DAILY PILOT HIGH SCHOOL FEMALE ATHLETES OF THE WEEK:CdM twins cause double vision

The Hoover twins are the divas of high school lacrosse.

Don’t ask Addison or Alex who’s more talented with the stick for Corona del Mar High. A fight might break out between these identical twins.

Competition has provoked the 16-year-olds to go at it in the past.

Maybe you’ve seen them before, where they jump off the couch to tackle each other, then throw each other up against the wall before rolling around the ground to pull each other’s hair out.

They’ve acted it out while fighting for the phone.

Can you believe all of this played out on national TV?

The junior twins are used to the spotlight as they’re actors.

The Hoovers have appeared in a handful of national commercials as well as starred in the popular soap opera, “The Bold and the Beautiful,” and the 200th episode of “ER.”

If you haven’t seen them on the tube, you can catch their act up close and live during girls’ lacrosse games.

The striking 5-foot-8, 120-pound blondes are always up for standout performances. Give them a shot and Addison and Alex will most likely score. They have in four of Corona del Mar’s first five games.

In the Sea Kings’ CIF debut last week, the twins finished with identical goal totals — five. And they found the back of the net against their former team, Newport Harbor.

The Hoovers led Corona del Mar to a 19-5 rout at Davidson Field. That’s the field they had planned to star on this year after taking a break from acting to focus on lacrosse, which they plan to pursue in college.

Or so they thought they were going to Newport Harbor until they said they moved in with their mother Susan, who lives near Corona del Mar, after their parents divorced.

“On the first day of school we were driving to [Newport] Harbor, and my mom called us, and was like, ‘Where did you guys go?’” Alex said. “We’re like, ‘It’s the first day of school.’ She was like, ‘You’re going to CdM, your appointment with your counselor is at 9 at CdM.’

“We started flipping out. We knew people from CdM, but we didn’t like them.”

The Hoovers knew the feeling was mutual. The twins, who have been playing lacrosse for six years, are so chic that in the lacrosse circles people dubbed them “The Lacrosse Twins.”

Everyone wanted a piece of these so-called prima donnas who have been in the entertainment business since age 11, but they’re far from being vain. Behind the camera, yes.

But before the duo reached real success in the acting studio and the lacrosse field, it struggled just to stand.

Addison remembers getting hit by a car three years ago while crossing the street near her house. She said she held onto one of the car’s mirrors to ensure that the driver wouldn’t speed away.

“He would’ve dragged me along with him if he would’ve gone,” she said.

She said the driver stopped, but he stayed in the car with his doors locked and windows up.

“He never got out of the car to see if I’m OK,” she said.

Left on the ground withering in pain, all bruised, and with a broken left foot, Addison said she hoped for the best. Her family had no idea of her condition, just the strangers she said had stopped to allow her to cross the street before getting struck.

But Alex figured something was wrong when her sister didn’t return after going to go grab something out of their father Don’s car.

“It was really weird because I had a feeling that something happened. I knew she’d left, but I was kind of freaking out, and I was like, ‘Where did Addison go?’” Alex said. “All of a sudden my neighbor comes up, and she’s like, ‘Addison got hit by a car.’ I just went sprinting down there.”

Alex found Addison getting lifted onto a gurney and into a ambulance. All Alex thought about was her sister’s well-being and how Addison always came to her aid during her trying time with her right knee.

Addison, who was out for six months, now jokes about Alex’s knee and how it would constantly pop out of place.

Addison demonstrates how she would pop Alex’s knee back into place, trying to push her own right kneecap to the left. With no success, she described the sound of it as being similar to a current Pringles commercial they’re in.

“When they make those loud pops,” said Addison before laughing.

Unlike Pringles’ slogan of “Once you pop, the fun don’t stop,” Alex resented seeing her knee pop.

“It was gross,” she said.

Alex said the agonizing pain and having her knee break forced her to get surgery in Dec. 2003.

“I wasn’t getting blood to the bone and my knee was weak, and then I had extra cartilage buildup,” she said. “I had to have eight holes drilled in the bone and have cartilage taken out and three dissolvable screws put in. One of the most painful things ever.”

Alex’s thankful for her recovery and so is her sister. The Hoovers are inseparable on and off the field.

Both said they aren’t going anywhere without each other. True. With only one car right now, they can’t drive away without the other tagging along.

They recently bought a 2003 Mercedes-Benz C240 with earnings from acting. Who drives it? They take turns, just like they do with the scoring duties for Corona del Mar.

Addison, an attacker, leads the team with 18 goals through five games, and Alex, a defender, is second with 10.

With the Hoovers at Corona del Mar, Emmily Attyah said they “make” the team.

As for who’s better?

“There is no better,” said Alex, cutting off Addison before she answers.

“I guess if one of us had to be better, it would be me because I’ve been playing longer,” said Addison with a grin.

“Excuse me?” Alex said.

Typical divas.

ADDISON HOOVER

&

ALEX HOOVER

Hometown: Newport Beach

Born: June 10, 1990

Height: 5-foot-8

Weight: 120 pounds

Sport: Lacrosse

Position: Addison (attacker), Alex (defender)

Coach: Kathy Chaix

Favorite food: Ice cream (both)

Favorite movie: “Clueless” (both)

Favorite athletic moment: Scoring all of the Newport Harbor club team’s goals in an 11-3 win over Thatcher in their freshmen year. Addison scored seven goals and Alex had four.

Week in review: Addison and Alex each scored five goals in Corona del Mar’s CIF debut, a 19-5 victory over the Hoovers’ former team, Newport Harbor. They also combined for seven goals in CdM’s 11-4 win over Los Alamitos.