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Writer's pictureDan Arestia

The 2025 PLL Big Board

By semi-popular demand, it’s about that time. The 2025 college lacrosse season is in the throes of fall ball, which means it’s time to get ahead of ourselves and start talking about the 2025 PLL Draft. 


This is the first pass of the 2025 PLL Big Board. This is NOT a mock draft. I don’t expect players to be drafted in this order and would be surprised if they are. This is a list of college seniors and grad students, ranked by how likely I think it is that they become successful PLL pros. Drafts have to consider team needs, fit, and other connections, a big board considers none of that. 


Per the PLL, if you’re a senior in college, you can declare for the draft. So if you’re a senior or grad student, I’m going to consider you draft eligible. Once I get confirmation that a player is not coming out of school, either because he’s doing another year of lacrosse or pursuing something else out of college, I’ll add him to the noted unavailable player section. We’re basically done with the COVID year stuff at this point, but grad years and the portal still mean players have the opportunity to spend more than four years in college playing lacrosse. Five(ish) years of lacrosse and leaving school with a grad degree is a pretty great opportunity and I love seeing players take advantage of it.


In the past, the first edition of this board has lived up to the name. It’s been BIG. Probably too big. Too many names, too much to go through. This is pared down a bit. I’ve left room for it to grow, rather than starting huge and shrinking. Everyone who appears on the big board will get a few words explaining why they’re there at some point, even if it’s not in this edition.


This board changes over time as players rise and fall, and as new players get added. Because I’m a voter for the DI media poll and media All Americans, I watch a lot of DI lacrosse. Because I contribute to the USA Lax Mag DII and DIII polls and player awards, I watch a lot of DII and DIII lacrosse too. It’s a lot of hours. But even with all those hours, college lacrosse is a massive place, I can’t do deep dives on every single player who is draft eligible and still keep my day job. If you look down the list and think I can’t believe Dan missed this guy, reach out, give me a game he stands out in, and I’ll take a look.


OVERALL


  1. CJ Kirst, Attack, Cornell

  2. Levi Verch, D/LSM, St Joseph’s

  3. Chris Kavanagh, Attack, Notre Dame

  4. Sam English, Midfield, Princeton/Syracuse

  5. Ben Ramsey, Midfield, Notre Dame

  6. Coulter Mackesy, Attack, Princeton

  7. Emmet Carroll, Goalie, Penn

  8. Andrew McAdorey, Midfield, Duke

  9. Brendan Lavelle, Defense, Penn

  10. Jake Taylor, Attack, Notre Dame


CJ Kirst is going to be at the top of the list for everyone at the start of the year, and it’ll probably take quite a bit to knock him from the pedestal. He’ll be the Tewaaraton favorite to start the year, he’s already been a finalist, he’s been 1st team all everything. Kirst is consistent. He’s reliable. Usually those are traits you mention around players further down the list. But for Kirst, he’s consistently great. He’s had 10 game winning goals in 48 career starts. A little over 20% of the time he takes the field, he scores the game winner. That’s meeting the moment. Last year he stacked up 67 points, including 45 goals, and committed just 13 turnovers on the year. He shoots for a respectable 33% on his career. Kirst has also honed his skills with Mimico in the OJLL in the summertime, giving him a better understanding of play in tight quarters, space on offense, and turned him into more than just a dodger and scorer. Kirst is a plug and play lefty attackman for just about every team in the league. 


There’s a scene in the movie Twisters where Glenn Powell and his tornado wranglers are driving through a storm and can barely see anything. All of a sudden a tornado hits some kind of refinery (rad) and catches fire (extremely rad) and becomes a fire-nado. If “tornado that has somehow caught fire” was a lacrosse player, it would be Levi Verch. The British Columbia native can move between LSM and close, shuffling to whatever the top matchup is. Off the wing and with the ball on the ground, he plays at a different speed than everyone else. He can cover a shifty dodging attackman at X, a big bodied leverage player from wings, a downhill dodger up top. And he plays with violence and intensity. He picked up 80 ground balls and had 29 caused turnovers last year. And at 6’2, 215 lbs, he is built for the speed and physicality of the pro game. He’s already been a Team Canada defender, and he’ll be a pro indoors and outdoors. 


