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

1. It’s the TD Ierlan sweepstakes, part two. For the second time in three years, Ierlan, the NCAA’s all-time leading faceoff specialist, is the most coveted transfer in the country. If the Ivy League cancels the 2021 season, the former Albany star confirmed Tuesday, he will move on from Yale and intends to finish his well-traveled college career at Denver.

2. Our 2021 NCAA Preview rollout continued with scouting reports on the No. 9-ranked Cornell men and Michigan women, respectively, as well as a feature on Middlebury’s Jane Earley — the US Lacrosse Magazine Division III Women’s Preseason Player of the Year who is eager to make up for lost time.

3. World Lacrosse announced new dates for what’s now the 2022 U21 men’s world championship. The games will be held Aug. 10-20, 2022, in Limerick, Ireland. It will mark the culmination of a busy summer of international lacrosse that also will include the 2022 World Lacrosse Women’s World Championship in Towson, Md., and The World Games 2022 in Birmingham, Ala.

WHAT WE’RE READING

• About the small-sided movement in lacrosse, an evolution that was highlighted during LaxCon 2021 — the all-virtual event hosted by US Lacrosse earlier this month.

• Inside Lacrosse’s preseason Division I men’s top 20 rankings. To no one’s surprise, Duke is No. 1, followed by Maryland, Syracuse, North Carolina and Denver in the top five.

• “The double funeral was on Monday.” The Daily Gazette with the latest on Colin Clive, the former Siena player whose parents died within five days of each other and who himself is battling metastatic brain cancer.

• Another story with Siena ties, as the Albany Times Union caught up with Zach Triner, the former Saints faceoff specialist turned long snapper for the Super Bowl-bound Tampa Bay Buccaneers.

• New UMass Lowell assistant Patrick Emmer is following in his father’s Hall of Fame footsteps.

WHAT WE’RE WATCHING

A different kind of graduation ceremony: Chris Bocklet, the former three-time All-American at Virginia and MLL/PLL pro, getting discharged from the Shepherd Center for spinal cord and brain injury rehabilitation in Atlanta. Bocklet, who suffered a severe head injury in a Jan. 1 longboarding accident, is headed home to Florida with a long road to recovery ahead. We’ll have more on this story today.

 

 

 

 

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WHAT’S ON TAP
 

• The aforementioned follow-up on Chris Bocklet’s monthlong recuperation from a traumatic brain injury, as well as what lies ahead as he works to overcome global aphasia.

• Our 2021 NCAA Preview rollout continues with scouting reports on the No. 8-ranked Yale men and Penn women, respectively, as well as the release of the Nike/US Lacrosse Division III Women’s Preseason Top 20. (Of course, the Ivy League decision and potential fallout could happen any day now.)

• ESPN’s Anish Shroff returns to the lineup with an ode to producer John Vassallo, the man who got the Worldwide Leader to embrace lacrosse.

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