1. It's been a banner year for rookies in Major League Lacrosse, but Florida's Dylan Molloy and Chesapeake's Josh Byrne are emerging as the favorites to win the league's Rooke of the Year honor. Molloy had a career-high six goals in Florida's 18-12 win over Charlotte on Saturday and has 19 goals in seven games. Byrne had seven goals in his Bayhawks' debut on June 10 and has had at least four goals in each of Chesapeake's last three games. Byrne has 28 goals in seven games.

2. One of the best games of the 2017 Rathbones FIL Women's Lacrosse World Cup was England's 10-9 overtime win against Australia in the bronze medal game — a result that gave the host nation its first World Cup medal in 12 years. England coach Phil Collier said, "The medal is tangible proof of the progress we have made."

3. Maryland replaced assistant coach Kevin Conry, the new head coach at Michigan, with a former great – Jesse Bernhardt. Bernhardt, a two-time All-American for the Terps, and a current member of the 2018 U.S. training team, was the defensive coordinator at Princeton last year.

WHAT WE’RE READING

• US Lacrosse announced 14 new programs have joined the Urban Lacrosse Alliance, bringing the total number of programs to 55. US Lacrosse will host its first-ever affiliates conference for these programs at its national headquarters in Sparks, Md., on August 5-6.

• The World Cup isn’t the only way for lacrosse players to see a foreign country. Lehigh’s Olivia Kelly and Kaitlyn Quinn spent the summer studying in Belguim.

• The University of New Hampshire will be getting a new facility for its soccer and women’s lacrosse programs.

• Lacrosse All-Stars takes a look at Scotland’s national team as it begins to prepare for next summer’s FIL World Championship in Israel. Scotland had its best finish ever in 2014, finishing sixth, and will move up to the Blue Division for the 2018 championship.

WHAT WE’RE WATCHING

Take a look back at the U.S. team’s gold medal win over Canada from Saturday with this highlight package by US Lacrosse video manager Mike Wallin.

One of the hardest things in making lacrosse safer is having enough injury data to make informed decisions. Lisa Hepburn, a scientist with the MedStar Sports Medicine Research Center, talks about how anyone that cares about the sport can help contribute.

WHAT’S ON TAP

• The International World Games opened last week, and lacrosse will make its debut on Thursday with the United States women's team playing Poland in the first game. We'll have a look at the event later today on USLaxMagazine.com.

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