especially against Germany when we won in overtime.”