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Lt. Raymond J. Enners Award, Division I Player of the Year
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14 - Drew
Adams / Penn State
Class: Junior
Position: Goalkeeper
Hometown: Springfield, PA
High School: Springfield
The two
time ECAC Lacrosse League Goalie of the Year and team MVP,
Drew Adams heads into this third season with Penn State already
having established himself as one of the top goalies in the
nation. Adams will now look to anchor a young Penn State squad
that features only four` seniors and help guide Penn State
back to the post-season.
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6 - Jeremy
Blevins / UMBC
Class: Junior
Position: Goalkeeper
Hometown: Cockeysville, MD
High School: Calvert Hall
Already
has 319 career saves, the eighth-highest figure in school
history.
2007: Posted a career-best 18 saves in NCAA First Round game
at Maryland, allowing only nine Terrapin goals
Notched
a save percentage of 55.2, which ranked 24th in the nation
The goalie of record in 10 of UMBC's 11 wins last year and
has a record of 20-11 in two seasons at UMBC
Has now
started all 32 games the Retrievers have played in '06 and
'07
Recorded 16 stops and allowed only five goals in
March 3rd win over Air Force
Posted 14 saves in 11-9
win over Towson on April 4
Stopped 12 Stony Brook shots,
allowing five goals in regular season finale.
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33 - Kevin
Buchanan / Ohio State
Class: Senior
Position: Midfield
Hometown: Cockeysville, MD
High School: Calvert Hall College
Ohio State
Career: Team captain for 2008 ... 2008 Face-Off Yearbook Preseason
All-American Honorable Mention selection and named to the
publication's Preseason All-GWLL team ... two-time first team
all-conference selection ... enters senior year with 99 career
points and a 29-game scoring streak, dating back to May 1,
2005 ... has started 40-of-41 career games ... three-time
Ohio State Scholar-Athlete and two-time Academic All-Big Ten
choice ... co-winner of team's Outstanding Freshman award
in 2005, Offensive MVP honoree in 2006 and Team MVP in 2007
... two-time GWLL Player of the Week.
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40 - Matt
Danowski / Duke
Class: Senior
Position: Attack
Hometown: Farmingdale, NY
High School: Farmingdale
Preseason
First Team All-America pick ... National Player of the Year
candidate ... returning consensus National Player of the Year
as the 2007 recipient of the Tewaaraton Trophy and the USILA's
Lt. Raymond J. Enners Award ... charted as the top overall
attackman in the nation by Inside Lacrosse magazine ... team
captain for the second straight year ... Duke's all-time leading
scorer with 256 career points on 129 goals and 127 assists
... has led the Blue Devils in scoring in each of the past
four seasons ... has twice paced the country in total scoring
with 92 points in 2005 and 96 in 2007 ... has twice led the
country in assists with 42 in 2005 and 52 in 2007 ... one
of two players in NCAA history to register multiple single-season
scoring totals of 90+ points, joining Cornell's Mike French,
who accomplished the feat three times in 1974, 1975 and 1976
... ranks tied for 15th on the NCAA's all-time scoring chart,
87 points shy of the all-time leader, Joe Vasta of Air Force
who compiled 343 points on 173 goals and 170 assists from
1983-86 ... is tied for 25th on the NCAA's career list for
assists ... needs 21 goals and 23 assists to become just the
third player in NCAA history to amass 150+ goals and 150+
assists in a career, joining Vasta and Michael Powell of Syracuse
... already one of just eight players in NCAA history to record
125+ goals and 125+ assists in a career ... the nation's active
leader in both assists and total points ... enters 2007 having
recorded at least one point in 42 consecutive games dating
back to the 2005 season, the longest active streak in the
country ... begins final campaign having scored at least one
goal in 20 straight contests ... combines with Zack Greer
to form the nation's most prolific goal-scoring tandem in
the country with a career combined average of 5.06 goals per
contest ... two-time choice for the USILA's Lt. Col. J. I.
(Jack) Turnbull Award in 2005 and 2007 as the nation's top
attackman ... two-time USILA First Team All-America selection
in 2005 and 2007 ... one of just four two-time first team
All-America honorees in Duke lacrosse history ... biding to
become the first three-time first team All-America selection
in school history and just the eighth in ACC history ... two-time
ACC Player of the Year pick in 2005 and 2007 ... one of just
three two-time picks for the top conference honor, joining
Joe Walters of Maryland and Ryan Wade of North Carolina ...
