Cornell lacrosse 2016

[billhoward]

Inside Lacrosse sees this an an extreme rebuilding year for Cornell. Not even ranked in top 20 (actually top 24). http://www.insidelacrosse.com/article/swezey-s-way-ahead-2016-rankings/32323/1

Highlights:

01. Notre Dame
02. Denver
03. Hopkins
04. Maryland
05. Harvard
07. Syracuse
10. Yale
12. Albany
16. BU
17. Penn State
20. Brown
23. Princeton

Word on Harvard: "Something doesn't add up with the Crimson. The roster has plenty of talent and the coaching staff works hard, though it will include a couple new faces in 2016. Will the blend of old and new coaches be able to, as the British say, "stretch the enthusiasm" of their young charges? Are the players even interested in taking advisement from their elders? A monster senior class might well do some big things in 2016."

[phillysportsfan]

That and with another year of Bill Courtney guess next year will be an even worse year for Cornell sports

[ithacat]

That and with another year of Bill Courtney guess next year will be an even worse year for Cornell sports

There's always hockey.

[Johnny 5]

That and with another year of Bill Courtney guess next year will be an even worse year for Cornell sports

There's always hockey.

Funny, but during hockey season I often find myself mumbling, "Well, there's always lacrosse".

::help::

[heykb]

Where's the Like button? I'd click it.

[Swampy]

So it begins, Men's Lacrosse Announces Class of 2019

[billhoward]

On paper, another outstanding freshman class. On the field, time will tell. Interesting that there are no players from New Jersey or upstate New York, unless Pleasantville has become upstate. Good luck to them.

[Chris '03]

On paper, another outstanding freshman class. On the field, time will tell. Interesting that there are no players from New Jersey or upstate New York, unless Pleasantville has become upstate. Good luck to them.

Yay Pleasantville! A town with no lacrosse programs at all 15 or so years ago.  Welch to Hackley though... and won All-Ivy honors?

Sam Welch – M – 5-11/17
Pleasantville, N.Y. (Hackley School)
Welch earned four varsity letters at Hackley School, serving as team captain as a senior. A three-time first-team All-Ivy League selection, he was also selected to the Senior All-Star team and won the 2015 Bruce D. Hislop MVP award. Welch also earned four varsity letters in wrestling.

[ugarte]

On paper, another outstanding freshman class. On the field, time will tell. Interesting that there are no players from New Jersey or upstate New York, unless Pleasantville has become upstate. Good luck to them.

Yay Pleasantville! A town with no lacrosse programs at all 15 or so years ago.  Welch to Hackley though... and won All-Ivy honors?

Sam Welch – M – 5-11/17
Pleasantville, N.Y. (Hackley School)
Welch earned four varsity letters at Hackley School, serving as team captain as a senior. A three-time first-team All-Ivy League selection, he was also selected to the Senior All-Star team and won the 2015 Bruce D. Hislop MVP award. Welch also earned four varsity letters in wrestling.

Yes, the Ivy League.

[Chris '03]

On paper, another outstanding freshman class. On the field, time will tell. Interesting that there are no players from New Jersey or upstate New York, unless Pleasantville has become upstate. Good luck to them.

Yay Pleasantville! A town with no lacrosse programs at all 15 or so years ago.  Welch to Hackley though... and won All-Ivy honors?

Sam Welch – M – 5-11/17
Pleasantville, N.Y. (Hackley School)
Welch earned four varsity letters at Hackley School, serving as team captain as a senior. A three-time first-team All-Ivy League selection, he was also selected to the Senior All-Star team and won the 2015 Bruce D. Hislop MVP award. Welch also earned four varsity letters in wrestling.

Yes, the Ivy League.

Well that's not confusing at all.

[Swampy]

On paper, another outstanding freshman class. On the field, time will tell. Interesting that there are no players from New Jersey or upstate New York, unless Pleasantville has become upstate. Good luck to them.

Yay Pleasantville! A town with no lacrosse programs at all 15 or so years ago.  Welch to Hackley though... and won All-Ivy honors?

Sam Welch – M – 5-11/17
Pleasantville, N.Y. (Hackley School)
Welch earned four varsity letters at Hackley School, serving as team captain as a senior. A three-time first-team All-Ivy League selection, he was also selected to the Senior All-Star team and won the 2015 Bruce D. Hislop MVP award. Welch also earned four varsity letters in wrestling.

Yes, the Ivy League.

Well that's not confusing at all.

Well, let's hope past is prologue, and there will be three more first-team All-Ivy selections in his future. Only this time it will really be The Ivy League rather than the Ivy Preparatory School League. Then the statement about being three-time first-team All-Ivy will be true in both contexts, so the context will be moot.

[billhoward]

http://www.cornellbigred.com/news/2016/1/21/MLAX_0121160734.aspx

No more last-minute relocation to the Carrier Dome or that indoor field house in Binghamton. This Cornell-Hobart game moves to West Palm Beach, Feb. 27. One more reason to think Cornell will be getting (needs to be getting) an indoor practice / play facility. Harvard, Penn have them, Princeton is getting. Seasonal fabric dome goes up over the football field after the last game, comes down sometime in March. Big schools with a strong football tradition have permanent facilities. Army has one. Michigan has one and we've played lax there (the one-goal squeaker). http://www.cornellbigred.com/news/2016/1/21/MLAX_0121160734.aspx

Cornell is picked 15th in the pre-season poll and face-off specialist Domenic Massimilian is Cornell's lone pre-season All-America selection, to the third team. As Cornell notes in its release, it's only the second time since before 2003 that Cornell started the season outside the top ten. http://www.cornellbigred.com/index.aspx?path=mlax

[upprdeck]

when the move all the sports off campus to the athletic fields this will be easy to do.

[TimV]

So do we lose that game from the ILDN schedule?

[jeff '84]

Could have posted in Hockey too.


From Inside Lacrosse:


Former Top Recruit, Hockey Star Chad Otterman Joins Cornell


After spending the season as a member of the Big Red hockey team, former Under Armour All-American and top 10 IL recruit Chad Otterman has joined the men's lacrosse team at Cornell. He spent 2014-15 playing hockey with the South Shore Kings and Philadelphia Wings of the USPHL, and he joins Matt Kerwick's squad as a freshman eligibility-wise and began practicing with the team Monday.

At 6-3, 195 lbs., the Delbarton (N.J.) defenseman was rated No. 7 as a rising junior and No. 9 as a rising senior before making the decision to focus on hockey. He registered an assist in the Under Armour game and is remembered for an impressive performance covering Shack Stanwick at the NSCLA Champions Cup while both were on the recruiting circuit.

Otterman's arrival is an unexpected boon for a Big Red squad ranked No. 15 in the preseason Cascade/Maverik Media Poll and 2016 Face-Off Yearbook. Ty Xanders called Otterman's joining the squad "massive news."

The Big Red graduated top cover defenseman Jordan Stevens and their top four scorers, but returned face-off specialist Dominic Massimilian and goalie Christian Knight. Cornell kicks off its season by hosting Penn State and former coach Jeff Tambroni on Feb. 20.