Lacrosse Insider
We start this week with a preview of coming attractions. You may have noticed that we have launched our sixth annual “Preseason Player’s Perspectives” in which some of the top players take a look ahead to the upcoming varsity season. We started first with a player coming off a team that won its first-ever state […]
We’re just a day away from the annual celebration in which American give thanks — and enjoy some turkey, too. In the meantime, a handful of standouts from the NY/NJ/CT tristate hotspot gave verbal commitments to major Division I college programs. So let’s get to that news on this Thanksgiving Eve. We begin with latest […]
One of the commitments we have in this latest report comes from a high school that is enjoying a very special — and meaningful — football season. As we reported on Oct. 2, Tom Cutinella (pictured above), a football/lacrosse player for Shoreham-Wading River HS (NY), died in a game against Elwood-John Glenn after suffering a […]
Staples has emerged as one of the top boys lacrosse programs in Connecticut since the start of the new decade. Today, the Wreckers’ lax squad provided the entire school with a historic first. For the first time in any sport, a Staples High School freshman has given a verbal commitment to play at the collegiate level. […]
Well, folks, Fall Signing Week 2014 is now one for the books. And what a week it was. If you were following along on the “Lax With Joe” blog, you’ve seen daily photo galleries. You can get caught up right here, right now. Needless to say, for so many student-athletes, it’s the most memorable moment […]
While seniors from both the NY/NJ/CT tristate region, and beyond the nation’s No. 1 hotspot for lacrosse, continue to put pen to paper to make their verbal commitments to collegiate programs that offer scholarships official during National Letter of Intent Fall Signing Week, we continue to see many verbals from the classes of 2016, ’17 and […]
It’s been like Election Night here in the newsroom since the start of Fall Signing Week on Wednesday. While we’ve been bringing you a steady stream of signing photos, it’s also been extremely active in terms of verbal commitments by both seniors and non-seniors. So let’s get right to it, shall we? Let’s begin with the […]
National Letter of Intent Fall Signing Week starts on Wednesday. Here, it’s the culmination of literally years of getting the word out about verbal commitments that, in many cases over the next seven days, will become binding written agreements. For us, it’s always been about celebrating this special moment — an unparalleled turning point — in […]
We a Class of 2016 verbal, which comes after a decommitment, and three Class of 2017 commitments in this latest update. So let’s get right to it. We begin with the sophomore class where Christian Brothers Academy (NJ) attackman Nick Casner has decided on Siena. It’s a huge get for the Saints. Casner also drew interest from Cornell, […]
If you been with us in recent days, you know Penn State University and head coach Jeff Tambroni have been having in picking up commitments from the Class of 2018. We told you here a pair of NY standouts — longstick midfielder CJ Battaglia of Webster Thomas and midfielder Michael Giaquinto of Ward Melville — had […]
If it seems like we’ve been reporting on almost as many decommitments as we have new commitments, it’s because, we’ll we pretty much have been. Such is the nature of today’s accelerated recruiting process, as we’ve detailed numerous times in this space. We have two new decommitments to report in this latest update. We begin […]
Our latest Class of 2018 verbal commitment from the nation’s No. 1 hotspot for lacrosse, the New York/New Jersey/Connecticut tristate region, is front and center in this latest update. We also have one Class of 2017, one 2016 commitment and four Class of 2015 commits from the hotspot. So let’s get right to it. We […]
With the accelerated recruiting process, decommitments are becoming almost routine these days. Less than 24 hours after we brought you a Q&A with Smithtown East HS (NY) standout attackman Brian Willetts on his decommitment from North Carolina and subsequent commitment to Notre Dame, we have news of another decommitment from a tristate standout. Bergen Catholic […]
Fairfield University is located on the eastern edge of a county that is home base for most of Connecticut’s premier programs, including defending state champions Darien and Greenwich as well as New Canaan, Ridgefield, Wilton and several private school powers, including Brunswick. But all three of the Stags’ Class of 2017 tristate commits have come […]
The list of commits in the Class of 2018 continues to climb and has now reached eight. The latest verbal came today from one of the top up-and-coming players in the nation’s No. 1 hotspot for lacrosse, the NY/NJ/CT tristate region. Syracuse University got a big treat this Halloween from a lethal attackman who can do […]
