NCAA Division 1 Men’s Lacrosse Rankings as of 5/02/2011

2 May

Syracuse is back on top after a dominant win over Notre Dame.  The Orange delivered the first loss of the season to the Irish in front of 15,000 screaming fans in the Carrier Dome.  ND dropped from #1 to #4 in the polls.

Cornell swapped spots with Hopkins to take over #2, while the Blue Jays drop to #3.  Cornell clinched the Ivy League with a win over Princeton this weekend.

Maryland remains in the #5 spot, followed by Denver in #6.

Virginia moved up two spots to #9, despite the loss of the Bratton brothers.  Shamel Bratton was kicked off the team after multiple violations of “team policies”.  Dom Starsia removed Shamel from the team after the players voted on the matter.  Twin brother Rhamel Bratton was placed on suspension indefinitely.  Read the full story on the matter by the Washington Post.

USILA NCAA Men’s Lacrosse Coaches’ Poll:

Rank Team Points 1st Place Votes
1 Syracuse University 213 6
2 Cornell University 209 3
3 Johns Hopkins University 199 2
4 University of Notre Dame 188
5 University of Maryland 167
6 University of Denver 161
7 Duke University 151
8 Hofstra University 143
9 University of Virginia 121
10 Villanova University 118
11 Bucknell University 114
12 University of North Carolina 113
13 Stony Brook University 89
14 Colgate University 68
15 University of Pennsylvania 63
16 University of Massachusetts 45
17 Harvard University 39
18 Loyola University 36
19 Army 27
20 Yale University 24

ALSO RECEIVING VOTES

Penn State University , Siena College , Drexel University , Robert Morris University ,
Ohio State University ,Georgetown University

MLL: Rochester Trades Park & McGlone to Denver for Catalino & 5th Round Draft Pick

29 Apr

Jarett Park

Bill McGlone

DENVER — The Denver Outlaws have acquired midfielders Bill McGlone and Jarrett Park from Rochester in exchange for the rights to Denver’s 2011 draftee Grant Catalino and the team’s 2012 fifth-round collegiate draft choice, the team announced on Wednesday.

McGlone played 10 games last season, netting 16 goals with five assists to finish with 22 points, which ranked in league’s top-25 for both goals and points. He is entering his sixth MLL season after playing with Chicago (2009-10), San Francisco (2008), Washington (2007-08) and Baltimore (2006). McGlone played three seasons (2007-09) in the NLL, tallying 22 goals, 18 assists and 179 loose balls in 42 career games. He earned All-American honors during his final three seasons at the University of Maryland. McGlone, who was drafted fifth overall by Baltimore in the 2006 MLL Collegiate Draft, was born on April 24, 1984 in Swarthmore, Pa.

Park is entering his seventh MLL season, having played with Chicago (2009-10), Washington (2008), San Francisco (2006-08) and Boston (2005). He has totaled 30 goals, 26 assists and 170 ground balls during his MLL career. Park is in his sixth (2006-11) NLL season, where he currently plays for the Colorado Mammoth and has posted 21 goals and 29 assists in 57 career games. He attended Syracuse University, where he led the team in ground balls for three consecutive seasons. Park was drafted by Boston with the 18th overall selection in the 2005 MLL Collegiate draft. He was born on Oct. 25, 1982 in Winfield, Ill.

The Outlaws selected Catalino 21st overall in the 2011 MLL Collegiate draft. He currently plays attack for the University of Maryland and has scored 20 goals with eight assists on the season.

High School: 2011 ESPN RISE Lacrosse Warrior 40 Schedule Announced

28 Apr

ESPN RISE today announced the second annual Warrior 40 will expand to include four cities across the country to search for the best rising high school lacrosse athletes nationwide, culminating in the Warrior 40 Final Competition, a three-day event held at Harvard University in Cambridge, Mass., on July 7-9, 2011.

The four regional camps will take place in the regions of: Denver; Long Island, N.Y.; Baltimore and Boston. At the Warrior 40 regional camps, athletes will receive advanced, one-on-one instruction and compete against the nation’s best, ultimately narrowing down the entire lacrosse national playing field to only 40 elite high school players, named the 2011 Warrior 40.

The final Warrior 40 athletes will then attend the Final Competition in July at Harvard University, a three-day event comprised of improving lacrosse players’ knowledge on and off the field.

Players must be recommended and pre-registered in order to attend, but the events are open to media and public spectators.

Full schedule of events:

Warrior 40 Regionals

 Date Event
  Location  Time
 June 6 West Regional  Dick’s Sporting Goods Park
(Commerce City, Colo.)		  2-6pm
 June 14 New York Regional  Hofstra University
(Hempstead, N.Y.)		  3-7pm
 June 16 Mid-Atlantic Regional  Towson University
(Towson, Md.)		  4-8pm
 June 20 New England Regional  Harvard University
(Cambridge, Mass.)		  3-7pm

Warrior 40 Final Competition

Date

Event

Location

July 7-9
2011

Warrior 40
Final Competition

 Harvard University
(Cambridge, Mass.)

