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Today marked the official start of practices and tryouts for teams throughout the Hudson Valley/Long Island/Connecticut region.
While we’ve been focusing on the arrival of a new season, the recruiting news continues to come in.
Today, we have news of a commit from the Class of 2011, Sachem North’s Jake Cabble, a midfielder who is headed to Robert Morris.
For an overview of scores of commitments from the leading seniors and juniors in the Hudson Valley/Long Island/Connecticut region, you can check our updated Recruiting review and commitment rundown any time 24/7.
One team that is well represented is Cold Spring Harbor.
The commitments continue to roll in gang.
As always, you can check out an archive of the recruiting updates we’ve posted here by clicking here
Our updated recruiting review and commitment rundown is also available 24/7.
Late tonight, I got word of yet another major junior class commitment.
Sachem North’s Michael Andreassi, a junior attackman/midfielder, has committed to UMass. (File photo by Ray Nelson)
Junior attackman Brian Coleman of Garden City has committed to Penn.
(File photo by Jim Stout/MaxPreps.com)
The Garden City Trojans fell to Sayville in a squeaker last year in the state quarterfinals.
But the Trojans appear to be the Class B team to beat on Long Island this season given the fact that 11 players are planning on continuing playing the sport at the next level.
We have another major commitment from one of the top juniors in the Hudson Valley/Long Island/Connecticut region, folks.
Bronxville standout midfielder Jack Near, who starred this past summer for Prime Time Lacrosse, just called me moments ago from Colorado, where he is enjoying some skiing during winter break, to inform me that he has verbally committed to accept a scholarship offer from Notre Dame.
Near (pictured above in a file photo by Jim Stout/MaxPreps.com) was also recruited by Syracuse, Georgetown, Hofstra, Colgate and Brown.
Rye midfielder Jack O’Callaghan, one of the top juniors in the Hudson Valley/Long Island/Connecticut region, told me this morning that he has decided on a college after being recruited by many Division I programs.
“I have verbally committed to Coach (Jim) Nagle at Colgate and am looking forward to playing there with Kevin Gordon,” O’Callaghan said.
Speed kills. It’s so important, in fact, that some players get by on it alone.
Add scoring ability, smarts and stick skills and you have a complete college prospect.
Meet St. Anthony’s midfielder Joe LoCascio, the 29th-ranked junior in the nation by Inside Lacrosse, who has given a verbal commitment to the University of Maryland.
LoCascio also has the bloodlines. His father played Division I lax, and his uncle is four-time UMass all-America goaltender and former MLL/NLL star Sal LoCascio.
Two of the top juniors in the Hudson Valley/Long Island/Connecticut region – Darien defenseman Eric Parnon and St. Anthony’s midfielder Joe LoCascio – will continue their collegiate careers at Maryland.
Parnon, who is 6-foot-3 and 190 pounds, has quickness that belies his size.
One of the top juniors in the Hudson Valley/Long Island/Connecticut region, Bronxville’s Charlie McCormick (file photo above by Jim Stout/MaxPreps.com) just informed me moments ago that he has given a verbal commitment to accept a scholarship offer from Georgetown University.
A versatile and athletic midfielder with good size and skills, McCormick was a target recruit of some of the nation’s top programs.
You can read and review a comprehensive list of the college destinations of the leading players from throughout the Hudson Valley/Long Island/Connecticut region by checking out our commitment rundown.
For individual profiles of many of those players, be sure to click here.
For the stories behind those commitments, we bring you our “Recruit spotlight extra” feature.
Next up is Horace Greeley defensive standout Hunter Bastian, who has committed to Division III power Wittenberg University in Springfield, Ohio.
For a Q&A with Hunter on his commitment, check the second page of this post.
You can view our archive of more than 130 player spotlights by clicking here.
In this space, we provide more context behind the commitments. Next up is senior defenseman Jamie Lunt of The Harvey School in Katonah.
The 6-foot-3, 190-pound team captain, who came to Harvey by way of Pelham, was an All-Hudson Valley Athletic League selection who played for Team Superstar’s U17 Elite team last summer.
I’ve been known to spend some time each summer in East Hampton.
But as we’ve seen here the last few days, there is plenty going on at the eastern end of the South Shore of Long Island during the spring as well.
