Comments on: Lacrosse Recruiting

By: EH Youth Lacrosse

EH Youth Lacrosse — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 17:22:59 +0000

As per your comments: “… Michigan would probably have a ton of trouble recruiting, but as Brian mentioned last week, since when has Michigan struggled getting kids from New York to come here? With (potentially) some of the best facilities in the country, it wouldn’t take long for Michigan to build a respectable, though not Syracuse/Maryland/Hopkins-level recruiting ability”.

Andrew Gualtieri is a popular player from Eastern LI. The UM Coach “recruited” Andrew away from the Deerfield Academy, MA from attending a PG yr. (The decision to attend UM negated offers from other top D-1 & D-3 programs). After 3 practice sessions Andrew Gualtieri was cut because the rooster was too large & Coach Paul believed after 11 face off opportunities that Andrew was too small for his position and expendable. The Membership of the EH Youth Lacrosse Community doubts very seriously if the Michigan Club program could “recruit” another player from Suffolk County after the treatment Andrew Gualtieri received.

By: Ralph V.

Ralph V. — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 20:08:52 +0000

Andrew is a face off specialist trained by Matt Schomberg (John Glynn’s f/o coach-mentor) Schommy is also a special teams coach for the LI Lizards. News paper got it wrong, as a team leader Andrew helped anchor the defense. New to the team, played only one season, transfer from a small private school to complete his senior yr. If Andrew won the f/o he turned the ball over to the offense, if he lost the face off he stayed on and played center d. Highest shot percentage on the team w/ the lowest number of shots on goal.

By: Old Blue

Old Blue — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 19:58:50 +0000

A lacrosse recruiting update. YES!

Adam Wells, the goalie from Cranbrook who is listed as a walk-on, was a high school All-American this year. So, with the two guys I assume they have coming back, the two you listed, and Wells, that’s five very good goalies. I can’t imagine they keep all five.

JD Johnson was also an All-American this year, as was Thomas Paras, an attackman from St. Ignatious HS in Cleveland.

Interesting to note that Steenland’s father is the outgoing CEO of Northwest Airlines (and now on several Boards, including Chrysler), and Johnson’s dad is the CEO of Herbalife and former VP at Disney. If Coach Paul ever wants varsity lacrosse at Michigan he needs people like that on his side.

By: APSIV

APSIV — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 18:14:00 +0000

I sent you an email. The numbers on the left hand side are not rankings. They are simply the order in which these players were entered into the recruiting database. Michigan did get some good players though.

By: Alex Janeck

Alex Janeck — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 17:56:42 +0000

Joey Hrusovsky, outstanding player, Michigan will be very impressed with him. Can faceoff, play shut down defense, and score at will. One of the best and most underrated players in Illinois due to the stockload of talent on Lake Forest. Lee Boshes played very weak competition at Deerfield (Lower tier school in Illinois) and who knows how his skills will translate to Michigan