Our annual look at Michigan natives who are playing college lacrosse at division-1 institutions this spring. From schools’ official rosters:
Bellarmine
- Sophomore attack/midfield Graham Macko (Brother Rice)
Binghamton
- Freshman midfielder Liam Reaume (Brother Rice)
Canisius
- Freshman midfielder Keith Pravato (Novi)
- Sophomore midfielder Steve Wizniuk (De La Salle)
Delaware
- Senior defenseman Bennett Packer (Brother Rice)
Detroit
- Senior midfield/attack Brandon Beauregard (Notre Dame Prep)
- Sophomore attack Kyle Beauregard (Notre Dame Prep)
- Senior midfielder Mike Birney (Detroit Catholic Central)
- Freshman midfielder Sean Birney (Detroit Catholic Central)
- Senior midfielder Scott Drummond (Birmingham Seaholm)
- Sophomore goalie Connor Flynn (Rockford)
- Senior defenseman Joe Gifford (Notre Dame Prep)
- Redshirt freshman attack Alex Gilhooly (Detroit Catholic Central)
- Sophomore midfielder Ben Gjokaj (Walled Lake Central)
- Sophomore midfielder Brad Harris (Saline)
- Freshman midfielder Charlie Hayes (Utica Eisenhower)
- Junior midfielder Andy Hebden (Brother Rice)
- Sophomore LSM JD Hess (Birmingham Seaholm)
- Sophomore attack/midifeld Connor Maks (UD-Jesuit)
- Sophomore midfielder Greg Marzec (Brother Rice)
- Redshirt freshman defenseman Bryan Matney (Ann Arbor Pioneer)
- Freshman midfielder Chris Perry (Utica Eisenhower)
- Freshman LSM Austin Ross (Warren Mott)
- Senior midfielder Thomas Sible (Forest Hills Central)
- Freshman midfielder Brett Spanski (Traverse City Central)
- Freshman defenseman Travis Sparling (Novi)
- Junior midfielder Mike Spuller (Dexter)
- Redshirt freshman attack Adam Susalla (Birmingham Seaholm)
- Junior defenseman Jordan Yono (Detroit Catholic Central)
Duke
- Freshman midfielder Matthew Giampetroni (Cranbrook)
Marquette
- Junior midfielder K.C. Kennedy (Brother Rice)
- Junior attack Henry Nelson (Brother Rice)
Michigan
- Sophomore faceoff specialist Brian Archer (Brighton)
- Senior defenseman Mack Gembis (Cranbrook)
- Junior midfielder Riley Kennedy (Brother Rice)
- Senior attack Will Meter (Brother Rice)
- Senior midfielder Thomas Orr (Detroit Catholic Central)
- Junior defenseman Chris Walker (Brother Rice)
NJIT
- Freshman midfielder Brent Lubin (Orchard Lake St. Mary’s)
Notre Dame
- Sophomore midfielder Sergio Perkovic (Brother Rice)
Penn
- Sophomore goalie Ahmed Iftikhar (Detroit Country Day)
Providence
- Freshman midfielder Joshua Keller (East Grand Rapids)
Richmond
- Sophomore attack JP Forester (Brother Rice)
Robert Morris
- Sophomore attack Kento Nakano (Rockford)
Rutgers
- Junior midfielder Jacob Coretti (East Grand Rapids)
VMI
- Senior midfielder Andrew Erber (Dexter)
Yale
- Freshman midfielder/attack Jason Alessi (Brother Rice)
- Sophomore midfielder John Lazarsfeld (Ann Arbor Greenhills)
Schools with none: Air Force, Albany, Army, Boston U., Brown, Bryant, Bucknell, Colgate, Cornell, Dartmouth, Denver, Drexel, Fairfield, Furman, Georgetown, Hartford, Harvard, High Point, Hobart, Hofstra, Holy Cross, Jacksonville, Johns Hopkins, Lafayette, Lehigh, Loyola, Manhattan, Marist, Maryland, Massachusetts, Mercer, Monmouth, Mount St. Mary’s, Navy, North Carolina, Ohio State, Penn State, Princeton, Quinnipiac, Sacred Heart, Saint Joseph’s, Siena, St. John’s, Stony Brook, Syracuse, Towson, UMass Lowell, UMBC, Vermont, Villanova, Virginia, Wagner.
There are 47 players listed on 17 different teams, both declines from last year (53 and 19, respectively). With more programs nationally – 69 as opposed to just 61 the first year of this exercise – that’s a bad trend. Two in-state programs could ultimately improve the level of youth coaching in the state, but it’s clear that it will take time (and probably changing of some of the MHSAA’s garbage rules wouldn’t hurt, either). There are six homegrown players on Michigan’s roster, and 24 on Detroit’s roster.