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The college lacrosse season is right around the corner, which means it’s time to start bantering about preseason All-Americans. We compiled a 1st, 2nd, & 3rd Team All-America list and submitted it to Inside Lacrosse for their 2018 Face-Off Yearbook as part of their IL 2018 Preseason Media All-America Team.
Given that we value transparency and accountability here at College Crosse we wanted to share our picks with all of you, our loyal readers & followers. Obviously, there are many more great players out there than there are slots, so unfortunately we had to make some cuts and lots of deserving players weren’t included. However, that is the business we’ve chosen as OBJECTIVE JOURNALISTS.
You can find our picks directly below. Please share your thoughts in the comments section. Shout out to Adam for thinking of the idea of a “Breakout Player” column; these are sophomores & juniors we wanted to highlight because we believe they will go from good to great in 2018. Anyway, without further delay here’s our 2018 Preseason All-College Crosse Team.
The 2018 Preseason All-College Crosse Team.
| Position | 1st Team | 2nd Team | 3rd Team | Breakout Player |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Position | 1st Team | 2nd Team | 3rd Team | Breakout Player |
| Attack | Pat Spencer (Loyola) | Michael Sowers (Princeton) | Ethan Walker (Denver) | Stephen Rehfuss (Syracuse) |
| Attack | Ben Reeves (Yale) | Jeff Teat (Cornell) | Grant Ament (PSU) | Jared Bernhardt (Maryland) |
| Attack | Connor Fields (Albany) | Justin Guterding (Duke) | Tre LeClaire (OSU) | Matt Gaudet (Yale) |
| Midfield | Connor Kelly (Maryland) | Joel Tinney (JHU) | Brad Smith (Duke) | Kevin Quigley (Duke) |
| Midfield | Tim Rotanz (Maryland) | Ryan Conrad (UVA) | Austin Sims (Princeton) | Bryan Costabile (Notre Dame) |
| Midfield | Dox Aitken (UVA) | Greyson Torrain (Navy) | David Symmes (Army) | Decker Curran (Michigan) |
| Defensemen | Ben Randall (OSU) | Cade Van Raaphorst (Duke) | Arman Medghalchi (Princeton) | Pat Foley (JHU) |
| Defensemen | Michael Rexrode (Rutgers) | Chris Sabia (PSU) | Aidan Hynes (Yale) | Curtis Corley (Maryland) |
| Defensemen | Johnny Surdick (Army) | Bryce Young (Maryland) | Jack Rapine (JHU) | Nick Mellen (Syracuse) |
| Goalie | Jack Concannon (Hofstra) | Tate Boyce (Providence) | Jacob Stover (Loyola) | AJ Barretto (Army) |
| Faceoff | Trevor Baptiste (Denver) | TD Ierlan (Albany) | Gerard Arceri (PSU) | Conor Gaffney (Lehigh) |
| SDSM | Zach Goodrich (Towson) | Drew Schantz (Notre Dame) | Ryan Terefenko (OSU) | Chase Williams (Princeton) |
| LSM | John Sexton (Notre Dame) | Craig Chick (Lehigh) | Connor Keating (Penn) | Matt Neufeldt (Maryland) |