Chris Kavanagh is, in my eyes, the player with the best chance to change the “CJ Kirst is a lock for first overall” conversation. Kavanagh broke the school record for points at Notre Dame last year. This is noteworthy because he really still played like a complimentary weapon. The dodging threats at Notre Dame last year were frequently Pat Kavanagh, Jordan Faison, Eric Dobson, not necessarily Chris Kavanagh. He still racked up 37 assists. This year, Kavanagh will be the leader at the attack position. He’ll get more dodging opportunities, more assist opportunities, more ways to put his stamp on a game as more than just a scorer. That said, even as just a scorer, he can immediately be a starter in the PLL. All eight PLL clubs have plenty of players who will need touches as a dodger, and the old adage says there’s only one ball. Chris Kavanagh can be in your top six, score 15-20 goals as a rookie, and barely need to take a dodge all year. His sense for space and his shooting ability make him dangerous all the time. Because of that, every club in the PLL can use him. If he has a great year as a dodger and creator, every team is going to not just be able to use him, but consider him a player to build an offense around.


I’m going to put Sam English with the offense first midfielders for this board, but he could ultimately be a two way player. When it comes to English, I find myself thinking back to his performance at the Fall Classic in 2023 with Team Canada. Against Team USA, I came away thinking that English was probably the best dodging middie on the field. Even against that competition. The entirety of North America knows English wants to get to his right, but when he starts at the high wing, he gets where he wants to go, every time, against everyone. He understands how to take a few blades of grass and turn it into pressure on a defense. It will not take long before he draws poles at the pro level. With his box background (he projects as a high level pro indoors too), OCs can scheme sets where he dodges alone or creates as the ball carrier in two man games. There’s a whole lot that you can unlock with a dodger like English. 


The top SSDM on the board is Ben Ramsey. I consider this to be the best two midfield and SSDM class the PLL has seen in quite a while. 2021 saw Danny Logan, Ryan Terefenko, Connor Kirst, and Jeff Trainor get drafted, this draft class is right there and Ramsey is the headliner. He has a very similar build and speed of guys like Logan, he’s been a major contributor at SSDM for his entire career with the Irish. Ramsey at his best is the Final Four matchup with Duke a year ago. The saying with defenders is if you don’t say their name a lot, it means they had a good game. Ramsey disproved that. Because they were saying his name all the time, and it was only big plays. Six ground balls in that game and three caused turnovers as he tore up the Duke midfield. Ramsey is the type of player who will be on the Sixes radar for LA 2028, and can be part of the top SSDM pair on day one in the PLL.


I feel like I can already see it coming. On draft night, after Kirst and Kavanagh go, maybe even another attackman, someone will grab Mackesy and we’ll get the “don’t sleep on this guy” takes. There will be no sleeping. Mackesy is a sharp shooting lefty, who will be a popular, not dark horse, pick to be a Tewaaraton finalist this year. A starter since his freshman year, Mackesy has averaged north of two goals per game for his career at Princeton. He’s a career 30% shooter on over 400 shots. As you often see with box players, Mackesy has a great understanding of when he might seem guarded, a pole might be next to him or playing him physically, but his hands are free enough and he can see the goal, so he might as well be unguarded and shoot. Josh Byrne does this better than anyone. Guarding him takes just a little extra in the way of disrupting his hands and his center of gravity, because if his hands are free and his feet are set, it doesn’t matter what the defender is doing, he can shoot as if there’s nobody there at all. Mackesy creates shots for himself out of nothing as well as anyone in the draft, and that’s without a box background. His dodges can be short and deadly.


Emmet Carroll is the top netminder in the draft class. In terms of pro ceiling and viability, he’s a clear step above the others at the position. He spent almost all of last season with a save percentage in the 60s (it dipped to 59.4% at the end of the year). He led the DI in that stat. He also led DI in saves. He had double digit saves every game. He went 70% or better twice (Albany and Brown). The defense in front of Carroll was solid, not great. Brendan Lavelle is elite, but as a unit, the Penn defense was fine. Point being, Carroll isn’t a goalie whose numbers are propped up because he played behind an elite defense. He got leaned on to make a ton of saves every week, and he made a ton of saves every week. He’ll enter the college season regarded as the best goalie in DI. 


Andrew McAdorey has a huge opportunity to make a larger name for himself this year. He’s shared the offensive part of the field with Brennan O’Neill since their days at St Anthony’s. This year, McAdorey can be an alpha dodger and creator, playing in nobody’s shadow, and showcase what he can do. Duke has used him at attack in the past; to me he belongs in the midfield. It gets him more space to set up his defender on dodges, more space to run into after making his move, and McAdorey with lots of space is electric. He’s another dodging midfielder who will have defensive coordinators considering poling him in a hurry. While a dodger like English is best at making his move and running hard to his right, McAdorey has more shake, beating men with change of direction and explosiveness in the style of a Tucker Dordevic. 