one of just three players in ACC history to earn both Rookie
and Player of the Year honors, joining Walters and Michael
Watson of Virginia ... along with Walters, is one of just
two players in ACC history to receive the Rookie of the Year,
Player of the Year and Tournament MVP awards ... has started
all 61 games in his Duke career ... has helped Duke to a four-year
ledger of 45-16 ... over the past three seasons, has guided
the Blue Devils to a 40-8 overall ledger including an 11-2
record versus ACC opponents with a pair of appearances in
the NCAA championship game ... has registered at least one
point in 59-of-61 career games, scoring at least one goal
in 55-of-61 career games ... has scored three or more goals
in 20 career games ... owns career per game averages of 2.12
goals, 2.08 assists and 4.20 points ... one of just five players
in ACC history and 34 players in NCAA history to compile 100
or more goals and 100 or more assists in a career ... one
of just nine players nationally to have played in the last
10 seasons (1998-07) to reach the 100+ goal, 100+ assist landmark
... one of just five players in NCAA history to post 50+ goals
and 40+ assists in a single season ... one of just four players
in NCAA history to post 40+ goals and 50+ assists in a single
season ... only player in NCAA history to have both one 50-goal,
40-assist season and one 40-goal, 50-assist season in a career
... on the Duke career charts, ranks first in points, tied
for fifth in goals and first in assists ... on the ACC's career
charts, ranks second in points, tied for 13th in goals and
sixth in assists ... stands just 24 points shy of the ACC
all-time record of 280 held by Stan Cockerton of N.C. State
... is 32 assists shy of matching the ACC record for career
assists, a mark currently held by Tim Whiteley of Virginia
(159) ... owns the Duke and ACC single-season records for
points with 96 in 2007 ... has registered 24 points on 12
goals and 12 assists in five career ACC Tournament games ...
three-time ACC All-Tournament selection in 2004, 2005 and
2007 and 2007 ACC Tournament MVP ... has recorded 45 points
on 21 goals and 24 assists in eight career NCAA Tournament
games ... two-time selection to the NCAA All-Tournament team
in 2005 and 2007 ... holds Duke career record for points in
NCAA Tournament action ... guided the Blue Devils to an NCAA
single-season record 17 wins in both 2005 and 2007 ... has
helped Duke to the top two winning streaks in school history
- an 11-game run in 2005 and 12-game stretch in 2007 ... has
led the Blue Devils to a nation's-best 40 victories over the
past three seasons ... helped Duke to its first number one
national ranking in the USILA poll (2007) as well as the program's
first number one seed in the NCAA Tournament (2007) ... has
twice finished in the top three of the balloting for the ACC's
McKevlin Award, an honor presented annually to the top male
student-athlete in the league (2nd in 2005 & 3rd in 2007)
... father, John, was named Duke's head lacrosse coach on
July 21, 2006 ... is one of eight players in NCAA history
to participate in the NCAA Tournament with his father as the
team's head coach ... pairs with his father to form the only
father-son tandem in NCAA history to each post 50+ assists
in a single-season with the elder Danowski registering 54
for Rutgers in 1973 and the younger with 52 in 2007 ... graduated
from Duke on May 13, 2007 with a degree in history ... currently
pursuing a master's degree in liberal studies ... missed fall
practice after undergoing surgery on September 11 to repair
a torn Lis Franc ligament in his right foot ... ACC Academic
Honor Roll selection
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4 - Adam
Fullerton / Army
Class: Senior
Position: Goalkeeper
Hometown: Liverpool, NY
High School: Liverpool (USMAPS)
Inside
Lacrosse Preseason All-Patriot League pick ... solid stopper
... expected to contribute to clearing game ... does good
job around the goal ...good stick-handler ... moves well outside
the cage ... good size ... plays the angles well and is aggressive
in the crease ... gained tremendous amount of confidence and
experience after winning the No. 1 job when senior Matt Darak
went down to injury his freshman year ... rewrote Army's freshman
goalkeeping record book ... set three school records for plebe
goalies ... has the ability to make the big save ... year
at USMA Prep School served him well ... two-year letterwinner.
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9 - Danny
Glading / Virginia
Class: Junior
Position: A/M
Hometown: Bethesda, MD
High School/Previous College: Georgetown Prep
WORTH
NOTING: Played at an elevated level during the fall ... has
gotten much bigger since last season and is poised to become
an offensive force this season ... preseason first-team All-American
by Face-off Yearbook ... rated the nation's No. 8 player by
Inside Lacrosse ... has ranked in the top 10 in the ACC in
scoring, goals and assists his first two years ... one of
three players on the team with at least 50 career goals ...
was the only freshman in the country (and the sixth in UVA
history) to score 20 goals and 20 assists in 2006.
