Canadians playing NCAA?

[jagged405]

I was curious are there any Canadians playing NCAA lacrosse? If so how do they get there?

[Nanaimo_Lax]

There are tons of Canadians playing ncaa ball! U of Denver recruits lots of B.C. boys, and Zack Greer is a standout attackman for Duke.
If you're looking to get recruited, make a video of your best plays and send to all the coaches you can think of. Where're you from?

[jofc]

Some of the top players in the NCAA are Canadian born and trained. Recruiters do show up in Canada looking at Junior standouts to get their hands on.

[KnightsLAXDad]

There's a thread on the Unofficial OLA forum on this. There is a program in the Toronto area called Edge Lacrosse that is intended to help Canadian kids to both play high-level field and get into US Colleges (SAT help etc).

[OldPtboBoy]

Knights Dad beat me to it.

[Lacrosseology-1994]

Whitby Warriors' Zac Greer plays for Duke (or at least he did the last time I checked).

[titans 43]

you have to be really good and fast, sure you can be good at box but you have to be able to run in field thy look for that more than skill even i think.
but i know that last year schuss, cockerton, palmer, and church all i got recruited from canada to play d 1

[Lacrosseology-1994]

Yup...... the field game is alot more different than that of box. Since the box game has much less ground to run around on, it's a bit easier when you go out, run your shift and come back to rest again.

On the field.... well.... that's a different story. Sure... there are also shifts where you go out and run for a while but you're dog tired when returning to the sidelines.... especially the middies because their job is to roam the entire field and create scoring chances for the attackmen.

Of course, anyone on the field can score but the middies do most of the running around and thus are alot more exhaused.

However.... anyways..... that's how I see it.

[redbirds07]

they dont play a canadian field game either.. its softer field.. more hands and movement than crash and bang that you see in an ordinary minor or u-19 game of field here

[OldPtboBoy]

As was made obvious in the last World Championships.

With a pretty good selection of box players if I remember correctly.

[redbirds07]

unreal selection

[bird]

I was curious are there any Canadians playing NCAA lacrosse? If so how do they get there?
Play field and box. Get a year of Junior (west coast) or three years Junior (east coast) and submit tapes, stats etc to the universities that you like the best. Sell yourself.

[Chamoo]

you have to be really good and fast, sure you can be good at box but you have to be able to run in field thy look for that more than skill even i think.
but i know that last year schuss, cockerton, palmer, and church all i got recruited from canada to play d 1

The Cockerton boys are both still in Canada.

[redbirds07]

so is palmer but they all have offers on the table

[baron]

Here is a partial list (only ontario) from the Unofficial OLA forum

The college annual magazine (bible) examines all the schools and lists a number of players from Ontario as players to watch for the upcoming season:

ADRIAN: (new team) Jeff Ivey, DJ Clevely, Andrew Suitor, Jon Hartnett and Evan Kirk
ADELPHI: Chad Henry
ALBANY: Corey Small
BELLARMINE: Adam Gardner, Dylan McDougall, Sean Thomson, Jamie Floris, Bryan Johnson, Geoff Griffiths, Dilan Graham, Adam Lukanchoff
CANISIUS: Adam Jones, Matt Hajek
DARTMOUTH: Josh Gilliam
DENVER: Jamie Lincoln
DOWLING: Ryan Campbell, Nic Cotter, Kyle O'Brien, John McClure
DREXEL: Andrew Chapman
DUKE: Zac Greer
ELMIRA: Mike Szpiech
HARTFORD: Michael Cudmore
HOBART: Darryl Veltman, Jamie Kirk
HOFSTRA: Jay Card
LYCOMING: Dan Cannon
MERCYHURST; Tyler Burton
NEW ENGLAND: Matt Quinton
NOTRE DAME de NAMUR: Corey Upshaw
POTSDAM: Dan Macrae
QUEENS: Stephan Leblanc
ROBERT MORRIS: Andew Watt, Michael Fleming
SYRACUSE: Stephen Keough, Sid Smith
VIRGINIA: Garret Ince
WHITTIER: Anthony Lackey

Lincoln and Ince are on IL's top 20 freshman list. Lincoln was a top player with
Burnaby in JR A

Greer and Garrett Billings (not listed) are listed in the top 20 attack list. Billings also played for Burnaby and led BC Junior A scoring for 2 years.

There are a number of BC players playing Div 1 NCAA lacrosse, and also quite a few from across Canada playing Div II or III.

A lot of current Canadian NLL players were standouts in NCAA play including John Grant Jr., Brodie Merrill, AJ Shannon, Merrick Thompson, Delby Powless, Blaine Manning, Ben Prepchuk, Taylor Wray, Tracey Kelusky and the list goes on.

[OldPtboBoy]

I know both Sorenson brothers were also talking to American Universities at the close of the box season this summer.

[Bretmac]

just thought i should let you guys know dj clevely dropped out and came back to orangeville

[ChiefsLacrosse1]

i thought brock sorenson was looking at going to loyola?

and just to add to the list, i know of at least 2 guys who are from my area who play at potsdam.

[knightsU19]

There are I believe 11 canadians in Potsdam this year, there was 12 but one returned home after first semester

[callum123]

Whitby Warriors' Zac Greer plays for Duke (or at least he did the last time I checked).

Loyola I think...

[laxdaddy]

Greer goes to Duke. He was their 2nd leading scorer this past season, and scored the game winning (OT?) goal in the semi-finals to propel Duke to the NCAA finals.