July 17, 2010
HS players head to Champion Showcase
by Staff Report/
Will Wise of Cohasset, Mass., was scheduled to participate in the 2010 Champion High School Showcase.
Several New England high school boys and girls will play at the 2010 Champion High School Showcase. The showcase events are part of the ESPN RISE Games Presented by Target from July 17-22 at the ESPN Wide World of Sports Complex in Lake Buena Vista, Fla.
In the girls events, 80 players from 19 states were selected to four teams. New England players to make the trip are Abigail Ananian (Belmont, Mass.), Mallory Collins (Hingham, Mass.), Shea Kusiak (Longmeadow, Mass.), Christine Donovan (Hingham, Mass.), Katharine Eddy (Cheshire, Conn.), Dana Boyle (Londonderry, N.H.) and Alexis Stephan (Avon, Conn.). Erin Carroll of Thayer Academy in Braintree, Mass., is one of the girls coaches.
The New England boys selections are: Edward “Devin” Acton (Sudbury, Mass.), Will Wise (Cohasset, Mass.), Darric White (Fairfield, Conn.), Jordan Greenfield (Dover, Mass.), Cody Newton (New Canaan, Conn.), Tucker White (Jericho, Vt.), Nathan Roy (Essex, Conn.), Christopher MacKay (Dover, Mass.), Nathan Brooks (Longmeadow, Mass.), Ryan Izzo (East Walpole, Mass.), Seth Richard (Derry, N.H.), Connor Mooney (Wilbraham, Mass.), Daniel Eipp (Groton, Mass.), Nick Hart (Hinesburg, Vt.), Edward Redpath (Norwich, Vt.), Breck Merritt (Weston, Mass.), Kyle Pratte (Manchester, N.H.) and Daniel Zenevitch (Worcester, Mass.). Steve Falconer of Northbridge (Mass.) High School is among the coaches for the games.
Tillman leaves Harvard
Harvard University men’s lacrosse coach John Tillman left the school in June to become head coach at Maryland.
Tillman spent three seasons in Cambridge, guding the Crimson to a 20-19 overall record, leading Harvard to several signature victories, including a win at Duke in 2009. In addition, Tillman coached Harvard to an 8-5 overall mark and 3-3 Ivy League record in 2009, marking the most wins for the team since the 2002 season. Under Tillman’s tutelage, the Crimson climbed to as high as No. 11 in the national polls in each of the last two seasons and welcomed the nation’s third-ranked recruiting class last fall.
Said Bob Scalise, Harvard’s athletic director: “The effect of Coach Tillman’s time in Cambridge will be long-lasting and we will always consider him a true friend of Harvard men’s lacrosse. We will find a replacement to build from the momentum created by Coach Tillman’s tenure.”
Harvard’s last trip to the NCAA tournament was in 2006; the Crimson return 35 players next season, including two All-Ivy League selections. A national search for Tillman’s successor is already underway.
In other coaching news:
►Rory Deegan is the new men’s lacrosse coach at Massachusetts Maritime Academy, replacing Barry Joyce, who resigned after five seasons. Deegan, who serves as an Assistant Director in the Academy’s Regiment of Cadets, played collegiately at Manhattan College, and served as assistant men’s lacrosse coach at Alvernia College in Reading, Pa., before coming to Mass. Maritime as an assistant. In addition to his coaching duties with the men’s team, Deegan also served as the Academy’s head club women’s lacrosse coach during the past year. The fledgling Buccaneer women’s program is seeking a new coach and expects to fill the opening by the end of the summer.
►Castleton State College has hired Brian Kingsbury as head coach for men’s lacrosse. A Universityof Maryland graduate, Kingsbury has spent the past two seasons as the defensive coordinator at Castleton, while earning his Master of Education Degree, as a graduate assistant with the program.