As in lacrosse.
We’ve been profiling several members of the Bonackers’ boys lacrosse team who have committed to colleges.
You can read and review a comprehensive list of the college destinations of the leading players from throughout the Hudson Valley/Long Island/Connecticut region by checking out our commitment rundown.
For individual profiles of many of those players, be sure to click here.
For the stories behind those commitments, we bring you our “Recruit spotlight extra” feature.
Next up is East Hampton senior midfielder Ryan Shaw, a standout in the faceoff X, who will attend Providence College.
Things have been non-stop on the recruiting front, folks.
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East Hampton’s Austin Heneveld has it all.
And Heneveld has the strength, shot, size and quickness to make a big impact at Navy.
The 6-foot-1, 187-pound lefty attackman, who was also a football standout for East Hampton, is the latest subject of our new “Recruit spotlight extra” series.
You can check out an archive of the more than 100 players from throughout the Hudson Valley/Long Island/Connecticut region with their profiles up by clicking here.
You can view our archive of more than 100 player spotlights by clicking here.
Earlier this month, Pleasantville goaltending standout Conor Fraylick joined the growing list of players from the Hudson Valley/Long Island/Fairfield area to join second-year coach Andy Copelan’s program at Fairfield by committing to the Stags.
For more, check out the latest installment of our “Recruit spotlight extra” feature.
Harry Razook, a standout attackman for Rye Country Day, has decided he will continue his lacrosse career at Division III power Washington and Lee.
You can find out more by reading the latest installment of our “Recruit spotlight extra” feature.
• You can view our archive of more than 100 player spotlights by clicking here.
You can view our archive of more than 100 player spotlights by clicking here.
On Tuesday night, yet another one of those players spotlighted, Mahopac 6-foot-1, 175-pound senior midfield standout Chase Thompson (pictured above), committed to Division III power Franklin & Marshall.
Now, you can find out more by reading the latest installment of our “Recruit spotlight extra” feature.
Following our “Breaking recruiting news” updates, you can learn more about the commitments we have been reporting on.
Next up is Irvington senior midfielder Jake Bernard, who will be playing his college lax at the College of Wooster in Ohio.
We continue to follow up with our “Breaking recruiting news” updates by taking more in-depth looks at the commitments we have been reporting on.
Next up is Clarkstown South standout Sean Day, who committed to Union College in Schenectady earlier this week.
Joey Porcelli, a quick and aggressive midfielder, will be
the latest Yorktown Husker to play at Wesleyan.
(File photo by Jim Stout/MaxPreps.com)
Yorktown senior midfielder Joey Porcelli had plenty of reasons to commit to Wesleyan University, in addition to the fact that it’s recently become a pipeline for current and recently graduated Husker players.
Matt Shannon had his pick of Division I programs.
The junior defenseman from defending FCIAC champion Ridgefield had made unofficial visit to Hofstra, Fairfield, Towson and Syracuse, and was planning on visiting Loyola and possibly Notre Dame as well.
But that all changed last weekend. That’s when the 6-foot-4 Shannon visited North Carolina.
“I loved the campus from the second I arrived,” said Shannon, who has given a verbal commitment to join the Tar Heels as a freshman in 2011-12.
Briarcliff senior midfielder Troy Press will be taking
his skills and athleticism to Division II
Wingate University in North Carolina.
National signing week is now officially history, gang.
We, of course, brought you real-time updates on all the commitments (and even decommitments) as they happened these last few months. We’ve also put together a rundown of who’s going where among players in the nation’s top lacrosse hotbed — the Hudson Valley/Long Island/Connecticut region. Be sure to check it out by clicking here.
One of the players included is Briarcliff midfielder Troy Press, who will be taking his skills and athleticism to Division II Wingate University in Wingate, N.C.
We’ve been passing along news these last few months about the commitments of the top seniors and juniors from the Hudson Valley/Long Island/Connecticut region.
Programs such as Ward Melville, Manhasset, Yorktown, John Jay, Somers, Ridgefield and Darien are well represented, of course.
But on Monday, we told you about a couple of players — both attackmen, in fact — from a school that has not exactly been synonymous with college recruits.
Until now, that is.
We’ve reported on recruiting commitments as they’ve been made throughout the year.
