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

1. The Premier Lacrosse League Playoffs begin this weekend and the league has announced the finalists for its 14 season-ending awards, including Connor Fields, Matt Rambo and Tom Schrieber for the Jim Brown Most Valuable Player.

The Jim Brown MVP Award nominees are:

 Connor Fields
 @rattmambo
 @TomSchreiber26 pic.twitter.com/jh43Px5alD

— Premier Lacrosse League (@PremierLacrosse) September 3, 2019

2. US Lacrosse has named 88 players to its inaugural USA Select teams for boys’ and girls’ at the U15 and U17 age groups. The teams will compete during the Fall Classic in October.

US Lacrosse named 88 players to its inaugural USA Select teams. Twenty-two players were named to the four teams, representing boys and girls at the U15 and U17 levels | https://t.co/tfKkG1xVs2 pic.twitter.com/paZvdxzKWA

— US Lacrosse (@USLacrosse) September 3, 2019

3. Diane Geppi-Aikens, Jane Miller and Robin Sheppard have been selected for induction into the Intercollegiate Women’s Lacrosse Coaches Association Hall of Fame.

4. Dom Starsia’s Letter to a Freshman, originally written in 2017, has been updated and shared again.

5. Denver moved into a tie atop the Major League Lacrosse standings with a convincing win over Boston. Phil Shore with the weekly MLL Notebook.

WHAT WE’RE READING

• A report in the Yale Daily News says that six senior women’s lacrosse players have left the program.

• A look at Leah Holmes experience helping the U.S. women’s U19 team bring home a gold medal.

• Judy Baxter and Beth Patterson built a powerhouse girls’ lacrosse program at Eden Prairie (Minn.) High School and played major roles in developing the sport throughout the state. Twenty years after starting the program, they’re stepping away.

• Adrienne Carr, the head women’s lacrosse coach at Fairleigh Dickinson-Florham for the last 15 seasons, announced she is stepping down.

• Zach Wilfong has been named as the head coach for men’s lacrosse at LaRoche.

• Kacie Lewis has been hired as an assistant women’s lacrosse coach at Bryant.

WHAT WE’RE WATCHING

Davey Emala breaking down the ridiculous skills of John Grant Jr., who is still piling up goals for the Denver Outlaws at age 44..

"It might look like he's rumblin' and stumblin' and just trying to get to the goal. What he's doing is setting up his defender." @DaveyEmala_0 on how @JohnGrantJr24 is still scoring unreal goals at age 44. Full segment on the new Lacrosse Weekly on ESPN+ https://t.co/bVl7wzuPXW pic.twitter.com/PsjZJWhOUq

— Lax Sports Network (@LaxSportsNet) September 3, 2019

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