WEST VIEW — Sam Struss has seen her varsity lacrosse career come full circle — and it helped lead the Seneca Valley girls team to a WPIAL Division I Championship.

Struss, who tallied four goals in the game, keyed the Raiders to a 12-11 victory over Sewickley Academy, but she also won at a place where her career got started — at Martorelli Stadium.

Struss was an attacker the first two years at North Hills High School before her family moved to the Seneca Valley area.

“You start here and you end here,” said Struss, who will be attending Liberty University this fall. “This is definitely a great place to play.”

“North Hills, they won tonight (for the District 2 championship preceding the Raiders game) so I had two places to cheer for.”

“Sam is definitely the definition of lacrosse passion,” said Raiders coach Dina Hughes. “She practices like a WPIAL champion every day.

“You ask any of the girls and every drill, it's 100 percent. There's so much desire. She wants to win all the time. She trusts her teammates.”

Her Raiders teammates warmed to her quickly and the squad enjoyed a great season last year before the losses in the WPIAL title game as well as the first-round PIAA quarterfinals.

Hughes, however, remembers Struss when she played with the Indians.

“When we played North Hills when Sam was a freshman, I told the team, ‘if there's only one person we've gotta watch out for, it's her.

“I never thought in my wildest dreams she'd be playing for us,” Hughes added.