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1 - Joey
Kemp / Notre Dame
Class: Senior
Position: Goalkeeper
Hometown: Potomac, MD
High School: Georgetown Prep School
A two-time
All-America honoree ... STX/USILA honorable mention All-America
selection as a sophomore and junior ... named the 2007 Great
Western Lacrosse League (GWLL) player of the year ... led
the nation with a .652 save percentage as a freshman ... three-time
all-GWLL member ... two-time team captain ... carries a career
7.43 goals-against average and a .618 save percentage to go
along with a 26-11 record ... currently ranks first in program
history in career goals-against average ... third in school
history in career victories ... in Notre Dame history, ranks
third in career minutes played for a goaltender (2211:40),
third in games started at goaltender (39), third in ground
balls for a goaltender (95) and fifth in career winning percentage
(.702) ... GWLL rookie of the year in 2005 ... one of the
best goalies in college lacrosse ... possesses a great demeanor
for a goalie ... has improved all aspects of his game, specifically
clearing ... three-time monogram winner ... earned All-America
honors while at Georgetown Prep School, one of the top high
school teams in the country ... brother, C.J. Kemp, was the
2002 GWLL player of the year for Fairfield ... first Potomac
native to play lacrosse for the Irish ... wears same No. 1
jersey sported by Notre Dame career saves leader Rob Simpson
('85).
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9 - Paul
Rabil - Johns Hopkins
Class: Senior
Position: Midfield
Hometown: Gaithersburg, MD
High School: DeMatha
Statistically
Speaking - Now has career totals of 75 goals and 53 assists
for 128 points o Has 14 goals and 20 assists for 34 points
in 10 NCAA Tournament games o 20 assists in the NCAA Tournament
is already just one shy of JHU's career record (21, Kevin
Boland) and 34 points are just six shy of JHU's career record
(40, Mike O'Neill) o Has registered at least one point in
43 of 47 career games and has 35 multi-point games and 25
mulit-goal games.
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6 - Ben
Rubeor - Virginia
Class: Senior
Position: A-A
Hometown: Towson, MD
High School/Previous College: Loyola
WORTH
NOTING: One of the nation's top players, rated No. 3 by Inside
Lacrosse ... a finalist for the Tewaaraton Trophy last season
and a leading candidate for the award this season ... preseason
first-team All-American and preseason first-team All-ACC by
Face-off Yearbook. ... chosen a team captain for the second
time ... also an excellent student who was a third-team Academic
All-America last year ... named to the All-ACC Academic men's
lacrosse team the last two years and the ACC Honor Roll three
times ... tied with Roddy Marino for 13th in Virginia history
with 160 career points ... needs two goals to become only
the 10th player in school history to score 100 goals; currently
ranked 11th.
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42 - Max
Seibald - Cornell
Class: Junior
Position: Midfield
Hometown: Hewlett, NY
High School: Hewlett
Tambroni
on Seibald: "Max brings a completely different element
to the game athletically. When we need a big play, he's the
one to provide the spark. He is one of the most exciting players
in the country." At Cornell: Seibald became the first
Cornell men's lacrosse player to be named a finalist for the
Tewaaraton Trophy, and was just the fourth second-year player
ever to earn that distinction. One of the most consistent
players for the Big Red, he has registered at least one point
in Cornell's last 19 games, dating back to the Big Red's 4-3
win against Princeton on April 22, 2006. The unanimous 2006
Ivy League Rookie of the Year, Seibald finished his sophomore
season as a first-team All-American and a unanimous first-team
All-Ivy selection. He saw action in all 16 games, making 14
starts and finished the year ranked third on the team with
20 assists. He added 17 goals for a total of 37 points on
the season. He had 10 multi-point games and picked up 36 ground
balls, including a career-high six vs. Albany. One of his
biggest goals in the 2007 season came vs. No. 18 Syracuse
as he scored with only four seconds remaining to lift Cornell
to a 16-15 victory over the Orange in the Carrier Dome. Seibald
was also considered one of the heroes of the Big Red's NCAA
quarterfinal overtime victory against Albany as he forced
a turnover to give Cornell the ball back with 10 seconds to
play, setting up the game-winning goal. Seibald had a breakout
rookie campaign and became just the third-ever Cornell freshman
to be named an All-American, as he received second-team honors.
A first-team All-Ivy selection, he finished the season ranked
fifth on the team with 33 points on the strength of 19 goals
and 14 assists. His 14 assists eclipsed the freshman single-season
record at Cornell, surpassing Anthony Pavone (11 in 1992).
Seibald was also the second-highest point-scoring freshman
midfielder in the nation that season. He was named the Ivy
League Rookie of the Week twice, earning back-to-back honors
on April 10 and April 17. Seibald had his best performance
of the year vs. Syracuse when he scored three goals and added
two assists for a career-high five points. He registered multiple
points in 10 games and tallied at least one point in all but
two games. Seibald was also good off the ground, picking up
26 ground balls on the season.
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