John Gallant is a

lacrosse Lacrosse is a team sport played with a lacrosse stick and a lacrosse ball. It is the oldest organized sport in North America, with its origins with the indigenous people of North America as early as the 12th century. The game was extensively ...

player and captain of the

Colorado Mammoth The Colorado Mammoth are a box lacrosse team playing in the National Lacrosse League. The Mammoth have played at Ball Arena in Denver, Colorado, since the 2003 season. They are owned by Stan Kroenke, who is also the owner of the Colorado Avalanch ...

in the

National Lacrosse League The National Lacrosse League (NLL) is a men's professional box lacrosse league in North America. The league is headquartered in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The NLL currently has fifteen teams: ten in the United Stat ...

. Before signing on with the Colorado Mammoth, Gallant played for the

Washington Power The Washington Power were a member of the National Lacrosse League during the 2001 and 2002 seasons. After the inaugural championship in 1987 in Baltimore (as the Thunder) through 1999 and an unsuccessful stint in Pittsburgh (as the CrosseFire), ...

for one season. He was voted to the 2007 All-star game as a reserve defenseman and helped Team Canada defend their title at the 2007

World Indoor Lacrosse Championships The World Box Lacrosse Championship (WBLC), formerly known as the World Indoor Lacrosse Championship (WILC), is an international box lacrosse tournament sponsored by World Lacrosse that is held every four years. Since the first tournament in 2003 ...

in Halifax Nova Scotia, Canada. Gallant is the only remaining player on the Colorado Mammoth to have played with the club for each of its seven seasons, and he was announced as team captain on November 16, 2009, succeeding the team's all time leading scorer,

Gavin Prout Gavin Prout (born March 13, 1978 in Whitby, Ontario) is a Canadian professional lacrosse player who plays for the Colorado Mammoth in the National Lacrosse League, and formerly of the Hamilton Nationals in Major League Lacrosse. He was also a mem ...

Statistics

NLL

External links

Player Bio Page

References

Mammoth Names 2010 Captains. {{DEFAULTSORT:Gallant, John 1978 births Canadian expatriate lacrosse people in the United States Canadian lacrosse players Colorado Mammoth players Lacrosse defenders Lacrosse people from Ontario Living people National Lacrosse League All-Stars Sportspeople from Brantford