Brendan Lavelle is who I’d consider to be the safest pick for close defense. We all saw him lock up Brennan O’Neill, that’s about all most scouts will need to see to be sold on him. Lavelle is my favorite type of close defender to watch. He is all substance, no style, and I mean that in the best possible way. Similar to a guy like JT Giles-Harris, Lavelle won’t have his highlights set to dubstep and blasted out on social media. He’s not going to wow you with over the head checks, huge crunching hits, or mic’d up soundbytes full of trash talk. But if he’s guarding you, he’s going to be attached to you for sixty minutes. In your pocket, unshakeable, playing all the correct angles, stick where it should be to lift his man’s hands. He is this year’s Ice Man from Top Gun. That’s how he flies, ice cold, no mistakes. 


Rounding out the top ten, Notre Dame attackman Jake Taylor. He owns one of the more spectacular debuts of a career I’ve seen. In his first start for Notre Dame, he scored eight goals against Syracuse, breaking the program record. He is the best off ball scorer/finisher in college lacrosse. His indoors skills, and hands, serve him extremely well outdoors. Everyone saw him score a 10 yard twister in the title game two years ago. I think he could shoot over .500 this year. He finished last year at .494, it’s perfectly plausible to me that this year more of his shots go in the goal than shots that don’t. Taylor was the only college player named to Team USA for the USA Lacrosse Experience in Indianapolis; he’s already shared the field with pros and been successful. In those three Sixes games, Taylor registered seven goals and two assists. 


ATTACK


  1. CJ Kirst, Cornell

  2. Chris Kavanagh, Notre Dame

  3. Coulter Mackesy, Princeton

  4. Jake Taylor, Notre Dame

  5. Sam King, Harvard


Players to Watch: Michael Long, Owen Hiltz, Eric Malever, Jackson Eicher, Nick Dupuis, Daniel Kelly, Russell Melendez, Will Byrne


Is it the 2024 draft at attack? Not really. But that doesn’t mean it’s a way down draft. Four of these players already appear in the top ten and we covered them there. Clearly teams looking for attack help, particularly lefty attack, will have options in this draft. That number five player is going to be a nice prize for someone. Sam King doesn’t care about his matchup, he’s going to impact the game. Last year, against Princeton (guarded by Colin Mulshine) he had two goals and four assists. Against Penn (guarded by Brendan Lavelle) he had six goals and an assist. In 2023 against Cornell (guarded by Gavin Adler) he had a goal and two assists with no turnovers. I won’t be naive, it’s not like King dusted those players over and over to individual effort goals and points, but there’s enough of it on tape to be eye catching. King has been the QB at Harvard since he arrived on campus, he has no problem stepping into a challenging new environment and catching up on speed quickly, which makes him a safe player to draft. 


Michael Long is actually the one who led Cornell in scoring a year ago, not CJ Kirst. Long can be a QB or a complimentary player. He’s an outstanding shooter, arguably the best in the draft. For his career he shoots just over 43%, and 75% of shots are on cage. He’s a well balanced, sound, quality player. Owen Hiltz should be an early round pick. There is a laser precision to the way he plays. He has excellent vision, and he can let the ball go, for a pass or a shot, from every conceivable release point. Usually you think of box players as more rough and tumble types, Hiltz doesn’t have to play that way. He can play the physical game, or can just carve you up without the physicality. With Hiltz, someone is always open. If he doesn’t have the ball, it’s him, he’s open. If he does, you’re open, even if you don’t quite think you are. 


MIDFIELD, TUCKER DORDEVIC DIVISION (Offense First Weapons)


  1. Sam English, Princeton/Syracuse

  2. Andrew McAdorey, Duke

  3. Griffin Schutz, Virginia


Players to watch: Eric Spanos, Matt Traynor, Hugh Kelleher, Aidan Blake, Aidan Carroll, Ryan Bell, Noah Armitage, Jack Dowd, Ryan Cohen


We covered the top two above. I consider there to be a pretty big gap between the top two and the rest of the field here. Schutz is a converted attackman (at UVA, who isn’t). He seems to have bought in to the change, and has been on the field since his freshman year at UVA. Physically, he’s a load. He lives in the weightroom. More accurately the weightroom lives with him; the story his freshman year was he had a bench in his dorm room. He’s listed at 6’3, 220 lbs, and that’s solid muscle. At the pro level, he’ll have to go back into his attackman bag of tricks and be a threat from both above and behind the goal, able to beat shorties consistently. Pro level SSDMs know how to play the leverage game and can cover a dodger who can only win with physicality, it’s not enough to just be big and strong. If Schutz is more versatile this spring, both as a downhill dodger and invert weapon, he’ll help his stock.


