St. Mary's Announces Captains, Schedule
from press releases
St. Mary's City, Md. - Second-year head coach Chris Hasbrouck
announced the team captains for the 2010 campaign Monday afternoon
as well as this season's St. Mary's College of Maryland men's
lacrosse schedule. This year's captains will be returning
All-America selection, senior Ryan Alexander (Laurel,
Md./Pallotti); senior Ryder Henry (Washington, D.C./St. John's
College); and junior Bobby Cooke (Ellicott City, Md./Mt.
Hebron).
Hasbrouck said, "These are three outstanding young men who
epitomize what the St. Mary's lacrosse program is about -
commitment, effort, and intensity. All three have a great
work ethic and have developed into excellent leaders."
A 6-0, 205-lb midfielder, Alexander returns for his final season as
a three-time first team All-Capital Athletic Conference selection
and 2009 All-America honorable mention. He has been an
offensive threat for the Seahawks all three years, gaining 2007 CAC
Co-Rookie of the Year honors after leading the team with 37 goals
and 10 assists. Last season, Alexander finished third in
scoring with 32 points (21g, 11a) and could become the program's
first-ever four-time All-CAC selection as he was named a preseason
second team All-America pick in Inside Lacrosse Face-Off Yearbook
2010.
Henry, a 6-3, 200-lb long-stick midfielder, is coming off a
dominating season in which he garnered first team All-CAC honors
after leading the Seahawks with 18 caused turnovers and finishing
third with 39 groundballs.
Cooke, a 5-11, 195-lb midfielder, is a workhorse in the middle of
the field and brings a wealth of talent and experience as a
two-year starter. He was fifth in scoring with eight goals
and 12 points a year ago while scooping up 23 loose balls.
"I have no doubt they will do a great job of leading us through an
extremely demanding schedule as we look to continue to build on the
successes of last season in our pursuit of an NCAA tournament
berth," added Hasbrouck.
The 2010 schedule features 14 contests, including four against
teams ranked in the preseason Top 10 by Inside Lacrosse and
Lacrosse Magazine. The Seahawks will kick off the regular
season at home with No. 5/7 Roanoke College on February 21 followed
by a neutral site contest against Dickinson College (Feb. 27) to
wrap up the month of February.
March begins with a road game at Franklin & Marshall College
(Mar. 6) followed by Spring Break games at Seahawk Stadium against
College of Wooster (Mar. 10) and SUNY Plattsburgh (Mar. 14).
St. Mary's will then have a showdown with No. 6/9 Denison
University at The Severn School on March 17 before opening up
conference play with three straight home games against Marymount
(Va.) University (Mar. 24), Wesley College (Mar. 31), and Hood
College (Apr. 3).
After the Hood match-up, the Seahawks will be on the road for their
next three league tilts against No. 5/4 Salisbury University (Apr.
7), York (Pa.) College (Apr. 10), and No. 2 Stevenson University
(Apr. 13). They will wrap up CAC action at home on April 15
against the University of Mary Washington before heading into the
conference tournament which begins with first round action on April
18.
The regular-season finale will take place after the CAC tournament
when the Seahawks host Christopher Newport University on May
1. The team's four seniors will be honored at halftime as
this marks their final home game.
In Hasbrouck's first season, the Seahawks finished with an 8-7
overall record and second in the CAC standings, earning Hasbrouck
2009 CAC Coach of the Year honors. "I feel that our schedule
will go a long way to helping us achieve our goal of competing for
the CAC championship and securing an NCAA bid," commented
Hasbrouck.
"Our conference has become extremely competitive and demanding so
it was important to play as difficult a non-conference schedule as
possible. These are all great opponents and we are looking
forward to the beginning of the season," explained Hasbrouck.
The path to the conference championship looks bright as the
Seahawks return eight of last year's top 10 scorers as well as
eight of 10 starters. This group of returners helped the
program registered its first win over Salisbury University in 32
years last season, earning them the second seed in the CAC playoffs
and a first-round bye.
