The 2013 season may have been Tom Rotanz’s last after 19 years as head coach at Long Island power Shoreham-Wading River High School. Rotanz reportedly was given the option of coaching for one final season by school officials, but declined, according to a report published today by the Riverhead News Review. Rotanz has led the […]

National Letter of Intent Fall Signing Week lasts from Nov. 13 to Nov. 20. NLIs must be attached to athletic scholarships, so committed players to Division I programs that do not award athletic scholarships (such as the Ivy League and military academies), as well as commited players to Division III programs, do not sign NLIs […]

For Anthony Stavrakis, the key to success as a goaltender comes down to the three C’s. That is, being consistent, calm and composed. “My greatest strength as a player is my ability to be consistent in cage,” said the 2014 standout at Hillsborough High Schoool (N.J.). “I think that I stay calm and composed in […]

With National Letter of Intent Fall Signing Week starting on Wednesday, Nov. 13, we’ll be spotlighting the Class of 2014. For now, we have more on a big 2015 verbal commitment that was first reported yesterday by Joe Lombardi on LaxLessons.com’s Lacrosse Insider premium coverage section. It comes from Connecticut and Bethel High School attackman/midfield […]

Let’s take a sneak peek at what Division I colleges are currently leading the way in total number of tristate commits. Sacred Heart – 11 Syracuse – 8 Cornell – 8 Binghamton – 7 Bryant – 7 Hobart – 7 Quinnipiac – 7 Stony Brook – 7 Army – 6 Albany – 5 Fairfield – […]

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The Yorktown-to-UMBC connection is in full effect. Last week, we told you that 2015 midfielder Ryan Baker from Yorktown High School (N.Y.) had verbally committed to UMBC. Yesterday, came word, via LaxLessons.com’s Lacrosse Insider premium coverage section, that one of the top defenders in the Hudson Valley, YHS senior longstick midfielder Tomas Rodriguez, became the […]

We’re less than 48 hours away from the start of National Letter of Intent Fall Signing Week, and we’ve had a flurry of news and commitments this afternoon. We start with a development not related to Signing Week. Stony Brook University was cited for scoring one of the recruiting coups of the Class of 2013 […]

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James Werner is the youngest of four boys. All three of his brothers played lacrosse at the school Werner now attends, Fordham Prep (N.Y.). Two of them, Billy (Class of 2003) and Robert (’09), played goaltender, the position James plays. The oldest brother, John (’01), played defense. “I wanted to follow in their footsteps and […]

You’d be hard-pressed to find more of a true lacrosse family right now than the Maloneys in Victor, N.Y. Father John started it all. He played at East Syracuse Minoa High School and the SUNY Geneseo. Oldest son John Jr., a sophomore midfielder at the University at Albany, was named to the America East all-rookie […]

National Letter of Intent Fall Signing Week is Nov. 13-20. NLIs must be attached to athletic scholarships, so committed players to Division I programs that do not award athletic scholarships (such as the Ivy League and military academies), as well as commited players to Division III programs, do not sign NLIs to make their verbal […]

Richie Lenskold faced some tough competition long before joining the varsity team at New Jersey power Bridgewater-Raritan High School. Lenskold, after all, is the second of four boys in his family – ages 20, 17, 14 and 11. Oldest brother Brian is a junior at Rutgers. “We all love lacrosse and are all faceoff midfielders,” […]

Happy Sunday. It’s the busiest day of the fall travel season. There are a total of four events on the schedule today, with two being held in the nation’s No. 1 hotbed for lacrosse, the New York/New Jersey/Connecticut tristate region. Those two events are the National Invitational 175 Fall Select  at Avon Old Farms School […]

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What Ivy League team leads in Class of 2015 commitments from the nation’s No. 1 hotbed for lacrosse, the New York/New Jersey/Connecticut tristate region? If you guessed the University of Pennsylvania, you would be correct. The Quakers now have four junior verbals from the tristate. The latest comes from the Garden State and powerhouse program […]

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With Fall National Letter of Intent Signing Week set to start on Wednesday, Nov. 13, we’ll have the most up-t0-date rundown of all Class of 2014 college commits by high school. One school that will be near the top of the list is Sachem North (N.Y.). The Flaming Arrows now have nine 2014 verbals, with […]

It wasn’t too long ago when we broke the news that Ridgewood High School (N.J.) midfielder Cooper Telesco had given a verbal commitment to Cornell’s admissions process. Since then, Cornell has quickly added two more verbals from the nation’s No. 1 hotbed for lacrosse, the New York/New Jersey/Connecticut tristate region. We told you earlier this […]

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