Having a 4-8 record did not prevent the Retrievers from packing the All-America East Conference teams once again. With a 3-2 conference record, finishing in second place, seven members of the team earned All-AEC selections. With 16 goals and 19 assists senior Kyle Wimer led the Retrievers in points and extended his scoring streak to…
Filed under: Sports | Comments (0)Kyle Wimer and Mike Camardo have been nominated for the America East Conference Men’s Lacrosse Player of the Year. Wimer leads UMBC with 30 points off 12 goals and a team high 18 assists. He was a pre-season first team All-American by Inside Lacrosse and currently leads the nation with a 29 straight game scoring…
Filed under: Sports | Comments (0)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)Aaron Schwartz Online Contributor The UMBC Retrievers men’s lacrosse team hosted the Villanova University Wildcats in their first home scrimmage of the 2010 season. This was a match-up of two top 20 teams from the closing polls of the 2009 season; UMBC ended last season ranked ninth in the USILA coaches poll and Villanove ranked…
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)Two former Retrievers, Brendan Mundorf and Drew Westervelt were recently selected to be apart of the 23-man roster to represent the United States in the Federation of International Lacrosse World Championship in Manchester, England from July 14-24, 2010. After Mundorf graduated in 2006, and Westervelt graduated in 2007, the two were drafted in successive years…
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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