Eric Spanos is physically built for the PLL. 6’5, 220 lbs, has played plenty of midfield for Maryland but expect to see him at attack some too. There were stretches last spring where Spanos looked like one of maybe two or three guys on the Terps who consistently win a matchup. A circumstance like that, when it comes to pro future, really actually helps Spanos case. Defenses know that when it comes to dodgers, they need to handle Spanos and Erksa. The game starts with a defense keying on Spanos as a weapon. And he was still productive and impactful. Jack Koras had a similar type role at Maryland and found his way to being a Whipsnakes roster regular. Spanos could be on a similar path, although he shouldn’t go undrafted. I spoke to a former high level college coach, who had some pro experience, about evaluating PLL midfield prospects. His advice? When in doubt, take John Tillman coached midfielders. 


I’ve been a big Hugh Kelleher fan since his sophomore year at Cornell. The Big Red used him exceptionally well, subbing him on last so he could take a downhill dodge at a defender who ended up looking like they were trying to stop a freight train. Kelleher is at his best in those situations, when he can get a good run at his man. From a stop, or on wing dodges where he doesn’t have enough room to really get himself going, he isn’t as effective. If that changes this year and he becomes more dangerous in other dodging scenarios, Kelleher could really shoot up the draft board. 


Ryan Bell is an interesting player to watch. He might be considered a bit undersized at the midfield spot, but he’s played both attack and midfield effectively at Providence. Only two players in the country had more assists on a per game basis than Bell last year: Matt Brandau and Nick Dupuis. Only nine players in the country had 45+ assists last year, five of them played in the PLL last summer, the others are Bell, Dupuis, Joey Spallina, and Louis Perfetto (who is PLL good). Bell could be in the mix come draft night as a righty attack option, or as a midfielder best used in inverts and from wings as a dodge to feed player. He could be a guy to grab late, or to bring to camp as a post draft add.


Jack Dowd is a DIII transfer to Maryland who might turn a few heads this year. He had over 260 points in 85 games at Salisbury. From the midfield. He’s 6’5, 225 lbs, built for the PLL. He plays with more speed than you’d expect from someone at that size. A two time first team All American. If he finds his stride with the Terps and can stay at that high level after making the jump to Big Ten lacrosse, he’ll get a camp invite at a minimum from a PLL club. 


MIDFIELD, LATRELL HARRIS DIVISION (SSDMs and Two Way players)


  1. Ben Ramsey, Notre Dame

  2. Casey Wilson, Denver

  3. Patrick Hackler, Yale/Johns Hopkins


Players to Watch: Carter Rice, Andrew O’Berry, Max Krevsky, Zack Goorno, Jack Gray


This is a hell of a group, particularly if you consider Sam English part of it. Ramsey is elite as noted above. Casey Wilson could have been a PLL draftee multiple times already; he was standing out as an SSDM with Team Canada as a sophomore. The latest in a line of very good SSDMs for the Pios, Wilson has that typical build for them at 6’2, 200 lbs. He has an extensive box background, playing for the Victoria Shamrocks in the summer. He led the BCJLL in points in 2019. He can cover exceptionally well, even out of the invert, and is skilled as a ball handler so he’s a threat in transition. Wilson can be part of the riding or clearing unit. He’s got Ian MacKay like versatility. Patrick Hackler is a similar player. At Yale, he took  faceoff wings, played on man down, was part of the top SSDM pair, and also could have been a first line midfielder for them but ended up on second line more often just in the interest of preserving energy. He was part of Team USA for the Birmingham World Games in Sixes. Describing him as “two way” sells him short because he’s useful in many more than two ways. He’s at Hopkins this year for a grad year. 


Andrew O’Berry quietly put together an outstanding career at Harvard as an SSDM. In 2024 he was the top shorty on the team, and team captain. In the Ivy, top SSDM is a rough job. Offenses like Princeton, Yale, Penn, and Cornell run deep, sometimes putting more than four pole-worthy players on the field. Harvard played UVA last year, who put converted attackmen all over their midfield. He stood out in each of Harvard’s biggest games as a defender comfortably covering pro level dodgers. He’s taking his grad year at UNC this year, and will once again be tasked with defending deep and dangerous offenses like Duke and Syracuse, all the more opportunity for him to build his pro draft resume. 


