Latrell Harris Shows Age Is Just a Number – How He Went from High School to NLL
Latrell Harris didn’t mean to make the NLL at 18. Though he played many sports growing up in St. Catharines, Ontario, lacrosse was the one that stuck. His large size for his age and appreciation for physicality meant lax fit him well. As he progressed in the sport, he narrowed in on his focus: a […]
Latrell Harris Player Profile – From High School Straight to NLL
Latrell Harris was selected No. 12 overall by the Toronto Rock in the second round of the 2016 NLL Draft at the age of 18. He took his talents directly from public school to the professional stage. Now 22, Harris has been among the professional ranks for multiple years and established himself within the NLL. […]
Wes Berg Uses His Luck to Give Others Opportunities
Wes Berg has won a Minto Cup, an NCAA Division I national championship, an MLL title and a World Lacrosse Championships gold medal. But what he’s most proud of from his career never happened in a game. In 2019, Berg was traded from the Calgary Roughnecks to the San Diego Seals. It opened him up […]
Wes Berg Player Profile – A Recap of the Seal’s Career
At 27, Wes Berg already has a number of championships under his belt. That’s why we’ve put together this Wes Berg player profile. It started in 2010 with the Coquitlam Adanacs. Berg helped lead the team to a Minto Cup win, a first for the program. In 2011, he won the Bill Dickinson Trophy as […]
Jeff Shattler Wrap Up – A Collection of Content
Jeff Shattler has been featured prominently on Lax All Stars this last month, so we’re putting all that content in one place for you to easily navigate and digest. We went deep with the two-time NLL champion and former NLL MVP, and we want the lacrosse community to be able to find it all together […]
2018 NLL Cup MVP – Jeff Shattler Cements His Legacy
When the Saskatchewan Rush won the NLL championship in 2018, Jeff Shattler was named 2018 NLL Cup MVP, adding a new exclamation mark to his already illustrious professional lacrosse career. It took three games to decide the winner of the 2018 crown between the Rush and the Rochester Knighthawks. In Game 1, the Rush used […]
Jeff Shattler & The Power of Adaptation
Jeff Shattler has never been a high-maintenance laxer. In fact, he cared so little about what tools he took to tackle his trade, Shattler used to play with totally fresh sticks. “A lot of people laugh at me when I say this, and a lot of people don’t know this: I used to use lacrosse […]
Dhane Smith Catch Up: Recapping the Coverage
Dhane Smith has been a prominent feature in Lax All Stars coverage for the last week and two weeks ago as we looked into his history in lacrosse, his experience in Buffalo, his multisport lifestyle and more. To wrap up two total weeks of Dhane Smith mania, we’ve put it all in one place for […]
Dhane Smith Embraces Golf & Tennis in Lacrosse Hiatus
Dhane Smith is a multisport athlete. This is something that’s known – his football and hockey histories are documented, and Lax All Stars previously looked into how his family’s multi-sport background helped propel him into professional lacrosse. But football and hockey have fell by the wayside years ago in favor of lacrosse. How is Smith […]
Shattler Lacrosse Academy Could Develop Next Great First Nations Talent
The Shattler Lacrosse Academy offers a whole host of programs, but the most unique is the Aboriginal Program. Jeff Shattler, the man behind the Shattler Lacrosse Academy, has played in the NLL for more than a decade and a half, won league MVP once and the NLL Cup twice. The Toronto native comes from a […]
Rochester Griffins – Forgotten Teams of Lacrosse History
Rochester Griffins: We Hardly Knew Ye They were the champs, then they were gone. After the inaugural season of NLL action in 1974, the Rochester Griffins were World Champs. Through the season, they were at the bottom of the league in attendance and interest. Owned in majority by Pittsburgh Penguins operators Tad and Tom Potter […]
National Lacrosse League to Hold Virtual 2020 Draft September 17th
(Philadelphia, August 5, 2020) – The National Lacrosse League (@NLL), the longest-running and most successful professional lacrosse league in the world, today announced that the 2020 Entry Draft will be held on September 17th at 7:00 ET. For the first time in league history, the Entry Draft will be done virtually. Following the recent NFL, […]