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List Of Premier Lacrosse League Awards
Premier Lacrosse League (PLL) is an American professional field lacrosse league. The league's inaugural season debuted on June 1, 2019, and included a 14-week tour-based schedule taking place in 12 major-market cities. The PLL gave out 14 awards prior to its first championship in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on June 29, 2019. Active Awards Jim Brown Most Valuable Player Eamon McEneaney Attackman of the Year Gait Brothers Midfielder of the Year Dave Pietramala Defensive Player of the Year Brodie Merrill Long Stick Midfielder of the Year Paul Cantabene Faceoff Athlete of the Year George Boiardi Short Stick Defensive Midfielder of the Year Oren Lyons Goalie of the Year Rookie of the Year Dick Edell Coach of the Year Jimmy Regan Teammate of the Year Brendan Looney Leadership Award Dave Huntley Sportsmanship Award Welles Crowther Humanitarian Award References {{DEFAULTSORT:Premier Lacrosse League Awards Awards An award, sometimes called a distinc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Premier Lacrosse League
Premier Lacrosse League (PLL) is an American professional field lacrosse league, composed of 8 teams. The league's inaugural season debuted on June 1, 2019, and included a 14-week tour-based schedule taking place in 12 major-market cities. The league was founded by the American professional lacrosse player Paul Rabil and his brother Mike Rabil. Investors include The Chernin Group, The Raine Group and Joe Tsai. Founding In September 2018, Bloomberg reported that Paul Rabil would be launching a new professional lacrosse league. The PLL would be a direct competitor to the more established Major League Lacrosse. The new league will provide professional lacrosse players with salaries, health care, and league equity. The league's media model radically differs from that of most North American professional sports leagues. A 2018 ''Sports Illustrated'' story on the then-prospective league pointed out that LeBron James' Instagram account "features virtually no clips of him playing bask ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tom Schreiber
Tom Schreiber (born February 24, 1992), is an American professional lacrosse player with the Archers LC of the Premier Lacrosse League and the Toronto Rock of the National Lacrosse League. He attended St. Anthony's High School in South Huntington, New York, and played collegiate lacrosse at Princeton University. College career Schreiber is the all-time leading scorer from the midfield position at Princeton with 200 points and was a four-time USILA All-American including three seasons on the First Team. He won the MacLaughlin Award as the nation's most outstanding midfielder his junior and senior seasons. Professional career MLL career Schreiber was selected 1st overall in the 2014 Major League Lacrosse draft by the Ohio Machine. He was named league MVP in both the 2016 and 2017 seasons while leading the Ohio Machine to the MLL championship game in both seasons and winning the championship in 2017. NLL career Schreiber signed as an unrestricted free agent with the Toron ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kyle Harrison
Kyle Harrison (born March 12, 1983) is an American retired professional lacrosse player from Baltimore, Maryland. Currently, he serves as the PLL Director of Player Relations and Diversity Inclusion. He had a 17-year career in professional field lacrosse and played for the United States national lacrosse team twice. As a professional lacrosse player, he is a 9-time all-star, 12-time team captain and won the 2017 championship. As a college lacrosse player, he played at Johns Hopkins University and was a team captain on the team that went undefeated (16-0) to win the 2005 NCAA Division I Men's Lacrosse Championship. The same year, he was the 2005 Tewaaraton Men's Player of the Year Award recipient. In 2016, he was inducted into the Johns Hopkins University Athletics Hall of Fame, and the Baltimore Lacrosse Hall of Fame. Overall, he has had a illustrious career and has been a visible role model for many players, and has continued to be an ambassador for the sport of lacrosse at l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tim Soudan
Tim Soudan is the current Head Coach for Chrome Lacrosse Club of the Premier Lacrosse League. He joined the team after the conclusion of their 2019 season, replacing legendary coach Dom Starsia. Soudan is a former National Lacrosse League (NLL) and Major League Lacrosse (MLL) player. Soudan was one year too early before the Olympic lacrosse team was formed, and was registered as a player but injured himself making him unable to play. Soudan also played in the NLL for the Boston Blazers (1991–1994) and the Rochester Knighthawks (1995–2005), and in the MLL for the Rochester Rattlers (2001–2003). Soudan coached the Rochester Rattlers from 2011 to 2017, earning coach of the year honors in 2014 and reaching the championship final in 2014 and 2015. Playing career Field lacrosse In college, he was second team All-American at the University of Massachusetts Amherst in 1989 and 1990. He scored 84 goals for the Minutemen, the program's career record for a midfielder. UMass was 4 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andrew Copelan
Andrew "Andy" Copelan (born in Pittsford, New York) is the head coach of the Waterdogs Lacrosse Club. Previously, Copelan was the head coach of Fairfield University from 2008 to 2019. Prior to that, Copelan was an assistant coach and offensive coordinator at the Maryland Terrapins from 2006 to 2008. He was the head coach at from 2004 to 2005, where he led the Red Foxes to their first NCAA tournament appearance in 2005. Copelan is a 2003 graduate of |
Dick Edell
Richard Irving Edell (1944 – May 2, 2018) was an American lacrosse coach. He served as the head coach for the University of Maryland, United States Military Academy, and University of Baltimore's men's lacrosse teams. Edell was inducted into the US Lacrosse Hall of Fame in 2004, at which time he held the second-most NCAA tournament appearances of any head coach.Dick Edell HOF Biography , US Lacrosse, retrieved March 24, 2009. Early life Born in Maryland in 1944, Edell attended , where he played lacrosse and was named an honorable mention All-Ame ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jeff Teat
