Wed Jan 27 2021 | Matt DaSilva | Fuel
Good morning. Here’s the latest from around the lacrosse world:
1. It’s the TD Ierlan sweepstakes, part two. For the second time in three years, Ierlan, the NCAA’s all-time leading faceoff specialist, is the most coveted transfer in the country. If the Ivy League cancels the 2021 season, the former Albany star confirmed Tuesday, he will move on from Yale and intends to finish his well-traveled college career at Denver.
2. Our 2021 NCAA Preview rollout continued with scouting reports on the No. 9-ranked Cornell men and Michigan women, respectively, as well as a feature on Middlebury’s Jane Earley the US Lacrosse Magazine Division III Women’s Preseason Player of the Year who is eager to make up for lost time.
“The doctors keep saying you can’t get too high on the highs or low on the lows. But really, every day feels like a miracle.” Casey Bocklet
It was with that same free spirit and exuberance that Bocklet left his condominium on New Year’s Day, an electric skateboard tucked under his arm. A short while later, he returned bloodied and barely conscious, with an open wound on top of his head. No one knows exactly what happened. Somehow, he walked home with enough time for his girlfriend, Lindsay Schiff, to call for an ambulance before his condition worsened.
Fri Jan 22 2021 | Kenny DeJohn | College
Just weeks after the lacrosse community rallied together to raise money for Chris Bocklet and assistant NCAA coaches on the fundraising platform GoFundMe, it has come together yet again.
Colin Clive, a 2014 graduate of Siena from Massapequa (N.Y.), tragically lost both of his parents within the same week. Clive’s mother, Barbara, died from complications of pneumonia. Dave Clive died just days after. He had a heart attack and had a stent put in before going home and suffering a fatal heart attack, Stegner said.
Clive, a former professional soccer player in the United Kingdom, was still working at age 70 to maintain health coverage for his son, who has been battling brain cancer for the past two years. According to the GoFundMe, which was written by Stegner, Clive has recently started an experimental treatment that is successfully fighting the metastatic cancer.
Both teams were active in the offseason, landing the top transfers in the portal and bringing back the majority of their seniors for another go around.
2. Former U.S. national team player Alyssa Murray was named a candidate for The World Games “Greatest Athlete of All Time” award an acknowledgement of Murray’s team- and tournament-best 19 points in the 2017 World Games in Wroclaw, Poland.
3. The IWLCA concluded its first-ever coaching symposium for students of color, “Future Leaders of the Game,” on Tuesday. Cincinnati coach Gina Oliver Thomas, the former U.S. national team player and two-time world champion, was the keynote speaker.