Steele Stanwick

Steele Stanwick led Loyola Blakefield to back-to-back Maryland Interscholastic Athletic Association A Conference championships in 2007-08 before doing the same for the University of Virginia this spring. On Thursday evening, the junior attackman from Roland Park garnered the sport's top individual honor as well, winning the coveted Tewaaraton Trophy, awarded annually to the top male collegiate lacrosse player. Stanwick becomes the third Cavalier and the first former Baltimore-area prep player to win the award since Friends School grad and Johns Hopkins senior midfielder Kyle Harrison was picked in 2005.

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MEN Steele Stanwick, Virginia Junior, Baltimore, attackman The Loyola graduate lifted the No. 2 Cavaliers (4-0) to their most significant victory of the season when he grabbed a loose ball and deposited it into the open net to give Virginia an 11-10 win against No.5 Stony Brook with 44 seconds remaining in overtime. Stanwick was named the Offensive Player of the Week by the Atlantic Coast Conference. He added three goals and four assists in the squad's 22-6 rout of the Virginia Military Institute on Monday.

Virginia coach Dom Starsia has always hedged a little over talk of parity in college lacrosse, but he is slowly crossing over. Lacrosse is becoming more like the NFL. There are consistent winners every year, but the team that gets hot at the end has a good shot at winning the title. No. 3 Duke is on the comeback trail after a slow start. No. 12 Johns Hopkins had a strong rebound performance against Virginia a week ago. And the No. 13 Cavaliers (5-4) don't have a signature win all season.

Et cetera Steele Stanwick , Burkhart set for MLL debuts The Ohio Machine of Major League Lacrosse announced Tuesday that 2011 Tewaaraton Award winner Steele Stanwick (Loyola High) and fellow rookie Marshall Burkhart (Johns Hopkins) will make their MLL debuts this weekend at 7p.m. Saturday against the visiting Long Island Lizards. The game will be shown live on ESPN3. Stanwick, an attackman, was selected No. 2 overall by the Machine in the MLL draft; Burkhart, a defensive midfielder, was chosen at No. 50. The game will mark a homecoming for Burkhart, who won a state championship at Dublin Jerome High in Ohio.

College lacrosse Stanwick, Marlatt earn weekly honors Virginia senior attackman Steele Stanwick (Loyola High) was named Atlantic Coast Conference Offensive Player of the Week on Tuesday after tying a career high with eight points to lead Virginia to a 12-8 conference win Saturday at No. 9 Maryland. He also picked up a team-high five ground balls. Other men's honor: Notre Dame sophomore midfielder Jim Marlatt (River Hill) was selected to the Big East Conference Weekly Honor Roll after scoring a game- and career-high three goals in Sunday's 13-6 victory overSt.

Steele Stanwick , a Loyola High graduate and the 2011 Tewaaraton Award winner at Virginia, has signed an endorsement deal with Under Armour.  The Baltimore native, now playing for the Ohio Machine of Major League Lacrosse, graduated last spring as the all-time leading scorer (269 points) in Virginia history after three times earning All-America honors and winning the United States Intercollegiate Lacrosse Association's Jack Turnbull Award as the nation's top attackman in 2012 as a senior.  He joins a roster of Under Armour-endorsed lacrosse athletes that includes former Maryland attackman Grant Catalino , who signed last fall.

College lacrosse 5 local players added to Tewaaraton watch lists The Tewaaraton Foundation announced on Wednesday the second and final round of additions to the watch list for the Tewaaraton Award, given to the best men's and women's lacrosse players in the country. Six players have been added to the men's watch list, from which the 12th annual Tewaaraton Award winner will be selected and honored May 31 at the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of the American Indian in Washington.

With conference play heating up, and April - a month that's all about improvement - on the doorstep, I solicited questions on Twitter (@QKessenich) to see what's on people's minds.   National College Lacrosse League @NCLLax: If QK can change just one rule for 2013, what would he add or delete from the NCAA rulebook? QK: The No. 1 rule change on everybody's mind is the shot clock. Shot-clock advocates are growing, but change is a touchy subject. The rules committee works in a two-year cycle, and this offseason offers it the opportunity to enact reform.

The Loyola lacrosse team lost two of its first three games this season, but the Dons didn't lose perspective. "Obviously, no one wants to start the season 1-2," senior midfielder Tim Donovan said after a season-opening rout of Penn Charter was followed by narrow losses to Maryland Interscholastic Athletic Association A Conference rivals McDonogh and Boys' Latin.

