ILWT Exclusive: FaceOff Club’s 7th Annual National FaceOff Combine

January 27, 2014

Lacrosse has skyrocketed in popularity; this is reiterated countless times a day by players, coaches and fans. Unfortunately, not many people outside the sport understand quite what it takes to be a topnotch competitor. There are so many professional lacrosse leagues that it would be impossible to hold professional league recruitment combines. The events would overlap too many leagues’ seasons and events, and therefore comes down to college players competing…

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NCAA: Outlooks on St. John’s and Rutgers

The Big East conference will have quite the competition this year and sees a lot of change as well. Gone are Big East powers in Notre Dame and Syracuse. Welcome, Denver, yes Denver to the Big East. While Denver may be the favorite, Rutgers and St. Johns are two teams that could give Denver a run for its money in 2014. St. Johns When talking about St. Johns, the conversation…

January 27, 2014
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NCAA: Fresh Oranges in Syracuse

January 24, 2014

The Syracuse University men’s lacrosse team will begin preparations for the upcoming season Saturday, January 24 scrimmaging Hofstra University and Le Moyne College. The Orange will be looking for a group of new faces to impress in their first spring semester showing with the Syracuse squad. The Syracuse campus will welcome arguably the most sought-after NJCAA transfer in NCAA lacrosse history in former Onondaga Community College star Randy Staats. The…

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Another Quick Blurb on PSU

It is certainly an exciting week here in Happy Valley for the Penn State Men’s Lacrosse Team. After finishing on a high note of a CAA title last year, the Nittany Lions were selected by a poll of the head coaches to lead the conference once again.  They received three first-place votes, higher than any other program was rated, and they captured the top slot with 23 votes overall.  The…

January 23, 2014
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NCAA: Predicted Rankings for 2014

2013 showed that even if you start out on the wrong foot in the beginning of the season, you still have the ability to be champions, and that’s what Coach John Danowski and his Blue Devils accomplished. 2014 is going to be even more special. Players like Rob Pannel (Cornell), Jojo Marasco (Syracuse), Marcus Holman (UNC), Jake Tripucka (Duke), John Kemp (Notre Dame), Mason Poli (Bryant), Owen Blye (Maryland) and…

January 22, 2014
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Nittany Lions Look to Keep Making Statements in Lacrosse

Penn State Men’s Lacrosse has quite the lineup this season. They will be playing 15 games in total, nine home and six away. The team will be traveling to many different parts of the country, including Indiana, Maryland, Colorado, and Ohio. This seems like a rough agenda, but these games are not part of their CAA conference schedule. Their conference game list includes three matches in University Park, PA, along…

January 22, 2014
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2014 Conference Champions Predictions

WRITTEN BY: BRENDAN CHAMBERLAIN With a new year upon us I’m going to dive right in and predict who will win their conference titles in 2014. ACC—This is going to be a slugfest between all six teams in this conference. Syracuse and Notre Dame are new to this league but I’m going with North Carolina as my ACC Champion, based on their depth on defense and strong goaltending by sophomore…

January 7, 2014
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2014 MLL Collegiate Draft Preview: Goalies

With the MLL Collegiate Draft getting set to take place in just eight short days on Friday January 10th, 2014, we here at In Lacrosse We Trust are going to look at the top players at each position. This week we are looking at the offensive side of the ball, specifically at the last line of the defense, the goalies. Last year’s crop of seniors coming into the MLL was…

January 6, 2014
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MLL 2014 Draft Preview: Attack

With the MLL Collegiate Draft getting set to take place in just eight short days on Friday January 10th, 2014, we here are In Lacrosse We Trust are going to look at the top players at each position. This week we are looking at the offensive side of the ball, specifically at the attack unit. There are many talented attackmen coming out this season. While there isn’t a bonfide superstar…

January 2, 2014
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Lacrosse Stories of the Year #3: Duke Takes NCAA Title

Over the next nine days, we will be looking at the top nine stories of the year in lacrosse, based off of our most read and covered stories. Today is #3 with the Duke Blue Devils NCAA championship. Duke lacrosse won their second title in the last five years when they defeated the Syracuse Orange this year to win the 2013 NCAA lacrosse championship. Their road was not an easy…

December 30, 2013
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