The lacrosse community, you would think, would be especially attuned to the perils of stereotyping. But a lax recruit from Nevada? The guy would inevitably have to be some kind of edgy, Sin City caricature. Maybe a composite of Dan Bilzerian and a youthful Andre Agassi, performing stick tricks aboard a replica Venetian gondola, or…
Andy Towers may have may come closest to distilling the characteristics of the best lacrosse players from Texas. While coaching at Dartmouth, the current Premier Lacrosse League coach described Division 1 lacrosse recruits coming out of Texas as “hyper-competitive, athletic, tough and hard-nosed”. The 14 Texans listed below have all excelled in Division 1 college…
John Tesh? The former television host and sportscaster? The prancing, lantern-jawed composer of that frenetic, and seemingly inescapable NBA anthem “Roundball Rock”? John Tesh? Yes, John Tesh played Division 1 lacrosse. And, granted, it’s especially hard to imagine the six-foot-six Tesh, who’s been known to emerge onstage via a Houdini-style trap door, referred to as…
There were 47 players from Minnesota on Division 1 college lacrosse rosters in 2019. One of them, Nick Washuta, is considered among the nation’s best goalies. In February 2019, Washuta was coming off a highly successful 2018 sophomore season in which he’d led the nation in save percentage, and seen his University of Vermont team…
In its Division 1 college lacrosse preseason scouting report, the Baltimore Sun selected this team as the “best of the Midwest”. It wasn’t Ohio State. And, no, it wasn’t Notre Dame. So, it must’ve been… Marquette? Michigan? Cleveland State? Detroit Mercy? Actually, it was none of these teams. It was Butler… The season being previewed,…
Two 2018 hall of fame induction ceremonies encapsulate a good deal of the history between college lacrosse and the state of Ohio. In December 2018, the Intercollegiate Men’s Lacrosse Association posthumously inducted into its Hall of Fame longtime Denison coach Tommy Thomsen. Located about 30 miles northeast of Columbus and Ohio State, Denison is a…
Is California a D1 college lacrosse hotbed? Yes and no. California is by no means a traditional hotbed for D1 lacrosse. There isn’t a single D1 lacrosse program in California. There wasn’t even a D1 game played in the state until 2005. And it wasn’t even until that year, 2005, that Hopkins, for instance, even…
This is not a list of prominent lacrosse players who attended the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, but of prominent Division 1 college lacrosse players from the Tar Heel state. That distinction is an especially important one because of the strange history of lacrosse in, and with, the state of North Carolina. So just…
A number of Michigan’s all-time best lacrosse players are products of the state’s dominant high school program. And just how unusual is it for that program not to win a state high school championship? It’s not exactly as momentous as, say, the U.S. hockey team’s victory over the Russians in the 1980 Olympics—the so-called “Miracle…
The state of Illinois ranks fourth nationally in turning out D1 players… ..in hockey. So what’s the relevance to lacrosse? For one thing, the two sports share a dislocation in numbers between grassroots participation within Illinois and representation in-state at the college D1 level. Players from Illinois do comprise the fourth largest contingent of D1…