When Virginia opened the season with four consecutive wins - including a 13-12 overtime decision over Drexel - the program appeared to have recovered from the graduation losses of attackmen Steele Stanwick and Chris Bocklet and midfielder Colin Briggs, defenseman Matt Lovejoy and goalkeeper Rob Fortunato. Since then, however, the No. 13 Cavaliers have dropped four of their past five games and their last three, including a 15-8 setback at the hands of No. 12 Johns Hopkins in the Konica Minolta Face-Off Classic at M&T Bank Stadium in Baltimore Saturday.

Johns Hopkins has dominated this series, winning 53 of 82 contests and the last two. No. 13 Virginia (5-3) has dropped three of its last four games, but the offense ranks sixth in Division I in scoring with a 12.9 average. The Cavaliers have unearthed a quarterback in junior attackman Nick O'Reilly, who leads the team in assists (16) and points (30) after redshirting last season. The No. 12 Blue Jays are 5-2, but they are 0-2 against ranked opponents. Johns Hopkins boasts an offense tied for fourth in scoring and is getting plenty of possessions via senior faceoff specialist Mike Poppleton, who has won 71.1 percent (96-of-135)

Each week, The Baltimore Sun publishes a Q&A with a college lacrosse player or coach to get you more acquainted with the player and his/her team. Today's guest is North Carolina senior attackman Marcus Holman , who leads the team in goals (18) and assists (14), and is an early candidate to be named a Tewaaraton Award finalist. Holman, a Baltimore native and Gilman graduate who recorded 39 goals and 35 assists last season, will lead the No. 10 Tar Heels (4-3) into Saturday's game with Atlantic Coast Conference rival and top-ranked Maryland (6-0)

When a program captured five national championships - most recently in 2011 - it's almost impossible to be ignored. But that's how Virginia has been feeling this season. Despite a 5-1 record, the No. 13 Cavaliers have been coasting through February and March without much media scrutiny or fanfare. And that doesn't bother coach Dom Starsia one bit. “This is a year in which we're better served to be able to work on ourselves for a while before we step out,” he said Friday morning.

Colleges Loyola men win in double OT, clinch MAAC tourney berth Sophomore Connor Thompson scored the game-winning goal in double overtime to lift host Loyola (11-5-1, 6-1-0 Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference) to a 3-2 victory over Saint Peter's (4-11, 2-4). The Greyhounds moved into sole possession of first place and clinched a spot in the four-team MAAC tournament. Freshman Larry Ndjock scored twice for Loyola to move his season total to 12 goals, the most of any Greyhound since 2008.

Running Showalters, KidsPeace to host 5K/walk Sat. in Canton Orioles manager Buck Showalter and his wife, Angela , have teamed up with KidsPeace to host the third annual KidsPeace Trick-or-Trot 5K run/one-mile walk Saturday in Canton. The event is open to all ages and features Halloween activities in addition to the race. The entry fee for the run is $35, which includes an Under Armour T-shirt for the first 400 registered runners. Families who plan to do the mile walk will pay $20 and are encouraged to dress in their favorite Halloween costumes.

No. 14 Syracuse (2-0) at No. 1 Virginia (3-0) Sunday, 4:30 p.m. The Orange won last year's meeting, 12-10, at the Carrier Dome, but that was only the second time in the past nine contests that Syracuse had prevailed in the series. The Orange has surrendered just 16 goals in two games this season, but can that retooled defense contain a Cavaliers offense headlined by reigning Tewaaraton Award winner Steele Stanwick (Loyola) and fellow senior attackman Chris Bocklet?

Steele Stanwick , a Loyola High graduate and the 2011 Tewaaraton Award winner at Virginia, has signed an endorsement deal with Under Armour.  The Baltimore native, now playing for the Ohio Machine of Major League Lacrosse, graduated last spring as the all-time leading scorer (269 points) in Virginia history after three times earning All-America honors and winning the United States Intercollegiate Lacrosse Association's Jack Turnbull Award as the nation's top attackman in 2012 as a senior.  He joins a roster of Under Armour-endorsed lacrosse athletes that includes former Maryland attackman Grant Catalino , who signed last fall.

A group of former Virginia men's lacrosse players is heading to Charlottesville this weekend to play the current team and hold a free clinic to raise money for the daughters of Chris Sanderson, former goaltender for the Cavaliers and the now-Chesapeake Bayhawks of Major League Lacrosse, who died June 28 at age 38 after a 3 1/2-year battle with brain cancer. The alumni game is set for 9:30 p.m. Friday on the lower practice field. Among the alumni committed to the event are a pair of Loyola High grads: Bayhawks attackman Ben Rubeor (2007)