There are a lot of similarities between Jackson Morrill and his father, Mike.
Both grew up in Baltimore to US Lacrosse Hall-of-Fame fathers. Both are and were stellar attackmen. Both played with a high IQ to outsmart opponents and earn big roles. But one similarity came to fruition only this past season when Jackson made the decision to spend his fifth year of eligibility at Denver to play for coach Bill Tierney, who coached Mike as an assistant coach at Johns Hopkins in the 1980s.
Tierney and Mike won the 1985 and 1987 national titles with those dominant Blue Jays teams. Now, Jackson is going into the first round of the 2021 NCAA Tournament looking for his second ring. For that chase to be under the same coach who helped his dad get two of his own isn’t lost on just how incredible that would be.
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Denver coach Bill Tierney says Ethan Walker is “fearless.”
So in overtime of a hard-fought game, with the Big East Tournament No. 1 seed on the line, who else is going to get the ball?
Walker caught a pass behind the net around his ankles, dove up between a pair of Villanova defenders and scored, giving No. 10 Denver a 11-10 win against No. 16 Villanova inside Villanova Stadium and clinching a share of the Big East regular-season crown.
“He’s fearless. There’s not a scared bone in his body. He’s not scared of the situation. He’s not afraid of big guys. He’s not afraid of me,” said Tierney. “He’s the guy you want to come up with it.”
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A draft class of 32 of the most accomplished players of their respective programs joined the PLL ranks on Monday night. From Tae Kwon Do black belts to water polo goalies, many of them have other talents off the field too.
From IL feature stories to the gold mine that is team player bios, here is one fact about each 2021 PLL College Draft selection.
1. Jeff Teat, Atlas: IL’s first-ever No. 1 recruit (in the class of 2016) from Canada became just the third player ever to be selected first in both outdoor and indoor professional drafts, joining Kevin Crowley in 2011 and Lyle Thompson in 2015.