 Hewit is the son of Russell and Nan Hewit , and his siblings are Grant , Meghan and Rusty . Born November 8 , 1985 , and raised in Chatham , New Jersey , Hewitt began playing lacrosse as a youth . Both of his older brothers played and introduced him to the sport . Hewit started playing lacrosse in fourth grade in a local recreational league in his hometown . By sixth grade he was converted from an attackman to a goalie , but not until the coaches convinced his mother 's that her concern for her son 's safety were unwarranted . He met his middle school , high school and college teammate Dan Cocoziello taking an entrance exam for the Delbarton School in sixth grade . On the seventh and eighth grade team and the freshman team at the Delbarton School he also played goalie . In eighth grade , he made a New Jersey state eighth @-@ grade all @-@ star team along with Cocoziello that competed against all @-@ stars from other states . He made the varsity team as a sophomore and helped lead the team to a cumulative 63 – 4 record and three high school lacrosse state championships . He was an all @-@ state and all @-@ conference goalie who made the headmaster ’ s list as a student . He was regarded as the fifth @-@ best high school lacrosse recruit in the nation in the 2003 , according to Inside Lacrosse . Since his older brother Grant was at Princeton , the college was on his short list along with Johns Hopkins , Duke , Harvard and Dartmouth . Grant later became captain of the 2006 Tigers lacrosse team . 