For more information on the Warrior 40 Regionals and Final please visit: http://rise.espn.go.com/lacrosse/events/Warrior-40.aspx?pursuit=Lacrosse

Television Coverage

The Warrior 40 Final competition will be televised on ESPNU and ESPNRISE.com.

2011 NCAA Men’s Division 1 Lacrosse RPI Rankings as of 4/26/2011

27 Apr

It’s time for the infamous RPI rankings…  Be sure to check out last season’s post that demystifies the RPI ranking process for Men’s Division 1 lacrosse, and provides insight into the criteria used to position each team on the list.

Syracuse gets the top spot, despite being ranked 4th in the USILA poll.  Notre Dame shows up #2 in the RPI, while being #1 in USILA.  Villanova gets a high rank being #4 in the RPI, while they’re #10 in the USILA.  The full list is below.

NCAA Lacrosse Division 1 RPI Rankings:

Rank Name Record Road Neutral Home Non-Div I
1 Syracuse 12-1 2-0 4- 0 6-1 0-0
2 Notre Dame 10-0 4-0 1- 0 5-0 0-0
3 Cornell 10-2 6-1 0- 1 4-0 0-0
4 Villanova 9-3 4-2 0- 0 5-1 0-0
5 Duke 11-5 1-1 0- 3 10-1 0-0
6 Johns Hopkins 10-2 3-1 2- 0 5-1 0-0
7 Virginia 8-5 1-4 1- 0 6-1 0-0
8 Denver 10-2 4-1 1- 0 5-1 0-0
9 Bucknell 12-2 5-2 0- 0 7-0 0-0
10 Hofstra 12-1 4-1 1- 0 7-0 0-0
11 Maryland 10-3 5-1 0- 0 5-2 0-0
12 Penn 8-4 2-4 0- 0 6-0 0-0
13 North Carolina 9-5 3-2 0- 1 6-2 0-0
14 Stony Brook 8-3 3-1 0- 0 5-2 0-0
15 Loyola Maryland 8-3 4-2 0- 0 4-1 0-0
16 Princeton 4-7 2-2 1- 0 1-5 0-0
17 Penn St. 7-5 3-2 0- 0 4-3 0-0
18 Colgate 9-4 5-2 1- 0 3-2 0-0
19 Yale 10-2 4-1 0- 0 6-1 0-0
20 Georgetown 5-7 3-4 0- 1 2-2 0-0
21 Drexel 7-6 1-4 0- 0 6-2 0-0
22 Massachusetts 8-4 4-2 0- 1 4-1 0-0
23 Army 9-4 5-3 0- 0 4-1 0-0
24 Delaware 9-5 2-3 1- 0 6-2 0-0
25 Hobart 5-8 1-5 0- 0 4-3 0-0
26 Ohio St. 7-7 2-5 0- 0 5-2 0-0
27 Harvard 8-5 3-3 0- 0 5-2 0-0
28 Siena 10-3 4-2 1- 0 5-1 0-0
29 Albany (NY) 4-9 0-6 0- 0 4-3 0-0
30 Fairfield 7-6 3-3 0- 0 4-3 0-0
31 UMBC 6-5 2-3 0- 1 4-1 0-0
32 Binghamton 6-7 2-6 0- 0 4-1 0-0
33 St. John’s (NY) 4-8 2-4 1- 0 1-4 0-0
34 Hartford 8-6 5-3 0- 0 3-3 0-0
35 Robert Morris 8-5 4-4 0- 0 4-1 0-0
36 Towson 2-10 1-5 0- 0 1-5 0-0
37 Dartmouth 5-8 2-5 1- 2 2-1 0-0
38 Brown 5-8 1-6 0- 0 4-2 0-0
39 Lehigh 7-8 2-4 0- 0 5-4 0-0
40 Vermont 6-8 1-7 0- 0 5-1 0-0
41 Mt. St. Mary’s 7-5 3-2 0- 0 4-3 0-0
42 Rutgers 5-7 2-2 0- 2 3-3 0-0
43 Air Force 5-7 2-3 1- 2 2-2 0-0
44 Navy 4-9 1-6 0- 0 3-3 0-0
45 Quinnipiac 5-6 2-3 0- 0 3-3 0-0
46 Bryant 7-8 3-4 0- 0 4-4 0-0
47 Marist 6-6 4-3 0- 0 2-3 0-0
48 Bellarmine 4-10 1-8 0- 0 3-2 0-0
49 Canisius 2-9 1-5 0- 0 1-4 0-0
50 Providence 3-10 1-3 0- 1 2-6 0-0
51 Detroit 5-8 1-6 1- 0 3-2 0-0
52 Jacksonville 5-8 3-4 1- 0 1-4 0-0
53 Sacred Heart 4-8 2-3 0- 0 2-5 0-0
54 St. Joseph’s 0-11 0-5 0- 0 0-6 0-0
55 Manhattan 3-12 2-8 0- 1 1-3 0-0
56 Lafayette 2-11 1-6 0- 1 1-4 0-0
57 Holy Cross 2-12 1-6 0- 0 1-6 0-0
58 Presbyterian 2-10 1-8 0- 0 1-2 0-0
59 Wagner 0-11 0-6 0- 0 0-5 0-0
60 VMI 2-10 1-5 0- 0 1-5 0-0
61 Mercer 1-12 0-7 0- 2 0-3 1-0

NCAA Division 1 Men’s Lacrosse Rankings as of 4/25/2011

26 Apr

There were no changes in the top four spots in Week 10 of NCAA Men’s D1 lacrosse.  Notre Dame remains unbeaten, with some stiff competition close behind that includes Hopkins, Cornell, and Syracuse.