Jeffrey Steven Teat (born April 30, 1997) is a Canadian lacrosse player for Atlas Lacrosse Club of the Premier Lacrosse League and the New York Riptide of the National Lacrosse League. He is one of three players in lacrosse history to be selected first overall in both the NLL and PLL/MLL drafts. Early life and career Teat is the son of Maria and Dan Teat. Dan played fourteen seasons in the NLL and is currently an assistant coach for Panther City Lacrosse Club. Teat attended The Hill Academy, playing five seasons of lacrosse there, as well as playing Junior A lacrosse for the Brampton Excelsiors, where he recorded 145 points during the regular season in his final season, the most of any OJALL player since John Grant Jr. Teat ended the season with 211 points, including the playoffs where Brampton got to the Ontario League semifinals. Collegiate career Teat arrived at Cornell in the fall of 2016 as the number one recruit in his class according to Inside Lacrosse. With the Big ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Redwoods Lacrosse Club
The Redwoods Lacrosse Club is a professional men's field lacrosse team in Premier Lacrosse League (PLL). The Redwoods are one of the six founding members of the PLL for the 2019 season. Notable players include Matt Kavanagh, Myles Jones, Sergio Perkovic, Ryder Garnsey, Garrett Epple and Jules Heningburg. Roster Source: *Indicates player is on Unable to Travel list **Indicates player is on PUP list Coaching staff * Head coach – Nat St. Laurent * Assistant coach – Chris Collins * Assistant coach – Todd Macfarlane All Time draft selections 2019 2020 Entry Draft The 2020 player entry draft occurred on March 16 for teams to select players arriving from rival Major League Lacrosse. On March 4, Paul Burmeister and NBCSN hosted an entry draft lottery for selection order. Out of 100 balls to select from, Waterdogs had 40, Chrome had 25, Atlas had 15, Archers had 10, Chaos had 6, Redwoods had 3, and the champion Whipsnakes had 1. Rob Pannell was announced to be transferr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Danny Logan
Danny Logan (born September 30, 1997) is an American professional lacrosse player who plays as a defensive midfielder for Atlas Lacrosse Club of the Premier Lacrosse League and as a defenseman for the San Diego Seals of the National Lacrosse League. Early life and career Logan was born in Columbus, Ohio to Whitney and Karen Logan. He grew up in Upper Arlington, Ohio, where he attended Upper Arlington High School, earning four varsity letters in hockey and lacrosse. In lacrosse, he was a two-time All-American and state champion, and was named Ohio Player of the Year as a senior in 2016. His family was athletic, with both grandfathers and an uncle, Jeff Logan, having played football for Ohio State. His paternal grandfather, Dick Logan, played in the NFL for the Green Bay Packers. Another uncle, Jud Logan, represented the United States in the hammer throw at four Olympic Games, captaining the team in 1992. College career Logan played five seasons at the University of Denver as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Cantabene
Paul Cantabene (born March 26, 1970 in Rochester, New York) is a retired professional lacrosse player and face-off specialist. He is the namesake for the Premier Lacrosse League's Paul Cantabene Faceoff Athlete of the Year Award, being described as one of the most intense and hardest working players and having revolutionized the faceoff position. Playing career Cantabene attended Irondequoit High School then Loyola College in Maryland, where he was an All-American lacrosse player. Professional career In 1994, he made his professional lacrosse debut in the Major Indoor Lacrosse League with the Baltimore Thunder. He followed the franchise on its relocation to Pittsburgh and back to Washington. He then played out the rest of his indoor lacrosse career, until 2004, with the Philadelphia Wings. Cantabene joined the Baltimore Bayhawks in the inaugural season of the Major League Lacrosse. He remained with the team though 2005, helping the Bayhawks capture the Steinfeld Cup in bot ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brodie Merrill
Brodie Merrill (born November 5, 1981) is a Canadian professional lacrosse player. He currently plays in the National Lacrosse League for the San Diego Seals and Premier Lacrosse League for the Cannons. Merrill is recognized by the Premier Lacrosse League as having revolutionized the LSM position, and is the namesake for the Brodie Merrill LSM of the Year Award, being the only active PLL player to have an award named after them. High school career Merrill attended the Salisbury School in Connecticut. While attending Salisbury, he was a standout lacrosse player, and was named the New England Defensive Player of the Year, was selected to the All-New England team, and was selected as a First Team High School All-American. College career Merrill attended Georgetown University from 2002 to 2005. During his final two years, he was a First-team All-American, and won the Schmeisser Award in his senior year for defensive player of the year. During his final two seasons, Merrill was a Tew ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chrome Lacrosse Club
The Chrome Lacrosse Club is a professional men's field lacrosse team in Premier Lacrosse League (PLL). The Chrome are one of the six founding members of the PLL for the 2019 Premier Lacrosse League season, 2019 season. Roster *Indicates unavailable to travel list **Indicates PUP list Source: (C) indicates captain Coaching staff * Head coach – Tim Soudan * Assistant coach – Matt Kerwick * Assistant coach – Jacques Monte All-time draft selections 2019 Premier Lacrosse League season, 2019 2020 Premier Lacrosse League season, 2020 Entry Draft The 2020 player entry draft occurred on March 16 for teams to select players arriving from rival Major League Lacrosse. On March 4, Paul Burmeister and NBCSN hosted an entry draft lottery for selection order. Out of 100 balls to select from, Waterdogs had 40, Chrome had 25, Atlas had 15, Archers had 10, Chaos had 6, Redwoods had 3, and the champion Whipsnakes had 1. Rob Pannell was announced to be transferring to the PLL on March ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
