Graduates of the Salisbury School on 2022 Division 1 lacrosse rosters include players from New York, North Carolina, Connecticut, California, Florida, Georgia, Ohio, New Jersey, Virginia and South Carolina. You’d find them playing at such top-tier D1 programs as Maryland, Virginia, Cornell, and Duke. And don’t forget the Canadians. There were another four of those:…
Heading into Championship Weekend this season, the state of Oregon has been front and center in the D1 college lacrosse world. Even with the elimination of Penn and Tewaaraton Finalist Sam Handley, three of the remaining Final Four teams this year have a key player from the Beaver State. Throw in the high-profile transfer this week…
Inside Lacrosse has recognized as First-Team Media All-Americans two players from outside the sport’s traditional hotbeds: Oregon’s Sam Handley, a midfielder at Penn, and Georgetown midfielder Graham Bundy Jr., from St. Louis, Missouri. For Handley, his selection by IL marks his first post-season honor since 2019—-which also marks his last full season of D1 competition. Handley…
Former players at Avon Old Farms can be seen on elite rosters throughout Division 1 college lacrosse, including those of such perennial, surefire NCAA Tournament selections as North Carolina, Syracuse, and Johns Hopkins. But not in 2022. However inconceivable—not to mention statistically impossible—it might seem, none of those teams even qualified for the 2022 Tournament.…
You may still be staring at the 2022 men’s lacrosse bracket through your fingers. Did the selection committee really just exclude both Duke and, especially, Notre Dame? On the other hand, there were two other teams we all knew going in had no chance of making the field. How? You’d just have to look back…
This is another in a series of posts—intended for players, fans, and recruits—focusing on some of the lesser-known, lower-profile programs within Division 1 college lacrosse. Merrimack Lacrosse only recently made the move from Division II to D1. The move for reclassification was, as you might’ve suspected, strategic. Which is far from unusual. Colleges and universities…
