Two year men’s lacrosse captain Bobby Atwell left the team last week for personal reasons according to UMBC athletic officials. Atwell was a preseason third-team All-American despite missing all of the 2009 season with a torn Anterior Cruciate Ligament, and said he felt 100 percent on the field in an interview with Alexander Pyles of…
Filed under: Sports | Comments (0)In heavy rains and 25 m.p.h. winds the men’s lacrosse team dropped their third straight, falling to #6 Princeton, 10-5. With the loss UMBC has fallen to 1-4, their worst start since 2005 when they started with the same record, and may have lost any chance of an at large big for the N.C.A.A. tournament….
Filed under: Sports | Comments (0)For the third time in four games the UMBC men’s lacrosse team sent a new goalie in to mind the net. This time it was sophomore Brian McCullough to start against No. 5 Johns Hopkins University. Prior to the game McCullough had played just fewer than four minutes, all of which were last season. Against…
Filed under: Sports | Comments (0)On September 30, 2009 three year assistant Rob Cross left UMBC to take a job as the assistant head coach at Harvard, specializing in offense, an area that UMBC has done very well in the last few years. With the open position Don Zimmerman went on a search for a replacement and today he found…
Filed under: Sports | Comments (0)Press Release from UMBC Athletics: UMBC head men’s lacrosse coach Don Zimmerman and his staff are pleased to welcome 19 newcomers to the Retrievers’ program for the fall of 2009. The largest incoming class in UMBC’s Division I history includes 18 freshmen and one transfer and is comprised of a dozen attackmen/midfielders, six defensemen/long-stick midfielders…
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