For more than five years, Jake Pulver has saved a voicemail on his phone. The recording is short – just 50 seconds long – but its message looms large to this day.
 
"It was from my club lacrosse coach, Rick Beardsley," says Pulver, "and it was just him saying that I should look at other schools because Cornell and the other Ivies didn't want me."
 
A month prior to receiving that voicemail, Pulver had attended the Cornell lacrosse program's prospect camp, in hopes of getting recruited by the Big Red. Unfortunately for the Manlius, N.Y. native, the Cornell coaches weren't interested in the undersized defenseman.
 
But Pulver knew something the Cornell coaches didn't know.
 
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