Dartmouth 2021

[MDlaxfan76]

Opening the 2021 thread:

From Coach Callahan.

Dear Friends,

I am thrilled to announce the incoming class of Dartmouth men's lacrosse players. This group of 12 young men will provide help in key areas on the field, as well as being positive additions off the field. They will be a valuable piece to our program’s success and I am excited to see what they are able to help us accomplish.

Logan Tucker
Hometown/High School: Greenwich, CT. / The Lawrenceville School
Club: Sweetlax Florida
Position: Face-off
Height/Weight: 6-1 / 200
Accolades: Lettered in lacrosse, wrestling, and crew in high school career. 2019 New Jersey Under Armour Underclassman All-American. Midnight madness attendee.
Highlight Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EWRjMUG ... e=youtu.be

Hunter Binney
Hometown/High School: Carlsbad, CA. / La Costa Canyon High School
Club: SoCal Bulls / West Coast Stars
Position: Goalie
Height/Weight: 5-11 / 170
Accolades: Lettered in lacrosse and football in high school career. 2018 West Under Armour Underclassman All-American. 2020 La Costa Canyon Male Athlete of the year. 2020 High School Sports Association Scholar Athlete of the Year for La Costa Canyon. 2020 Adrenaline Lacrosse All American. Junior year Lacrosse Co-Unsung hero. Senior year Football William Bennet Most Inspirational Player. Senior year Football 2nd Team All Avacado League Strong Safety. Senior year Football Dr. Pepper Most Inspirational Player 2019. Six-Time LCC Scholar Athlete. Four-Time San Diego Union Tribune All-Academic Team.
Highlight Video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BcD8UEBnav8

Jack Cooleen
Hometown/High School: Princeton, NJ. / The Lawrenceville School
Club: Leading Edge
Position: Defense
Height/Weight: 6-6 / 242
Accolades: Lettered in lacrosse, basketball, and football in high school career. 2019 and 2018 New Jersey Under Armour Underclassman All-American. New Jersey top 50 list Freshman, Sophomore, and Junior years. Senior year top players watch list in New Jersey.
Highlight Video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f690spn ... e=youtu.be

Blake Brookes
Hometown/High School: Boston, MA. / Belmont Hill School
Club: Laxachuesetts
Position: Defense
Height/Weight: 6-4 / 218
Accolades: Lettered in lacrosse, basketball, and football in high school career.
2018 New England Under Armour Underclassman All-American. Junior Year Lacrosse All ISL League. Junior Year Boston Lacrosse All American.
Highlight Video https://www.hudl.com/video/3/5410947/5e ... 1090d37466

Peter Lapina
Hometown/High School: Manhasset, NY. / Manhasset High School
Club: Tenacious Turtles
Position: Attack
Height/Weight: 6-0 / 175
Accolades: Lettered in lacrosse and football in high school career. 2019 Long Island Under Armour Underclassman All-American. Junior Year Lacrosse All Nassau county. Junior Year Lacrosse Academic All American.
Highlight Video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hDF5ANw ... ture=share

Henry Bonnie
Hometown/High School: San Francisco, CA. / Deerfield Academy
Club: 3D Norcal
Position: Attack
Height/Weight: 6-0 / 205
Accolades: Lettered in lacrosse and football in high school career. 2019 West Under Armour Underclassman All-American.
Highlight Video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8gj51vWjnAE&t=13s

Nate Davis
Hometown/High School: Bronxville, NY / Bronxville High School
Club: Westchester Predators
Position: Attack
Height/Weight: 5-8 / 172
Accolades: Lettered in lacrosse and cross-country in high school career. Sophomore Lacrosse All-League Class D. Junior year Lacrosse All League Class D. Junior year Lacrosse All Section 1. Junior year Lacrosse NYSSWA 2nd Team All-NY State. Junior Lacrosse All Hudson Valley. Senior year Elite 11 (Hudson Valley / Rockland).
Highlight Video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h9diqR3w49s

Cooper Higgins
Hometown/High School: Atlanta, GA. / The Lovett School / Phillips Exeter Academy
Club: LB3 Thunder
Position: Midfield
Height/Weight: 5’10/ 170
Accolades: Lettered four years in lacrosse at Lovett before his PG year at Exeter. 2019 South Under Armour Underclassman All-American. Sophomore year lacrosse Second team All-State. Junior year lacrosse First team All-State. Senior year US Lacrosse All American.
Highlight Video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CsBkgaNfsTc&t=9s

Michael Mauricio
Hometown/High School: Westport, CT. / Brunswick School
Club: Eclipse
Position: Attack
Height/Weight: 5’7 / 172
Accolades: Lettered in lacrosse and wrestling in high school career. 2018 Connecticut Under Armour Underclassman All-American. Midnight madness attendee. Senior year Lacrosse Durkin Award.
Highlight Video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Byt7EAf ... e=youtu.be

