While we continue to wait “patiently” for the start of the 2020 Massachusetts High School lacrosse season, (May 4th – as of March 30th’s meeting of the MIAA Board of Directors) Bostonlax.net wanted to reflect on the past ten years by highlighting some of the talented student-athletes who excelled this past decade across the Bay State.
We have adjusted our release, we will be releasing a position a week, with midfielders up now.
With the assistance of select coaches, media representatives, and the BostonLax staff we came up with our All-Decade team for both the MIAA and ISL.
The players must have played at least one season of high school lacrosse in the 2010-2019 decade. While we are sure to leave many deserving standouts off of these lists, we hope that by recognizing some of these standout student-athletes and their interscholastic careers, that we can bring back some of the great memories from Massachusetts High School lacrosse over the past ten years.
First Team MIAA Midfielders All-Decade (2010-2019)
1st Team
(photo credit – masspreps.com, Wicked Local Concord & Wicked Local Walpole)
MASSACHUSETTS – Our first-team midfield is led by nine offensive midfielders, a faceoff specialist and defensive short-stick midfielder.
The first-team is highlighted by two standout Lincoln-Sudbury midfielders from the class of 2016, Connor McCarthy and Harlan Smart, along with the pride of Reading lacrosse – the Tobin brothers, Kevin Tobin ’17 and Michael Tobin ’19, three Medfield middies, offensive standout John MacLean ’16, FOGO Brian Bissell ’14, and SSDM Andrew Garfield ’17, along with Billerica standout Jeff Trainor ’16, Xaverian’s Jack Wheeler ’14, and two standouts from early in the decade – Walpole’s Ryan Izzo ’10, and Cohasset’s Thomas Flibotte ’11.
McCarthy and Smart were both 2016 All-Americans and two-time Division 1 state champions for the Warriors. The impressive duo helped define the prototypical midfielder, combining the rare combination of size, speed, and skill. The Tobin brothers amassed over 600 total points between them in their storied high school careers, helping to catapult a program – leading to a 2019 State Championship. MacLean was a lethal three-time All-American lefty sniper for Medfield, with Bissell being a dominant FOGO and jump-starting the wave of exceptional play at the Faceoff-X for the Warriors for years to come. Garfield was as good of SSDM as we have seen in recent memory, crafting his art with 293 career stops. Another lethal lefty, Trainor was a two-time All-American for Billerica and one of the top offensive midfielders in school history. Another two-time All-American in 2013 and 2014, Jack Wheeler helped lead Xaverian to a 2013 D1 State Championship and back-to-back Catholic Conference titles. Izzo and Flibotte both did a considerable amount of their work in the prior decade, but both standout middies also put up fantastic numbers, All-American seasons, and were universally respected by coaches across the state as two of the best to lace them up in the decade.
BostonLax.net All-Decade First-Team Midfielders
Connor McCarthy ’16 – Lincoln-Sudbury – Princeton
Harlan Smart ’16 – Lincoln-Sudbury – Dartmouth
Kevin Tobin ’17 – Reading – UMass Amherst
Michael Tobin ’19 – Reading – UMass Amherst
John MacLean ’16 – Medfield – Boston University
Jeff Trainor ’16 – Billerica – UMass Amherst
Jack Wheeler ’14 – Xaverian – Boston University
Ryan Izzo ’10 – Walpole – UMass Amherst
Thomas Flibotte ’11 – Cohasset – Bucknell
Brian Bissell ’14, – Medfield – Williams – FOGO
Andrew Garfield ’17 – Medfield – Quinnipiac – SSDM
BostonLax.net All-Decade Midfielders
(sorted alphabetically by first name with other positions noted)
Andrew Perry – Xaverian
Austin Collard ’18 – Wakefield
Billy Polk ’12 – Dover-Sherborn
Bobby Maimaron ’18 – Duxbury
Brooks Tyrrell ’16 – Marblehead
Bryan Rotatori ’13 – Grafton
Caleb Brodie ’14 – Hingham
Carson Hart ’13 – Wayland
Cole Kissick ’15 – Cohasset
Collin Almeida ’19 – Falmouth
Dan Axelson ’16 – Cohasset
Dan Delaney ’13 – Lincoln-Sudbury
Dom Carter ’19 – Marlboro – Attack
Drew O’Connell ’14 – St. John’s Prep
Drew Laundry ’16 – Billerica
Frank Cosolito ’16 – Catholic Memorial
Greg Roder ’14 – Lincoln-Sudbury
Griffin Shoemaker ’17 – Littleton
Henry Guild ’14 – Lincoln-Sudbury
Jack Barron ’19 – Longmeadow
Jack Geiger ’18 – Reading
Jake Erickson ’19 – Acton-Boxboro – attack
Jake Mabardy ’19 – Winchester
Jake Quilty ’18 – Hingham
James O’Connell ‘11 – St. John’s Prep
Joe Gooley ’18 – Duxbury
John Fitzgerald ’10 – Hingham
John Herlihy ’19 – Lincoln-Sudbury
JT Kelly ’15 – Acton-Boxboro
Kevin Bletzer ’14 – Catholic Memorial
Kevin McCordic ’16 – Medfield
Kevin Tobin ’17 – Reading
Kurt Hunzicker ’12 – Masconomet
Kyle Soroka ’12 – Acton-Boxboro
Liam Driscoll ’13 – Xaverian
Matt Crowell ’14 – Medfield
Matt Dziama ’14 – Wellesley
Matt Sharpe ’15 – Duxbury
Mark Riley ’12 – Needham
Max Stukalin ’16 – Longmeadow
Michael Chabra ’20 – Austin Prep
Michael Tobin ’19 – Reading
Mike Panepinto ’14 – Needham
Sam Witt ’17 – Acton-Boxboro
Spencer Robbins ’18 – Longmeadow
Tom Stanton ’12 – Catholic Memorial
T.J. Fitzell ’14 – South Hadley
Will Abbott ’18 – Hopkinton
Will Blumenberg ’15 – Concord-Carlisle
Will Stenberg ’11 – Needham – Attack
Will Thomas ’19 – Cohasset
Faceoff Midfielders +
Allyn French ’19 – Dracut – Midfield
Elliot Burr ’12 – Hamilton-Wenham – Midfield
Caleb Hammett ’20 – Hanover
Clay Richard ’12 – Medfield
Craig Yannone ’19 – St. John’s Prep
Drew Kelleher ’14 – Longmeadow
Frankie Higgins ’17 – Hingham – LSM
Henry Narlee ’13 – Duxbury
Jack-Henry Vara ’16 – Medfield
Jacob Alexander ’19 – Franklin
Junior Almeida ’17 – Lincoln-Sudbury
Kyle LaForge ’17 – Tyngsboro – Attack
Liam McDonough ’18 – Groton-Dunstable – Midfield
