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DATE: Oct. 3, 2001
CONTACT: Brian Logue, blogue@lacrosse.org
2002 US Men’s Lacrosse Team Set to Make its Debut
11 colleges will also compete at the Price Modern Lacrosse
for Leukemia Tourney
BALTIMORE — The 2002 United States Men’s Lacrosse team
will play together for the first time during the 4th Annual Price
Modern Lacrosse for Leukemia tournament on Saturday, Oct. 6 at the
McDonogh School in Owings Mills, Md. A total of 11 college teams
will also compete in the fall ball tournament and admission is $10
per car.
The U.S. team will play three games, beginning with a 10 a.m. game
against Johns Hopkins. The U.S. will then meet Georgetown at 11
a.m. and Towson at 1 p.m. Other colleges scheduled to compete include
Butler, Cornell, Loyola, UMBC, Ohio State, Pennsylvania, Quinnipiac
and Washington College.
The 23-member U.S. team includes two players—attackman Darren
Lowe and midfielder Andy Ross—from the 1998 team which won
the International Lacrosse Federation world championship with a
thrilling 15-14 victory over Canada at Homewood Field on the Johns
Hopkins campus in Baltimore. Lowe was the 1992 national player of
the year at Brown and Ross was a three-time All-American at Navy.
Other prominent players on the U.S. team include attackman Kevin
Lowe, the all-time leading scorer at Princeton; attackman Michael
Powell, the national attackman of the year as a freshman at Syracuse
last year; and Trevor Tierney, the nation’s outstanding goalie
last year when he led Princeton to the national championship. Doug
Shanahan, the 2001 Tewaraaton Trophy winner, is currently playing
on the Hofstra football team and is the one member of the team not
expected to play. The U.S. team is coached by Army head coach Jack
Emmer, the winningest active coach in college lacrosse with 289
career victories.
Proceeds from the tournament benefit the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society.
For more information, contact the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society
at (410) 825-2500 or visit their Web site at www.leukemia-lymphoma.org.
For more information about the U.S. men’s team visit www.lacrosse.org.
US Lacrosse, a 501(c) 3 nonprofit organization, is the national
governing body of men's and women's lacrosse.
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