Last week, we released both the Connecticut all-state and All-Fairfield County Interscholastic Athletic Conference teams. In case you missed it, you can check out the all-state team by clicking here and the All-FCIAC team by clicking here.

Today, we have the All-Americans and Academic All-Americans for Connecticut, selected by the Connecticut High School Lacrosse Coaches Association. Also selected were the Man of the Year and coaches of the year. Mike Epstein of Brien McMahon was named USL Coach of the Year.

Darien’s Case Matheis was named CHSCA Player of the Year and Brien McMahon’s Gabe Nardi-Huffman was named CHSCA Scholar-Athlete of the Year. Matheis will attend Duke. Nardi-Huffman is bound for Wesleyan.

Here’s the rundown:

US LACROSSE ALL-AMERICA
PLAYER NAME SCHOOL POSITION GRADE
Andrew Buckanavage Ridgefield Midfield 12
Parker Burr Simsbury Goalie 12
Joe Costigan New Canaan Midfield 12
David Dickson Greenwich Midfield 12
Michael Francia Wilton Attack 12
Patrick Holland Wilton Defense 12
Ryan Mallon New Fairfield Midfield 12
Torrey Martone Cheshire Defense 12
Case Matheis Darien Attack 11
Graham Maybell Darien Midfield 12
Kip Orban Staples Midfield 12
Eric Parnon Darien Defense 12
Matthew Shannon Ridgefield Defense 12
Sam Somers Wilton Goalie 12
J.P. Walsh Darien Midfield 12
US LACROSSE ACADEMIC ALL-AMERICA
Connor Byrne Fairfield Prep Midfield 12
Henry Downes East Catholic Defense 12
Justin Menke New Fairfield Midfield 12
Gabe Nardi-Huffman Brien McMahon Midfield 12
Oscar Nordness Stonington Midfield 12
Phillip Schapiro Stamford Defense 12
Andrew Suslavich Ridgefield Midfield 12
CT COACHES OF THE YEAR
Mike Epstein Brien McMahon Class L
Jeff Lombardo Daniel Hand Class M
Paul Deon Stonington Class S
ASSISTANT COACHES OF THE YEAR
Steve Garneau Conard Class L USL Assistant Coach Of the Year
A.J. Alessi Branford Class M
Chris Jez Somers Class S
MAN OF THE YEAR
Michael Voucas Fairfield Youth Lacrosse

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6 Responses to “Here are your 2011 Connecticut All-Americans”

  1. Lax Novice says:

    Congratulations to all, well deserved.

  2. laxer says:

    bayliss treen is first team all FCIAC to Matt Shannons 2nd team. Yet he is not on the list. Both are amazing players, its just interesting to see how things change from in to out of league perception.

    • laxr says:

      Perhaps it has something to do with limits for how many all americans a team can have. Darien already has 4, so maybe they couldn’t get any more. Regardless, I would have thought that if Darien got 4 all-americans, Treen would be one of them, along with leading scorer Richard Gregory.

    • It Depends says:

      In fact, I thought being on your All-League’s First Team list was also a requirement for selection to the AA Team?
      And there is no rule regarding a number limitation per school. Both Darien and Wilton have had 5 AA’s represented in one year in the past.

  3. Ram Tough says:

    Jimmy Joe Granito from NC shouldve been an AA

  4. I-95 Lax says:

    Congrats to all.

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