Ben DiGiovanni
Hometown/High School: Pittsford, NY. / Pittsford High School
Club: Sweetlax, NY
Position: Midfield
Height/Weight: 6-5 / 190
Accolades: Lettered in lacrosse and basketball in high school career. 2019 Upstate Under Armour Underclassman All-American. Senior year basketball captain and 1st Team All County. Senior year Basketball All State Honorable Mention. Junior year Lacrosse 1st Team All County. Sophomore Lacrosse Honorable Mention All County. Senior year Basketball All Tournament Team. Junior year Basketball All Tournament Team. Senior year Basketball Rochester Ronald McDonald Senior All Star. Senior High School Award – Marine Corp Distinguished Athlete Award.
Highlight Video https://www.hudl.com/video/3/10499711/5 ... 0b30f5c2ed

Preferred Walk-Ons:

Lenox Huh
Hometown/High School: Palo Alto, CA./ IMG Academy
Club: ADVNC
Position: Midfield
Height/Weight: 5-10 / 165
Accolades: Lettered in lacrosse during high school career.
Highlight Video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1S0RsPycBMk&t=3s

Kristof Proulx
Hometown/High School: Pembroke Pines, FL. / Avon Old Farms School
Club: Nations United
Position: Midfield
Height/Weight: 6-4 / 215
Accolades: Lettered in lacrosse and football in high school career.
Highlight Video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zC7TsfCz8pk&t=197s

Go Green,

Brendan

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Brendan Callahan
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[Razor21]

Good looking group. Offense heavy which is obviously a need. Welcome to the Woods! Can’t wait to see lacrosse return someday soon hopefully.

[MDlaxfan76]

mmm, good looking goalie (definitely an athlete, needs some technique work) and two defender, 6-4 218lbs and 6-6 242lbs...plus a midfielder 6-5 190, and a walk-on midfielder 6-4 215 who may be SSDMs or given a pole...

But yeah, need more offensive punch. I liked some of the highlights, looks some serious skill sets and IQ on some of them.

On Cooleen, old school enforcer, quite the load!...Brendan may have a challenge keeping him out of the penalty box. But I liked his athleticism with the ball, looked very comfortable going coast to coast.

[FannOLax]

Interesting geographic mix, but no Baltimore / DC area; let's get on it, MDlaxfan76! All joshing aside, Dartmouth was looking good in 2020 before the season halted abruptly, and I'm looking forward to the Green picking up an Ivy win, and more.

[MDlaxfan76]

Interesting geographic mix, but no Baltimore / DC area; let's get on it, MDlaxfan76! All joshing aside, Dartmouth was looking good in 2020 before the season halted abruptly, and I'm looking forward to the Green picking up an Ivy win, and more.

Yup, would like to see some of this region in the pipeline...I'm sure Brendan and Joe would as well.

[The Orfling]

Interesting geographic mix, but no Baltimore / DC area; let's get on it, MDlaxfan76! All joshing aside, Dartmouth was looking good in 2020 before the season halted abruptly, and I'm looking forward to the Green picking up an Ivy win, and more.

Yup, would like to see some of this region in the pipeline...I'm sure Brendan and Joe would as well.

Good looking list of recruits -- I think D's recruiting game improved (and why wouldn't it) when Conner arrived. Maybe they feel that they would not get top-rank guys from the Baltimore/DC MIAA/IAC/WCAC cluster? I'm sure Callahan keeps open lines of communication with Gonzaga but lots of other schools have interest (2020/2021 commitment destinations from 'Zaga include Navy, Harvard, Princeton, Penn State, Villanova, Richmond, and Michigan).

[MDlaxfan76]

Interesting geographic mix, but no Baltimore / DC area; let's get on it, MDlaxfan76! All joshing aside, Dartmouth was looking good in 2020 before the season halted abruptly, and I'm looking forward to the Green picking up an Ivy win, and more.

Yup, would like to see some of this region in the pipeline...I'm sure Brendan and Joe would as well.

Good looking list of recruits -- I think D's recruiting game improved (and why wouldn't it) when Conner arrived. Maybe they feel that they would not get top-rank guys from the Baltimore/DC MIAA/IAC/WCAC cluster? I'm sure Callahan keeps open lines of communication with Gonzaga but lots of other schools have interest (2020/2021 commitment destinations from 'Zaga include Navy, Harvard, Princeton, Penn State, Villanova, Richmond, and Michigan).

Yes, Joe is a very good recruiter and he explicitly has this role. He's not from the MIAA but he is from Maryland.

