Good morning. Here’s the latest from around the lacrosse world:

1. Courtney Murphy set a NCAA Division I record with 100 goals as a junior in 2016. Her senior season in 2017 was wrecked by injuries, ending with a torn ACL four games into the season. She made the decision to come back for a fifth year so she can go out on her terms in 2018. Murphy wrote a deeply honest piece about her feelings as she dealt with the injury and watched her team move on withour her.

2. A new NCAA survey revealed that lacrosse was on the leading edge of the early recruiting phenomenon, and it came at a cost. Lacrosse players had the second-lowest satisfaction rate of their overall recruiting experience of all sports. Additionally, less than 70 percent of men’s and women’s lacrosse players felt the accuracy of their expected role of the team was conveyed during recruitment.

3. Hall of Fame coach Dom Starsia shared his thoughts on the key leadership traits he's seen from players over the years. Starsia also worries about how the next generation of leaders will develop. He writes, "Youth sports are so adult-organized these days, where/how would a young athlete begin to develop leadership skills?"

4. US Lacrosse awarded 21 grants through its National Diversity Grant Program. The grants are worth $32,500 and are expected to directly impact over 3,200 participants. This is the second set of awards through the grant program this year. US Lacrosse awarded $53,000 earlier in the year.

5. The National Lacrosse League announced its 2018 playoff format, which will include single elimination division semifinal and final games followed by a best of three Champions Cup.

WHAT WE’RE READING

• A great read and look at Ezekiel Brown, the 11-year-old cancer survivor embraced by the Denver Outlaws and his youth coach with Denver City Lax, Eric Law.

• William Smith head coach Anne Phillips had the opportunity to share lunch with legendary Heron coach Pat Genovese and shared her thoughts in the IWLCA’s Behind the Whistle blog.

• The IWLCA also named its assistant coaches of the year: Kerri Whitaker (University of Pennsylvania), Joe Corace (Mercy College), and Samantha Keary (University of Redlands).

• Team USA faceoff specialist Brendan Fowler is heading home to Long Island to play with the Lizards in Major League Lacrosse.

• US Lacrosse Magazine contributor Marissa Ingemi has a feature in the New England Lacrosse Journal on former Middlebury lacrosse player turned NFL kicker Stephen Hauschka.

• Two players who played key roles in Georgia’s run to the National Lacrosse League championship, Jordan Hall and Joel White, have been placed on the Holdout List due to family considerations. The team hopes to get them later in the season.

• England has tapped Richard Gartside and Alex Carnegie-Brown as its new U23 teams. English Lacrosse hopes the new teams will help bridge the gap in developing players from its U19 teams to its senior teams.

WHAT WE’RE WATCHING

The Lacrosse Network features a classic clip from an old-school Johns Hopkins-Princeton game, and make sure you turn up the sound.

NEW: Fresh edit from Princeton V. Hopkins. Talk about getting hyped for 2018 #TBT pic.twitter.com/iNnDwgbcHN

— TLN (@LacrosseNetwork) November 2, 2017

WHAT’S ON TAP

• US Lacrosse is helping to sponsor the Best of Baltimore Lacrosse Showcase, a tournament for urban middle school boys and girls teams on Saturday.

• Qualifying for the US Lacrosse Nationals continues this weekend with the NXT Harvest Classic in West Chester, Pa.

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