Long Island Lizards attack Tim Goettelmann has experienced a long and momentous career in Major League Lacrosse. This Saturday he will try and break one of lacrosse’s most coveted records, the MLL mark for career goals which is held by Jesse Hubbard who scored 247 from 2001-2008. Geottelmann, with 245 career goals, needs 3 in his 2 remaining games to break the record this season.
“I’m excited,” says Goettelmann. “I’m thinking about it now because it’s so close.”
Goettelmann would like to break the record Saturday in the Lizards final regular season home game. The Long Island native has played his entire 10-year career with the Lizards and hopes his family will be able to witness his achievement in person.
“I’d like to do it next weekend at home, rather than on the road in Toronto,” he says. “I’m from Long Island and I live in Long Island. I live in Garden City right by home. This could quite possibly be my last home game. So I’m thinking about it and I’m excited.”
Goettelmann already holds the MLL record for career games played with 120, establishing himself as the league’s true Iron Man. Matt Striebel of the Chicago Machine is second with 107 games played in his career.
In week 5 of the 2010 season, he broke the record for the most game-winning goals in a career, when he scored in overtime to defeat the Chicago Machine. It was the 13th game-winning goal of his career passing Roy Colsey for the all-time honor. However breaking the all-time goals record would be his most momentous achievement. This season he has scored 15 goals, moving ahead of MLL legends Scott Urick and Mark Millon on the all-time list in the process.
“I couldn’t have written a better script for my career,” he says. “I’ve scored a lot of goals on some great goaltenders throughout the 10 years.”
