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Glad to see Californian Logan Soelberg still on the roster. Highly regarded by Andy Shay in the Covid shortened 2020 season and then missed almost all of last year with a lower leg issue, but came back with an assist against Princeton in the NCAAs. It's certainly a tough injury to come fully back fr...

https://yalebulldogs.com/sports/mens-lacrosse/roster?path=mlax 2022-2023 roster finally up. Looks like a good one. A couple of surprises in terms of class designations as I thought Jack Stuzin was taking a semester off to qualify for a fourth year and I see David Anderson is coming in as a FY. Ander...

Agree with TLD on Christian Johnson. Mentioned last year that I really liked his footwork. He still got beaten some one on one last year but those moments were exacerbated by the teams slowness to slide, particularly out front. I thought Hackler improved dramatically on at both ends as a two way mid...

https://open.spotify.com/episode/33A8L8BVr6FnEAdIGZ4Ohn

Quint Kessnich podcast with coach Shay with an extensive discussion about this year's fall ball, and some good team insights. Worth a listen.

Anyone know if Yale is hosting any scrimmages this fall? Would love to pretend to be lost for a self-guided Tsai building tour (yea just looking for a bathroom…Oh there are porta potties outside? Must have missed them) and to huck down some Wooster st apizza. Alumni games at Reese on Sept 30 (women...

Very interesting how many early recruits Yale is looking in ... is this a change from prior years? Shay is notorious for having a strong handle on identifying the players he and his staff think have the skills and toughness to mesh effectively with the culture of Yale lacrosse that they have create...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A-tGxyxHg_E

New 2024 committ, Luke Pascal, big 6'4"" A/M frrom St. Stephens and St. Agnes, Virginia.

Albany also was in the final four in 08 or 09 as well I’m pretty sure. Or maybe 07. But marr has gotten them farther and done more than any non elite program UNC a think of. Towson, UMBC, Del, UMass, Nova, etc. just a matter of whether momentum can come back his way or he’s and the situation has go...

Per Chris Brandau twitter “ Matt Brandau, Thomas Bragg, Bryce Demuth, and Jack Ocken will all be forgoing their falls in both 2022 and 2023 while attending Yale in the spring in order to play in both spring seasons. Please credit. #d00t #RollDevs @tyxanders ” True? So the inference is the three wou...

A note in the IL game summary of the U21 game between the USA and the Haudenosaunee reports that Mikey Alexander left the game before the end of the first half with a lower extremity issue. I hope it's nothing serious for his sake and also for the sake of us Bulldog fans who are counting on Alexande...

My guess regarding Patrick's top ten is that it will include.: Maryland, Rutgers, UVA, Notre Dame, Duke, Georgetown, Cornell, Princeton, Yale and Penn. Outside of my assumptions that the Terps are still the team to beat, that Georgetown will once again get some top 3 pre-season love, and that Rutger...

Best wishes for Tom Compitello, who did an excellent job with the Bulldog offense their past two years of competition.

Brutal. This is all US Lacrosse in their never ending striving to get the sport into the Olympics. I think they would even be happy if it was just a lacrosse video game at this point. Money talks. IMHO USA Lacrosse's myopic interest is not the Olympics per se'. That's going to be, at best, a one of...

…two players atop the scoring chart in the Ontario Junior Lacrosse League are 19 and 18 years of age. Will Sheehan and Willem Firth have each played 11 games, and thanks to Firth's 6-point night in an overtime win for his Toronto Beaches over the Peterborough Lakers last night, they are tied with 5...

TDeming at LacrosseBucket shows a tenth recruit, a Canadian field and Box player named Will Sheehan. Fall enrollment also often reveals Shay adding another under the radar recruit or two that IL doesn't pick up. Appears we will be looking at another 50+ roster this coming season.

I'll venture a guess that the top six Ivies from this year will be included in next season's top 20 given all the standout players it appears that the teams have returning. Four in the top ten wouldn't surprise me either. I suppose we will have to wait for the 2022-23 rosters to come out to know for...

I don't believe any of the Elis' 2022 LSMs had previous college playing time. Stuzin showed tremendous potential, at times looking, in my opinion, like an All American. I expect the 2023 rope unit to be better. Stuzin, certainly has high-end potential, and showed himself to be a virtual ground ball...

I'll be curious to see how the Ivies and Patriots perform over the next couple of years against the ACC, BIG and Big East, given how stringent the formers' transfer policies are. Was this year's Ivy success a function of pent up excitement over being able to be playing again or is longer term team b...

Nice consolation prize.

As noted in previous comments, there is a lot of talent returning, especially young talent. Right now, I'll focus on strength and conditioning. Early in the 2022 season, in an online article, one of the ESPN talking heads (QAC) said that Yale's regimen might be too focused on strength (weight-lifti...