Today, senior players from sea to shining sea started to make those commitments official — and binding.
The NCAA’s fall signing period got under way today and continues through Nov. 18.
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I have a feeling you’re going to be hearing a lot about Arlington High School in the coming years.
With one of the largest enrollments of any high school in the state, I have thought for a long time that the Admirals could be a sleeping giant.
As the popularity of lacrosse has continued to surge, so too has interest in the program in the community.
That is now beginning to become evident on the recruiting front.
Derek Katchis, one of the top defensemen at the
2008 Empire State Games, will take his skills to Colgate.
Derek Katchis emerged as one of the top defensemen in Section 1 during his career at Horace Greeley, which also included playing on the 2008 Empire State Games.
Now, he’s ready to take his game to the next level.
Katchis, now in the midst of a post-grad year at the Deerfield Academy in Massachusetts, informed me late tonight that he has given a verbal commitment to Colgate University.
John Jay’s Mike Daniello is the ninth-ranked junior
in the nation by Inside Lacrosse.
(File photo by Jim Stout/MaxPreps.com)
John Jay’s Mike Daniello, one of the top junior recruits in the nation, has done some soul-searching after verbally committing to attend North Carolina on Sept. 28 and has decided to change his commitment and attend Johns Hopkins.
Bronxville attackman/midfielder Joe Wood committed
last night to Division III power Washington and Lee.
Joe Wood of Bronxville is a versatile player who can play both attack and midfield.
And at this time next year, he will be playing for the Washington and Lee Generals.
Mike Daniello, right, the No. 9-ranked junior in the nation,
will be playing his college lacrosse at North Carolina.
(File photo by Jim Stout/MaxPreps.com)
It was decision day for Mike Daniello.
I just got off the phone with the John Jay attackman moments after he contacted the final list of schools he was considering.
The first call he made was to North Carolina. Daniello, the No. 9-ranked junior in the nation by Inside Lacrosse, has given a verbal commitment to accept a scholarship offer from the Tar Heels.
As summer turns to fall, you can expect the recruiting commitments to continue to roll in.
And as you know by now, they can happen at any time — day or night.
So keep checking back here throughout the day and evening for all the latest.
If you checked the comments portion of our 24/7 “Breaking recruiting news” thread late last night, you learned that Mamaroneck goaltender Matt Weiner has committed to Union College.
I couldn’t publish this till now.
The reason?
Well, I couldn’t exactly present an “Early fall commitment rundown” until it was actually early fall. (OK, OK, fall won’t officially be arriving till early Tuesday morning, but that’s close enough.)
Now it is.
Hen Hud’s Bobby Sincero also drew recruiting interest from Colgate, Brown, Manhattan, Middlebury, Colby, Nazareth, Washington College, Clark and Lynchburg.
I think I know a trend when I see one, folks.
The commitment of Hen Hud senior goaltender Bobby Sincero to attend Army marks the third Section 1 player from the Class of 2010 that is bound for West Point.
Stephen Burke spent most of last season sidelined with an injury.
So the Yorktown senior had to make up for lost time over the summer in order to land a spot with a collegiate program.
Burke managed to do just that. He has given a verbal commitment to join Division II national champion C.W. Post.
Army has landed another top senior from the Hudson Valley in John Jay’s Will O’Donnell.
Rising junior defenseman Eddie Schurr will become
the first player in Somers history to attend Johns Hopkins.
(File photo by Jim Stout/MaxPreps.com)
It didn’t take long for one of the top juniors in the region to make a college commitment.
And it’s a big one.
Just five days after Division I coaches became allowed to contact current juniors, Somers defenseman Eddie Schurr has given a verbal commitment to Johns Hopkins.
John Jay rising junior Mike Daniello has his pick of virtually every Division I program.
(File photo by Jim Stout/MaxPreps.com)
Today was the first day Division I college coaches could contact high school juniors, and it didn’t take long to see who the most prized recruit in the region is.
Not that there were too many doubts.
It’s John Jay attackman Mike Daniello.
Bronxville’s Chris Walsh is a dodging
lefty attackman with strong stick skills.
Wesleyan has landed another commitment from one of the top rising senior attackmen in Section 1. Bronxville lefty Chris Walsh has committed to join the program, which is one of the tops in Division III.