Maryland finally breaks through into the #5 slot, after taking home the ACC Championship this weekend.   The only newcomer to the top 20 this week is Tambroni’s Penn State Nittany Lions, who had a big win over Delaware.

USILA NCAA Men’s Lacrosse Coaches’ Poll:

Rank Team Points 1st Place Votes
1 University of Notre Dame 200 10
2 Johns Hopkins University 181
3 Cornell University 177
4 Syracuse University 174
5 University of Maryland 153
6 University of Denver 152
7 Duke University 137
8 Hofstra University 136
9 University of North Carolina 112
10 Villanova University 109
11 University of Virginia 104
12 Bucknell University 94
13 University of Pennsylvania 78
14 Stony Brook University 71
15 Yale University 50
16 Colgate University 38
17 Army 36
18 Loyola University 26
19 University of Massachusetts 25
20 Penn State University 22

ALSO RECEIVING VOTES

Harvard University , Siena College , University of Delaware , Drexel University

2011 Men’s Lacrosse Tewaaraton Trophy Nominees Announced

19 Apr

Washington, D.C. – With lacrosse season now in full swing, the 2011 Tewaaraton Award is pleased to announce this year’s nominees. Awarded to the top male and female collegiate lacrosse player, the Tewaaraton award is the nation’s pre-eminent collegiate lacrosse accolade.

A watch list which began with over 100 names has been whittled down to 25 males and 24 females. This year’s nominees represent 23 different schools and some of the country’s top lacrosse programs. Five male and five female finalists will be selected from the nominees. Finalists will be invited to the award ceremony in June where a male and a female winner will be honored.

“In now its 11th year, the Tewaaraton Award continues to establish itself as the pre-eminent collegiate lacrosse honor,” said Robert Sweeney, President of the Greater Washington Sports Alliance. “This year’s field is one of the best yet, and our selection committees have done a tremendous job sorting through the brightest talent in the college lacrosse world. We are looking forward to another exciting finish to the lacrosse season and seeing what the nation’s best players have to offer.”

The 11th annual Tewaaraton Award will be presented on June 2, 2011 at the historic Warner Theatre in Washington, D.C. Event details and ticket information can be found at www.TewaaratonAward.org. Fans can also follow the Tewaaraton Award on Facebook for daily updates and news.

Official Men’s Lacrosse 2011 Tewaaraton Nominees

Player College – Year (Position)
Peter Baum  Colgate University – Sophomore (Midfield)
Billy Bitter  University of North Carolina – Senior (Attack)
Jeremy Boltus  United States Military Academy – Senior (Attack)
Zach Brenneman  University of Notre Dame – Senior (Midfield)
Jay Card  Hofstra University – Senior (Attack)
Grant Catalino  University of Maryland – Senior (Attack)
C.J. Costabile  Duke University – Junior (Midfield)
Kevin Crowley  Stony Brook University – Senior (Midfield)
David Earl  University of Notre Dame – Senior (Midfield)
Brian Farrell  University of Maryland – Senior (Midfield)
John Galloway  Syracuse University – Senior (Goalkeeper)
D.J. Hessler  Tufts University – Senior (Attack)
Zach Howell  Duke University – Senior (Attack)
Shayne Jackson  Limestone College – Junior (Attack)
Brian Karalunas  Villanova University – Senior (Defense)
Stephen Keogh  Syracuse University – Senior (Attack)
John Lade  Syracuse University – Senior (Defense)
Rob Pannell  Cornell University – Junior (Attack)
John Ranagan  Johns Hopkins University – Sophomore (Midfield)
Adam Rand  Stony Brook University – Senior (Midfield)
Kevin Ridgway  University of Notre Dame – Senior (Defense)
Steele Stanwick  University of Virginia – Junior (Attack)
Garret Thul  United States Military Academy – Sophomore (Attack)
Joel White  Syracuse University – Senior (Midfield)
Ryan Young  University of Maryland – Senior (Attack)

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New Meaning to “You’re Never Too Old To Play”, with Dave Zoni of Brookdale CC

18 Apr

Remember this video “For the Love of the Game“?  Well, this guy took it to heart.  Brookdale Community College lacrosse player Dave Zoni is living the dream held by many middle-aged former athletes who saw their careers end in their late teens. At age 37, he returned to junior college as a freshman nearly two decades after he was forced to give up the sport due to the death of his father. Now 39, he’s winding down what he says will be his final season.

Check out the video story on NJ.com >

Dave Zoni returned to the lacrosse field at age 39.

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