Krevsky is a two way midfielder in the same vein as Hackler. He’ll sub into the game on the offensive end, and then just stay on. He can play defense, be part of the ride or clear, even play man up/man down if need be. At 6’2, 200 lbs, he’s got a pro build. He’s been elected Yale’s captain this year, and while the attack with Leo Johnson and Chris Lyons get a ton of attention, expect to see Krevsky and players like Brad Sharp be leaned on in the midfield. Krevsky uses physicality to get to spots, I think he’s best dodging from high wings into the middle of the field. If he shows the ability to dodge to feed this year, or attack from more varied spots on the field, he’ll climb the board. 


Goorno is a DIII transfer to Maryland who’s been the best SSDM in DIII the last two years running. He also has that 6’0ish, 200ish lbs build. He had 60+ GBs for three straight seasons, and added a very respectable 61 points in three years from the SSDM spot. Like some of the other transfers, going to the top of the DI stage is a major opportunity and challenge, but Goorno has the ability to stand out. In putting together DIII All Americans, we talked to a number of coaches in the NESCAC and around the country. When we asked who the best SSDM in the nation was, most of them answered, “you mean other than Goorno?” That says a lot.


DEFENSE/LSM


  1. Levi Verch, St Joseph’s

  2. Brendan Lavelle, Penn

  3. AJ Pilate, Army

  4. Colin Mulshine, Princeton

  5. Michael Grace, RIT/Syracuse


Players to Watch: Ben Wayer, Scott Smith, Jimmy Freehill, Mitchell Dunham, John DeFazio, Greg Campisi, Pace Billings, Max Yates, Jackson Canfield


I don’t split LSM and close defenders for this, so your results may vary based on team need. A team who loves where they are down low but needs an LSM probably skips right past some of the players I have at the top. That said, the top two we covered already above. When it comes to AJ Pilate, he only drops a little bit because he’s a service academy player. Reminder, I do Big Board rankings based on how likely I think a player is to be a successful pro. AJ Pilate has been the number one defender since his freshman year at West Point. That alone is an accomplishment considering the tradition of excellent team and individual defense in that program. That puts him among players like, most recently, Johnny Surdick and Marcus Hudgins. Pilate would be a plug and play pro, but any team evaluating him has to also evaluate his long term availability given service commitments. Drafting him probably means you get a year or two of an exceptional defender, and then it might be a position of need again. I have no doubt he’ll be successful immediately, but it’s likely a quick career for him. Colin Mulshine will come into the year with a whole lot of tape against CJ Kirst, and he looks awfully good in that tape. It’s never a bad move to draft the guy who has already shown he can cover the top pick in the draft (see: Jack Kielty). Mike Grace is another Team Canada pole who’s been a force for some time. At RIT, he occasionally bumped all the way into the offensive end on rides. He played down low, he took wings, he can move all over the field. He’s set to play close defense this year for Syracuse, but expect to see him make a serious impact in transition. 


As noted above, a team could easily use Verch as an LSM. For those that don’t, I’d consider Ben Wayer to be the next best thing in this draft. I thought Wayer had an All American season at the position a year ago and voted as such. He had more GBs than every other pole in DI, including several faceoff specialists. He didn’t have gaudy CT numbers, but 26 is still damn good, and he had a very respectable 13 points on the season. Ground balls in the UVA defensive end frequently ended up in the stick of Wayer, and he got them to the offensive end in a hurry. If I had to pick now, I’d say he’ll be the highest scoring pole in DI this spring. 


Smith was drafted last year and returned to Hopkins, so he should be back in the draft pool. He projects as a solid close defender, and to me he stands out most off the ground. He has very good instincts with the ball. 


John DeFazio is a DIII player who could be drafted, and at a minimum I’d expect to be with someone for training camp. He’s been a DIII Player of the Year already, with a good shot at winning the honor twice. He’s as good on ground balls as any pole in college lacrosse. And he has his best games on the biggest stages. In the title game against Tufts in 2023, he scored a goal and had three GBs. He’s torched CNU multiple times. He finished last year with 99 ground balls and 54 CTs. He’s always around the ball making something positive happen. In an era where players like Jake Piseno are super valuable at the pole spot because of their prowess between the lines and in transition, DeFazio should get PLL looks. 