First things first.
Tomorrow is Sept. 1.
If you’re familiar with recruiting — and/or a reader of this blog — I don’t have to tell you what that means.
Defenseman George Benitez of Darien will be playing
his college lacrosse at Division I Stony Brook.
George Benitez is one of four rising seniors for five-time state champion Darien that have committed to college programs. The defenseman is headed to Stony Brook University.
Lacrosse is not exactly front and center on Greg D’Arienzo’s mind these days.
Who can blame him? After all, the rising senior from Carey High School in Franklin Square is busy preparing for the football season.
Last season, he rushed for 1,300 yards and 11 touchdowns and earned all-Nassau County honors.
With the summer now all but over, let’s take a look at some of the major college commitments among top rising seniors from Long Island.
Well gang, we continue to follow the recruiting commitments around the clock.
And I just got word of another one.
John Jay rising senior Fletcher Franklin, whose strong play in goal down the stretch helped the Indian make their sixth straight sectional final appearance, has committed to Division III Kenyon in Gambier, Ohio.
St. John’s just landed a commitment from another one of the region’s top players.
Rising senior attackman/midfielder Ryan Fitzgerald of Class C sectional champion Putnam Valley has given a verbal commitment to join the Red Storm next year.
Mahopac’s Okie Bernabo ended a busy
summer of lacrosse by deciding on a college.
(File photo by Jim Stout/MaxPreps.com)
Rising senior Okie Bernabo of Mahopac has made his college choice.
The versatile midfielder has decided to join C.W. Post, which won the Division II title this past season.
Rye rising senior Cole McCormack, one of
the top all-around players in the state,
is bound for NCAA finalist Cornell.
(File photo by Jim Stout/MaxPreps.com)
One of the top rising seniors in the state, Rye midfielder Cole McCormack, just informed me that he has given a verbal commitment to attend 2009 NCAA Division I finalist Cornell.
Through the end of this past season, an amazing 51 West Islip players were playing college lacrosse.
Look for that trend to continue. In a moment, we’ll recap all the Lions who will join programs this fall.
But first, we have news of a rising senior commitment for West Islip, which has won three Class A state titles the last four years.
FCIAC champion Ridgefield should have at least five college-bound rising seniors. Two have already committed and three others are weighing their options.
Read more in the second page of this post, and be sure to check back here every day of the latest breaking recruiting news.
John Brandofino of Mahopac is the latest rising senior
from the region to commit to a college.
(File photo by Jim Stout/MaxPreps.com)
Mahopac’s John Brandofino, one of the region’s top attackmen, has given a verbal commitment to attend Division II national power New York Institute of Technology.
Yorktown’s Remy Lieberman will be joining former
‘Husker teammates John Froats and Brett Cabriele
at Division III power Wesleyan.
(File photo by Jim Stout/MaxPreps.com)
Remy Lieberman, a two-year starting attackman for Yorktown, has made his college choice.
The rising senior will attend Division III power Wesleyan, where he will join former teammates John Froats, the 2009 NESCAC rookie of the year, and incoming freshman Brett Cabriele.
Attackman/midfielder Bryan Annecchino
of Darie is bound for Providence.
(File photo by Jim Stout/MaxPreps.com)
Four rising seniors from five-time state champion Darien have made college commitments.
For a rundown, check the second page of this post.
Yorktown rising senior goaltender Derek Koelsch,
who performed well in several summer showcase events,
has committed to Trinity in Hartford, Conn.
The recruiting commitments continue to come in on a daily basis, folks.
Just moments ago, one of the top rising senior goaltenders in the region, Yorktown’s Derek Koelsch, committed to attend Trinity College, an elite Division III program both academically and athletically.
Be sure to read Derek’s thoughts on the jump.
Somers all-section attackman Greg Petre
just gave an oral commitment to attend Army.
(File photo by Jim Stout/MaxPreps.com)
• Check the second page of this post for a Q&A with Greg Petre.
Brandon Merlino, John Jay’s standout
midfielder, has made his college choice.
(File photo by Jim Stout/MaxPreps.com)
John Jay rising senior Brandon Merlino is on a family vacation to his grandfather’s native Sicily today.
But that didn’t stop him from taking time out to make one of the most important decisions of his life.
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