Grant Limone has some big goals for both himself and his Weston (Conn.) lacrosse team this coming spring. But you’ll have to excuse the standout goaltender who has verbally committed to defending national champion Loyola for taking a bit of a break from the sport during the winter months. That’s because the 6-foot-3 junior is [...]
When it comes to lacrosse hotbeds, the New York/New Jersey/Connecticut tristate region is, of course, No. 1. So now that National Letter of Intent Fall Signing Week, which runs from Nov. 14-21, is upon us, the question is: What college is No. 1 when it comes to landing commitments from tristate seniors? The answer is [...]
It won’t be long now. Scores of seniors from the nation’s No. 1 hotbed for lacrosse, the New York/New Jersey/Connecticut tristate area, will be making their verbal commitments binding Nov. 14-21 during National Letter of Intent Signing Period. More on that — plenty more — to come, of course. In the meantime, there’s plenty of [...]
With the National Letter of Intent Fall Signing Period coming up soon – Nov. 14-21 – we’ll have a college-by-college breakdown of senior commitments from the nation’s No. 1 hotbed for lacrosse, the New York/New Jersey/Connecticut tristate region. NLIs must be attached to athletic scholarships. Nevertheless, we will include all Division I- and Division II-bound [...]
When Nolan Callahan transferred to prep school in New Hampshire two years ago, the hockey goalie from Florida contemplated playing tennis in the spring. But he wound up trying lacrosse. Now, the rising junior at Avon Old Farms (Conn.) is headed to one of the nation’s premier D-I powers — Syracuse. Callahan’s intriguing story is [...]
That’s the question Joe Lombardi asks in his weekly column on tristate lax for InsideLacrosse.com. Right now, it’s a heated race between Delbarton (N.J.), Chaminade (N.Y.), St. Anthony’s (N.Y.) and Don Bosco Prep (N.J.). Joe had three separate commit updates yesterday at Twitter.com/joe_lombardi that had big impacts on that unofficial recruiting race: * Chaminade (N.Y.) [...]
John Distler, the head coach Joel Barlow High School, has used a term not often heard in relation to lacrosse players to describe Mike Mattson, one of the Falcons’ leading players on this past season’s Connecticut Class S state title team. That word is slippery. “I generally agree with that label,” said the 5-foot-11, 175-pound [...]
It was a week that started with a first college commitment by a rising sophomore from a tristate area school — Orleans, Ontario native Jake Fox of Trinity-Pawling (pictured above) — and ended with the first commit by a tristate resident who’s a rising sophomore — Brian Willetts of Smithtown East. In between, the Maverik Showtime [...]
The nation’s No. 1 hotbed for lacrosse, the New York/New Jersey/Connecticut tristate region, will be well-represented when hundreds of the leading high school players in the nation will be competing in the 2012 Champion All-American Showcase July 22-27 at the ESPN Wide World of Sports Complex in Lake Buena Vista, Fla. The girls event is [...]
The following are boys collegiate commitments from the New York/New Jersey/Connecticut tristate area for the high school graduating classes of 2013, ’14 and ’15. If you have a commitment to report, or any additions to make to this rundown, email us at info@laxlessons.com. For breaking recruiting commitment news, follow Joe Lombardi on Twitter @joe_lombardi or by [...]
What recently graduated high school players will make immediate impacts as freshmen in college? Who are the top five boys and girls returning players for next year? Who are the boys and girls tristate players of the year for this past spring. Joe Lombardi and Carl Reuter will give their thoughts on those questions and [...]
Connecticut’s 2012 US Lacrosse All-Americans will be among those honored on Tuesday, June 19 at 7 p.m. at the CHSCA annual Lacrosse Banquet at the Aqua Turf Club in Southington. Here’s a look at award winners: All-Americans Matt Brophy, Fairfield Prep, senior, midfield, Deerfield Academy Tony Britton, Darien, senior, defense, Cornell Kevin Brown, Fairfield Prep, junior, attack, [...]
Here are your 2012 New York, Connecticut state champions; New Jersey Tournament of Champions winners
BOYS State championships Connecticut at Brien McMahon High School, Norwalk Class L Fairfield Prep 8, Ridgefield 6 Class M Darien 11, New Canaan 5 Class S Joel Barlow 15, Somers 2 New York at Faller Field, Middletown High School Class A West Islip 12, Ithaca 7 Class B Garden City 11, Irondequoit 5 Class C [...]
It’s title time. Among the headlines: * Garden City, Shoreham-Wading River and New Canaan will be trying to win both boys and girls titles. * The GC boys, making their third straight title-game appearance, last won a championship in 2000. The GC girls are looking for their seventh straight championship. * Shoreham-Wading River’s boys, fresh [...]
State championships New York Saturday, June 9 at Faller Field, Middletown High School (pictured above) Class C Shoreham-Wading River vs. Penn Yan winner, 11 a.m. Class A West Islip vs. Ithaca, 1:30 p.m. Class B Garden City vs. Irondequoit, 4 p.m. * Click here for the complete New York state boys and girls brackets Connecticut Saturday, June 9 [...]