My alma mater, Gilman, has had 5 kids go to a combo of Yale and Harvard the last two years. I think only 1 to Dartmouth in last 10 years, which is not really off pace, one or two a decade. McDonogh similarly sends a good # to Ivies, Loyola some, St. Mary's a few, Severn, BL and St. Pauls once in a while, but less often. Calvert Hall very rarely. St. Joe and AS, etc only have a handful top D1 prospects, but every once in a while one will go to an Ivy. Been awhile.

I'd written some years ago that the Ivies appeared to be attracting way fewer total MIAA kids than in prior periods, with more attention given to ACC and Big 10, but the surge from McD, Gilman especially in the last two years is closer to past norms. At Gilman, I think there was actually a bias away from Ivy, even a lack of recognition of what was possible. My son's Gilman class ('12) had two go Ivy for the first time in at least 5 successive years (Harvard and Dartmouth, both with dads who had played Ivy), the top 3 recruited players went UNC, Denver, and Ohio State; they had 6 D1 in total, with a Haverford, whereas my class had 6 go Ivy, 4 AA's, all played (4PU, 1 D, 1HU), 5 of those in the top 6 recruits, others went to Hopkins (2), W&L (2) when it was D1, Bucknell, and D3 Denison(2). Similar was true of the great teams in the late '90's and early 2000's. But not the late 2000's. Princeton used to have the biggest pipeline into the MIAA, now it appears that Yale is the destination of choice for the top MIAA players who can possibly do the work.

I have theories about why, but there appears to have been a recent shift back or at least an opening. Hopefully Dartmouth can be in that mix, but I just want Brendan and Joe to find the best fit for the program. Lots of good players out there. Find the best young men.

[The Orfling]

Interesting geographic mix, but no Baltimore / DC area; let's get on it, MDlaxfan76! All joshing aside, Dartmouth was looking good in 2020 before the season halted abruptly, and I'm looking forward to the Green picking up an Ivy win, and more.

Yup, would like to see some of this region in the pipeline...I'm sure Brendan and Joe would as well.

Good looking list of recruits -- I think D's recruiting game improved (and why wouldn't it) when Conner arrived. Maybe they feel that they would not get top-rank guys from the Baltimore/DC MIAA/IAC/WCAC cluster? I'm sure Callahan keeps open lines of communication with Gonzaga but lots of other schools have interest (2020/2021 commitment destinations from 'Zaga include Navy, Harvard, Princeton, Penn State, Villanova, Richmond, and Michigan).

Yes, Joe is a very good recruiter and he explicitly has this role. He's not from the MIAA but he is from Maryland.

My alma mater, Gilman, has had 5 kids go to a combo of Yale and Harvard the last two years. I think only 1 to Dartmouth in last 10 years, which is not really off pace, one or two a decade. McDonogh similarly sends a good # to Ivies, Loyola some, St. Mary's a few, Severn, BL and St. Pauls once in a while, but less often. Calvert Hall very rarely. St. Joe and AS, etc only have a handful top D1 prospects, but every once in a while one will go to an Ivy. Been awhile.

I'd written some years ago that the Ivies appeared to be attracting way fewer total MIAA kids than in prior periods, with more attention given to ACC and Big 10, but the surge from McD, Gilman especially in the last two years is closer to past norms. At Gilman, I think there was actually a bias away from Ivy, even a lack of recognition of what was possible. My son's Gilman class ('12) had two go Ivy for the first time in at least 5 successive years (Harvard and Dartmouth, both with dads who had played Ivy), the top 3 recruited players went UNC, Denver, and Ohio State; they had 6 D1 in total, with a Haverford, whereas my class had 6 go Ivy, 4 AA's, all played (4PU, 1 D, 1HU), 5 of those in the top 6 recruits, others went to Hopkins (2), W&L (2) when it was D1, Bucknell, and D3 Denison(2). Similar was true of the great teams in the late '90's and early 2000's. But not the late 2000's. Princeton used to have the biggest pipeline into the MIAA, now it appears that Yale is the destination of choice for the top MIAA players who can possibly do the work.

I have theories about why, but there appears to have been a recent shift back or at least an opening. Hopefully Dartmouth can be in that mix, but I just want Brendan and Joe to find the best fit for the program. Lots of good players out there. Find the best young men.

The Big Green definitely seem to be headed in the right direction, and then some (new facility coming, excellent short season in 2020, good recruiting classes). Let's hope the "new normal" allows all Ivy League fans to appreciate a Dartmouth MLAX resurgence in the near future.

[MDlaxfan76]

Interesting geographic mix, but no Baltimore / DC area; let's get on it, MDlaxfan76! All joshing aside, Dartmouth was looking good in 2020 before the season halted abruptly, and I'm looking forward to the Green picking up an Ivy win, and more.

Yup, would like to see some of this region in the pipeline...I'm sure Brendan and Joe would as well.

