
He set school and WPIAL records with 88 goals as a junior in 2022 after first breaking the school scoring record with 77 as a sophomore. Henry signed with the Golden Eagles last fall out of Shady Side Academy in Pittsburgh as a high-scoring attackman. He started the final 10 games of the year in the midfield and tallied multiple goals in four of his final six contests.īlanc has scored 34 goals in 29 career games played after earning a redshirt during his true freshman campaign at UMass in 2021. The native of Cortlandt Manor, New York also played for Team Puerto Rico at the 2018 event.īlanc completed his second season with the Golden Eagles during the spring of 2023 as the squad's third-leading scorer with 18 goals and was fifth in points with 21. 526 win percentage (100-of-190) and 52 ground balls. Hershman played four years for the Golden Eagles from 2017-20 and won a career-best 100 faceoffs as a junior in 2019 with a. Jared Hershman – Team Puerto Rico (Pool C) 6 seed in the NCAA tournament in the program's fourth season of existence.

He was a USILA Third Team All-American as a senior in 2016 when the Golden Eagles earned the No. Richard had made previous appearances with Team USA in the MLL All-Star game and the Fall Classic. Grill, had been a member of the Team USA training roster, but had not played in an international event. Richard, along with Byrnes and former MU teammate B.J. He is one of four short-stick defensive midfielders on the Team USA roster and will make his first international appearance for the Americans. Richard is currently an assistant coach at MU and plays professionally for Atlas LC in the PLL. He currently plays professionally for Waterdogs LC in the PLL, which he helped to the 2022 PLL title, and Panther City Lacrosse Club in the National Lacrosse League. He also became the first former MU men's lacrosse player to earn induction in the Marquette M Club Hall of Fame in 2022. The two-time second team All-PLL defenseman captured a gold medal with Team USA in the sixes event at the 2022 World Games in Alabama and was the 2019 Major League Lacrosse Defensive Player of the Year.īyrnes was a USILA Second Team All-American during his senior season at Marquette in 2016 and holds the MU program records for caused turnovers and ground balls. Team USA is the reigning World Champion after claiming gold in Israel in 2018 and has finished first or second at every world championship since the event began in 1967.īyrnes established himself as one of the best long-pole players in the world and was selected to the U.S.

The United States is hosting the event for the fourth time and the first since 2014, when the Americans suffered a gold medal loss to Canada in Denver. 6,000) will host most games while the remaining contests will occur on SDSU's campus.

The University of San Diego's Torero Stadium (cap. San Diego State's 32,000-seat Snapdragon Stadium will be the site of the opening and closing ceremonies, opening game between the USA and Canada, tournament semifinals and medal games. The tournament semifinals on June 29 and the gold medal game on July 1 also air on ESPN2. Īll 107 games of the event will be available through ESPN+ in addition to six games on linear television, beginning with the Wednesday, June 21 matchup between the United States and Canada at 9 p.m. The top two A pool teams will advance directly to the quarterfinals, while the remaining three teams from the A pool will join the top nine teams from pools B-F (five first-place finishers and four second-place finishers) in the first round of the playoffs on June 27 to determine the remaining teams in the quarterfinals, which kick off on June 28. Full information on seeding, format and progression for pool play can be found here. The 30 teams that qualified for the event are split into six pools of five, with the top five nations in the rankings Pool A. Pool F – Ireland, Korea, Latvia, Netherlands, Peru ( Henry) Pool C – Czech Republic, Israel, Philippines, Puerto Rico ( Hershman), Sweden Pool B – Denmark, France ( Blanc), Japan, Uganda, Wales

Pool A – Australia, Canada, England, Haudenosaunee, United States ( Byrnes and Richard) Hershman (2017-20) competed with Puerto Rico at the 2018 World Lacrosse Championship, while Blanc (2022-pres.) and Henry, an incoming freshman, will make their tournament debuts. 20 and will make their first World Lacrosse Championship appearance. MILWAUKEE – Current and former Marquette University men's lacrosse players Luke Blanc, JP Henry, Jared Hershman, Liam Byrnes and Jacob Richard will all suit up during the 2023 World Lacrosse Men's Championship from June 21-July 1 in San Diego.īyrnes (2012-16) and Richard (2013-16) were named to the U.S.
