For almost every GTA born Lacrosse player their dream is to one day pull over the red, blue and white of the Toronto Rock. For the 2013 Major Series Lacrosse Rookie of the Year Ethan O’Connor, that dream became a reality as the Rock selected the Milton,ON native in the first round, ninth overall pick of the 2013 National Lacrosse League draft. The Hobart College grad is an outstanding transitional…
ConnectLax Acquires LaxTrainers
ConnectLAX.com, the leader in private lacrosse instruction, has acquired LAXTrainers.com. LAXTrainers was founded by Connecticut-natives Harley Brown and Jack Vaughan, and operates as a lacrosse-targeted search engine to help players find private instructors.LAXTrainers’ instructors will join ConnectLAX and the largest network of private instructors in the US. Harley will be joining the ConnectLAX team to build on their health and nutrition blogging platform and social media strategies. Harley and Jack felt that by combining with ConnectLAX, they could…
USA Can Build Off of Bowhunter Cup
The United States Developmental Team struggled against the Iroquois powerhouse, but there are some positives the players can take out of the loss.
Hall of Famer O’Toole Made Huge Impact with Knighthawks
Former Rochester Knighthawks goalie, Pat O’Toole is set to be inducted into the NLL Hall of Fame the night of the Knighthawks preseason game. O’Toole is the only player being inducted into the hall of fame this year. He will be joining Russ Cline, Chris Fritz, Gary Gait, Paul Gait, Les Bartley, Tom Marechek, Darris Kilgour, Mike French, Tom Borrelli, Sal LoCascio, Johnny Mouradian, Tony Resch, Neil Stevens, Dallas…
Is Hayes a Fit with Roughnecks?
Jake Hayes took the road less travelled on his route to being drafted in the 5th round by his hometown Calgary Roughnecks. The Calgary native reversed the trend by playing back east this year year with the Brooklin Redmen in Major Series Lacrosse in 2013. Normally you see many eastern guys moving west for more playing time, greener pastures, or to experience different scenery, but Hayes took on the challenge…
Syracuse Names Four Captains for 2014 season
Syracuse is coming off a 16-4 season that resulted in becoming a national runner up last season. This year they hope to get back to the national championship game and reverse the results. After a fall ball that featured scrimmages against Team Israel and the Iroquois National Team, the team ended fall ball with a game against the Syracuse Alumni. As is customary with most teams, the end of fall ball…
NCAA Team Schedules: Lehigh, Manhatten, Mercer
Some NCAA 2014 schedules are slowly being released, and we piece it together below as it happens.
Swarm Lose Rights to Jeremy Boltus
The Minnesota Swarm have lost the rights to forward Jeremy Boltus.
Liberty to Move Up to MCLA Division One
At the annual SELC meeting in Atlanta on September 22, Liberty University’s transition from MCLA Division II to Division I was unanimously accepted in voting by the Southeast Lacrosse Conference. “There are 22 teams in Division I of the SELC and they all get a vote,” Flames head coach Kyle McQuillan said. “It’s a very big move for our program. We’re definitely ready and we don’t feel intimidated about it.”…
Can Navy Stop Sinking?
Since legendary coach Rich Meade decided to step down and lead a program that he has built into one of the better college lacrosse programs in the nation, things haven’t been the same in Annapolis. Last season the Midshipman were a lowly 3-10 last season which featured up and down performances across the board all season long. With the 2013 Fall Ball season drawing to a close the Midshipmen will…