Our annual look at Michigan natives who are playing college lacrosse at division-1 institutions this spring:
Air Force
- Sophomore attack Tommy McKee (Holt).
Bellarmine
- Senior midfielder Andrew Bulgarelli (Troy Athens)
- Senior attack Devin Peurach (Brother Rice)
Delaware
- Freshman midfielder Bennett Packer (Brother Rice)
Detroit
- Freshman attack Brandon Beauregard (Notre Dame Prep)
- Senior midfielder John Bemben (Hartland)
- Freshman midfielder Mike Birney (Detroit Catholic Central)
- Junior midfielder Tyler Corcoran (South Lyon)
- Junior midfielder Brandon Davenport (Grosse Pointe North)
- Sophomore LSM Kevin DiSalle (Orchard Lake Saint Mary’s)
- Sophomore attack Scott Drummond (Birmingham Seaholm)
- Junior defenseman John Dwyer (Detroit Catholic Central)
- Sophomore midfielder Nick Garippa (Notre Dame Prep)
- Freshman defenseman Joe Gifford (Notre Dame Prep)
- Senior attack Scott Harris (Saline)
- Junior defenseman Jamie Hebden (Brother Rice)
- Senior midfielder Brad Janer (Detroit Catholic Central)
- Sophomore LSM Andrew Khalil (Warren De La Salle)
- Senior Midfielder Tim Lehto (North Farmington)
- Sophomore midfielder Joe MacLean (Detroit Country Day)
- Freshman midfielder Chris Mandell (Warren De La Salle)
- Sophomore midfielder Stephen Mastracci (Auburn Hills Avondale)
- Junior midfielder Chris Nemes (Detroit Catholic Central)
- Senior defensman Adam Nolan (Ann Arbor Pioneer)
- Senior midfielder John Nowicki (Warren De La Salle)
- Senior midfielder Adam Parrotino (Warren De La Salle)
- Sophomore midfielder Tim Robertson (Notre Same Prep)
- Sophomore midfielder Nick Schesnuk (Warren De La Salle)
- Sophomore LSM Drew Schupbach (Orchard Lake St. Mary’s)
- Redshirt freshman midfielder Tom Sible (Forest Hills Central)
- Sophomore attack Tyler Staruch (Brighton)
Georgetown
- Sophomore midfielder Grant Fisher (Brother Rice)
Hofstra
- Junior defenseman Michael Hamilton (Brother Rice)
Johns Hopkins
- Senior defensman Anderw Cote (Brother Rice)
Michigan
- Junior Goalie Cy Abdelnour (Ann Arbor Pioneer)
- Junior midfielder Zach Dauch (Bloomfield Hills Lahser)
- Freshman defenseman Mack Gembis (Cranbrook)
- Redshirt senior midfielder Brian Greiner (Grosse Pointe South)
- Freshman defenseman Nicolas Guerriero (Detroit Catholic Central)
- Senior defenseman Rob Healy (Notre Dame Prep)
- Sophomore midfielder Jeff Janer (Detroit Catholic Central)
- Senior midfielder Brent Kirshner (Ann Arbor Huron)
- Freshman attack Will Meter (Brother Rice)
- Freshman midfielder Thomas Orr (Detroit Catholic Central)
- Sophomore defenseman Dakota Sherman (Cranbrook)
- Senior defenseman Austin Swaney (East Grand Rapids)
- Senior midfielder Alex Vasileff (Birmingham Seaholm)
Mount St. Mary’s
- Junior midfielder Conor Carey (University of Detroit Jesuit)
- Junior midfielder Jon Marsalese (University of Detroit Jesuit)
- Senior defenseman Brendan Rooney (University of Detroit Jesuit)
Ohio State
- Sophomore midfielder Nick Diegel (Northville)
Penn State
- Junior Attack Nick Dolik (Brother Rice)
- Junior midfielder Danny Henneghan (Brother Rice)
Sacred Heart
- Sophomore midfielder Tom Sardelli (Notre Dame Prep)
Stony Brook
- Senior attack Graham Adams (Brother Rice)
Villanova
- Senior midfielder Joe Payne (Brother Rice)
VMI
- Freshman midfielder Andrew Erber (Dexter)
- Redshirt freshman midfielder Vince Reo (University of Detroit Jesuit)
Yale
- Junior midfielder Bryan Walker (Brother Rice)
Schools with none: Albany, Binghamton, Brown, Bryant, Bucknell, Canisius, Colgate, Cornell, Dartmouth, Drexel, Duke, Fairfield, Hartford, Harvard, Hobart, Holy Cross Jacksonville, Lafayette, Lehigh, Loyola, Manhattan, Marist, Maryland, Massachusetts, Navy, North Carolina, Notre Dame, Penn, Princeton, Robert Morris, Rutgers, St. John’s, St. Joseph’s, Siena, Syracuse, Towson, UMBC, Vermont, Virginia, Wagner. There are 60 players listed on 17 different teams (and if I’ve missed anyone, please let me know). That’s a modest increase from last year, when there were 53 Michigan players on 19 different squads. That increase is less impressive when you take into account the addition of another in-state program – there are 13 homegrown players on Michigan’s roster, nine of whom were on last year’s club team. Overall, the numbers are down. There are some mitigating factors to take into account (there are a handful of Michigan natives – including some transfers – on Marquette’s roster, but the Golden Eagles don’t begin play until the 2013 season), but hopefully we’ll see Michigan representation pick up in the near future.
This is a very interesting list with Detroit and Michigan both in the mix now. How many of these kids would be playing D1 if those programs didn’t exist? How will those two programs influence Michigan kids in the future? Will more aspire to play D1?
Detroit is obviously pursuing a strategy to build their program based mostly on in-state talent. Given the school’s national footprint (or lack thereof) and their ability to market and inspire based on a gritty state/Detroit pride, this is the right tactic. I would imagine they probably don’t have a huge recruiting budget either, but I’m speculating about that. UDM is a great resource and a really good opportunity for Michigan kids.
Michigan has a bunch of in-state kids now, but based on the recruiting reports so far I expect that number to drop way down in the next couple of years. This also makes sense given the school’s national reputation. What Michigan will bring to the state is less about playing opportunities and more about attention (see all the media attention they are getting right now even though they haven’t even played yet and wont’ be that good for awhile). They will also attract top-20 teams to play games in Ann Arbor, which will be really beneficial to all of the programs in the area.
The next question in follow up to this list is which of these guys are playing major roles on their teams?
My guess is the biggest impact for their teams this year will be by Lehto, and Harris at Detroit and possibly Meter at Michigan. From what I’ve heard McKee is doing well, and I think Oates was on manup at Army. Sardelli should also have a good year.
Defensively Hebden is the biggest standout in my opinion.
I think Hennegan may be the go to guy at the X for PSU but I’m not sure about that.
Don’t sleep on the NDP kids. Bo might start, Garippa is for sure secure as a top line d middie and Gifford might see time down low.
Hennegan was the go to guy at the X at PSU last year, he is again.
Henneghan had a really good year for PSU (coming off an injury if I recall correctly? – maybe that was the kid at Notre Dame though).
Marmul was the CC kid at ND that fought knee injuries.
Danny will again be the top face off guy for PSU and run d middie for them. Rice classmate Nick Dolik will be anchoring the top midfield line.
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I noticed Detroit is missing a few players from the fall, most notably Matt Lining. What happened to the big lefty?