Good morning. Here’s the latest from around the lacrosse world:
1. The Tewaaraton Award watch lists are out.
The Tewaaraton Foundation announced the lists Tuesday night at its annual fundraiser in New York.
Candidates include former finalists Connor Cannizzaro (Denver), Ben Reeves (Yale) and 2016 men’s winner Dylan Molloy (Brown).
On the women’s side, reigning Division I champion North Carolina has six nominees (Maggie Bill, Molly Hendrick, Marie McCool, Carly Reed, Sammy Jo Tracy and Caylee Waters), while the new NCAA single-season goals record holder Courtney Murphy (Stony Brook) also made the list.
2. Three Nike/US Lacrosse Division I Top 20 teams avoided Tuesday’s trap games.
In men’s lacrosse, No. 14 Rutgers cruised past Wagner 12-5 and No. 20 Boston University downed Bryant 12-9. No. 20 Stanford, the lone ranked women’s team in action Tuesday, used a strong second half to defeat Michigan 15-10.
3. The first in-season update of the Nike/US Lacrosse high school rankings came out Tuesday. The South Boys’ Top 10 has a new No. 1 in St. Thomas Aquinas and Vero Beach jumped to No. 3 in the South Girls’ Top 10.
4. Division I official Lellie Swords discussed her journey from playing at James Madison and coaching at Cornell, Johns Hopkins and Cincinnati to earning her “National” rating as an official in May 2015. The Dallas area resident officiated her first “home game” at the Ford Center in Frisco, Texas, when Duke defeated Stanford 12-8. “Getting on the path to college officiating was its own animal,” she said.