One other defender I didn’t list above, Ohio State’s Bobby Van Buren. He’s a senior for the Buckeyes this year, but I believe he has eligibility remaining. If he declares for the draft this year, he’ll be one of the first defenders taken. He’s a special talent down low. The whole list basically drops down a spot to make room for him at or near the top. 


FACEOFF SPECIALIST


  1. Will Coletti, Army

  2. Machado Rodriguez, Yale

  3. Will Lynch, Notre Dame


Players to Watch: Matt Paolatto, Matt Constantinides


Coletti will have the same concerns that Pilate does. He’s at a service academy, so PLL clubs will have to consider that his commitments after school likely shorten his career. He was a 1st team All American a year, by a unanimous vote at the midseason mark. He’s had 100+ ground balls in three straight seasons, and is already the all time leader in faceoff wins and GBs at Army. He’s also had 11 points in each of the last two seasons. He’s hit double digit turnovers once in three years. 


Rodriguez is a senior at Yale who presumably could take a grad year outside the Ivy. He picked up an injury last spring that caused him to miss a good amount of time, but when he was healthy, he looked like one of the best in America. He plays like his hair is on fire, it’s all gas no brakes as soon as the whistle blows. He wants to win it, go forward, and attack. This might take some coaching in the PLL, as it can be a double edged sword. It’s helpful to get forward and attack a 32 second clock, even if he just takes a possession shot after wins. But if the aggression turns into recklessness, and turnovers, that's bad news. A quick turnover in the 32, giving the other team an immediate 52 seconds, is about the worst outcome that can happen post faceoff. 


Will Lynch’s best asset in my eyes is that he’s best in the biggest spots. Just look at his May last year. Won the matchup against UVA, Duke, Albany, Georgetown, and Denver. Luke Wierman got the better of him in the title game, but earlier in the year, Lynch had a 12/18 day against Maryland. His faceoff percentage jumped up to .612 last year. The reason I have him behind the other two is that before last year, he hadn’t had a season over .500. Another consistent successful season this spring, and he’ll find his way to the pros.


Paolatto was the best in DIII at Union, and through the fall, looks like he has a solid grasp on the top spot at Rutgers. He had a career winning percentage of .692 at Union, picking up 494 GBs in three years, and committing a grand total of 37 turnovers in that span. A big year in the Big Ten could put Paolatto on coaches' radars.


GOALIE


  1. Emmet Carroll, Penn

  2. Dylan Renner, Adelphi

  3. Michael Gianforcaro, Princeton/North Carolina


Players to Watch: Jack Fracyon, Logan McNaney, Connor Theriault


We covered Carroll in the Top Ten section. If you only watch DI lacrosse, you’re missing out on a special goaltender. Adelphi’s Dylan Renner is the real deal. His season save percentage in 2024 was 64.7%, which was the best in America regardless of division. In 19 games, he gave up double digit goals twice. His save totals in five games in the month of May last year: 13, 15, 15, 17, 15, the last of those is the NCAA championship. He’s an Enners Award and a Kelly Award winner. From April until the season’s end, he had a game under 60% in goal once, and a game over 80% twice. This summer, he had interest from DI programs when his name hit the portal, but he decided to return to Adelphi for a last year. He’s good enough to play for anyone in America. If you’ve watched him, you know, Renner is animated. Keep watching him after a clear or when the ball is at the other end. He’ll talk to himself, talk to the sideline, he bounces around, hypes himself up, he’s a walking proof to the “goalies are all a little bit weird” theory. But when you watch him, when you see all the little quirks and idiosyncrasies, you see a ton of confidence, and you see zero fear. He looks like he can’t wait for the next shot to come his way. Once it’s time to lock in and the opposing offense is set, he’s dialed. He’s a combination of skill, physical gifts, and competitiveness that’s rare. Call me crazy. Yes, I really would take him ahead of every goalie in DI outside of Carroll, and I’m surprised to not even see him mentioned on other early drafts or boards. The next goalie I’d consider  drafting is Michael Gianforcaro, who was stellar at Princeton and now takes his grad year at UNC. The defensive personnel  in front of him at UNC won’t be as good as it was with the Tigers, we’ll learn a bit more about Gianforcaro as the year goes on as a result. He had a 20 save game against Maryland, a pair of 16 save games against an excellent Yale offense. In his starter years at Princeton, his season GAA never cracked 11.


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