Lacrosse Magazine Announces Preseason Rankings

Gill, Adams Headline Player of the Year Selections

Baltimore — Virginia's Conor Gill and Maryland's Jen Adams have been selected as the NCAA Division I preseason players of the year in men's and women's lacrosse, respectively, by Lacrosse Magazine. In the magazine's annual poll of coaches, Syracuse was selected to repeat as the men's champion and Maryland was picked to win its seventh straight women's championship.

In Division II, Limestone was picked to win the men's championship and LeMoyne's Justin Kohlbrenner was selected as the preseason player of the year. On the women's side, Bloomsburg was selected to win the inaugural NCAA championship in the division and Bloomsburg's Roxann Emerick was the choice for preseason player of the year.

In Division III, Middlebury is the selection to repeat at Division III champions and the Panthers' Holt Hopkins is the preseason player of the year pick. The College of New Jersey tops the women's preseason poll and Amherst's Kristin Osborn was selected as the preseason player of the year.

In men's junior colleges, Nassau Community College was selected to win the NJCAA national title and Herkimer County CC's Jordan Vettoretti is the preseason player of the year honoree.

Lacrosse Magazine is an official publication of US Lacrosse, the national governing body of men's and women's lacrosse. US Lacrosse is a 501(c) 3 nonprofit organization. Lacrosse Magazine's complete 2001 preseason rankings follow:

Men's Division I
1. Syracuse (28) 598
2. Princeton (1) 559
3. Virginia (1) 539
4. Johns Hopkins 497
5. Georgetown 446
6. Duke 443
7. Loyola 423
8. Maryland 383
9. Hofstra 349
10. North Carolina 326
11. Notre Dame 271
12. Navy 234
13. Cornell 228
14. Hobart 170
15. Brown 165
16. Delaware 115
17. Massachusetts 111
18. UMBC 101
19. Penn State 74
20. Army 51

Men's Division II
1. Limestone (7) 115
2. Adelphi (3) 113
3. C.W. Post (2) 105
4. New York Tech 95
5. LeMoyne (2) 86
6. Pace 42
7. Molloy 39
8. LIU-Southampton 32
9. Merrimack 31
10. Pfeiffer 13

Men's Division III
1. Middlebury (37) 995
2. Salisbury State (9) 959
3. Washington and Lee (3) 891
4. Gettysburg (1) 829
5. Nazareth (1) 824
6. Washington College 747
7. Denison 668
8. Ohio Wesleyan 622
9. R.I.T. 616
10. Rensselaer 429
11. Ithaca 421
12. Bowdoin 408
13. Springfield 357
14. Williams 279
15. Cortland State 269
16. Roanoke 227
17. Hampden-Sydney 226
18. Lynchburg 195
19. Eastern Connecticut 123
20. Oneonta 103

Men's Junior Colleges
1. Nassau (9) 98
2. Herkimer (1) 87
3. Anne Arundel 78
4. Essex 72
5. Monroe 58
6. Canton 46
7. Catonsville 40
8. Dean 20
9. Alfred State 16
10. Harford 13

Women's Division I
1. Maryland (26) 538
2. Princeton (1) 506
3. Duke 431
4. Georgetown 424
5. North Carolina 399
6. Virginia 398
7. James Madison 392
8. Loyola 388
9. Syracuse 297
10. Dartmouth 293
11. Boston University 275
12. Delaware 196
13. Vanderbilt 187
14. Penn State 158
15. Yale 136
16. Cornell 131
17. Johns Hopkins 129
18. George Mason 86
19. William and Mary 65
20. Rutgers 47

Women's Division II
1. Bloomsburg (3) 99
2. Gannon (6) 98
3. West Chester (1) 78
4. UC-Davis 64
5. Longwood 61
6. Limestone 46
7. Shippensburg 45
8. East Stroudsburg 29
9. Mercyhurst 25
10. Stonehill 24

Women's Division III
1. The College of New Jersey (19) 471
2. Middlebury (1) 388
3. Amherst (1) 364
4. Williams 338
5. William Smith 323
6. Salisbury State 301
7. Cortland State 274
8. Gettysburg 234
9. Mary Washington 233
10. Bowdoin 195
11. Ursinus 174
12. Drew 158
13. Rowan 156
14. Hamilton 94
15. Washington 93
16. Nazareth 87
17. Randolph-Macon 79
18. Ithaca 63
19. Tufts 61
20. Union 53

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