Good looking list of recruits -- I think D's recruiting game improved (and why wouldn't it) when Conner arrived. Maybe they feel that they would not get top-rank guys from the Baltimore/DC MIAA/IAC/WCAC cluster? I'm sure Callahan keeps open lines of communication with Gonzaga but lots of other schools have interest (2020/2021 commitment destinations from 'Zaga include Navy, Harvard, Princeton, Penn State, Villanova, Richmond, and Michigan).

Yes, Joe is a very good recruiter and he explicitly has this role. He's not from the MIAA but he is from Maryland.

My alma mater, Gilman, has had 5 kids go to a combo of Yale and Harvard the last two years. I think only 1 to Dartmouth in last 10 years, which is not really off pace, one or two a decade. McDonogh similarly sends a good # to Ivies, Loyola some, St. Mary's a few, Severn, BL and St. Pauls once in a while, but less often. Calvert Hall very rarely. St. Joe and AS, etc only have a handful top D1 prospects, but every once in a while one will go to an Ivy. Been awhile.

I'd written some years ago that the Ivies appeared to be attracting way fewer total MIAA kids than in prior periods, with more attention given to ACC and Big 10, but the surge from McD, Gilman especially in the last two years is closer to past norms. At Gilman, I think there was actually a bias away from Ivy, even a lack of recognition of what was possible. My son's Gilman class ('12) had two go Ivy for the first time in at least 5 successive years (Harvard and Dartmouth, both with dads who had played Ivy), the top 3 recruited players went UNC, Denver, and Ohio State; they had 6 D1 in total, with a Haverford, whereas my class had 6 go Ivy, 4 AA's, all played (4PU, 1 D, 1HU), 5 of those in the top 6 recruits, others went to Hopkins (2), W&L (2) when it was D1, Bucknell, and D3 Denison(2). Similar was true of the great teams in the late '90's and early 2000's. But not the late 2000's. Princeton used to have the biggest pipeline into the MIAA, now it appears that Yale is the destination of choice for the top MIAA players who can possibly do the work.

I have theories about why, but there appears to have been a recent shift back or at least an opening. Hopefully Dartmouth can be in that mix, but I just want Brendan and Joe to find the best fit for the program. Lots of good players out there. Find the best young men.

The Big Green definitely seem to be headed in the right direction, and then some (new facility coming, excellent short season in 2020, good recruiting classes). Let's hope the "new normal" allows all Ivy League fans to appreciate a Dartmouth MLAX resurgence in the near future.

Thanks, fingers crossed both for that resurgence, but heck just the opportunity to play some ball next year!

[Sportin' Life]

Dartmouth to eliminate five varsity sports (men's and women's swimming and diving; men’s and women’s golf; and men's lightweight rowing) and reduce the number of recruited athletes by 10% in each class. Steps taken in part to address $150MM pandemic-related budget deficit. https://news.dartmouth.edu/news/2020/07 ... cs-program

[MDlaxfan76]

I'm concerned about the changing priorities of the College, the discussion about Admissions, but understand that we're living in interesting times.

[faircornell]

What I find unusual about these decisions and those at Brown is that the alumni base for these sports didn't carry the day to keep them viable in some way. Also, while I realize that Hanover has some locally specific inflation, it seems unusual that it costs a million dollars a year to keep a rural golf course operating. I believe that Cornell keeps theirs viable at a much lower cost.

[Farfromgeneva]

Could be supply of specialized maintenance support vendors?

[Comeonman]

Crying shame. These are sports that folks attend DU to play. Stanford as well with V Ball and Rasslin. Dominos.

[faircornell]

Could be supply of specialized maintenance support vendors?

It could be a revenue issue. A premium membership with unlimited cart use is $300/month.

[Farfromgeneva]

Cheap. Golf courses lose money almost universally. They make their money selling the real estate adjacent and hope to break even on the operations but reality is that golf courses are being converted to other uses throughout the country. It peaked like a decade or more ago so it’s also a symbol of something that perhaps Dartmouth just doesnt want to be reflecting these days too

[faircornell]

Well... I've received some input from a Big Green supporter... The golf team stopped using the course a few years ago, and some of the land was earmarked for an expansion of the Tuck School facilities.

Sorry, Big Green fans to step on your thread. I'm sure that this is a sensitive issue, and that there are some recruited athletes who are facing a stressful reality right now.

[MDlaxfan76]

Crying shame. These are sports that folks attend DU to play. Stanford as well with V Ball and Rasslin. Dominos.

DU?

[FannOLax]

Or, while some colleges have "University" in their names, Dartmouth is Dartmouth College.

[MDlaxfan76]

Or, while some colleges have "University" in their names, Dartmouth is Dartmouth College.

and there are those who love it.

In lacrosse speak, DU means Denver.