Dialed In: Your Lacrosse Fix for Wednesday, July 19

Good morning. Here’s the latest from around the lacrosse world:

1. Kylie Ohlmiller opened up about her yearlong recovery from the devastating ACL injury she suffered during the 2022 World Lacrosse Women’s Championship. KO returns to the field for the first time Thursday for Athletes Unlimited Lacrosse opening day at USA Lacrosse. She’ll suit up for Team Read against Team Moreno at 7:30 p.m. ET (ESPNU). “I don’t think my story is done yet,” she said.

2. Mount St. Mary’s has hired NCAA Division II championship-winning coach Chris Ryan as the successor to longtime men’s lacrosse fixture Tom Gravante. The school officially announced its decision Tuesday, confirming reports that first surfaced last week. Ryan led Mercyhurst to a Division II title in 2011 and runner-up finish this year.

3. Another NCAA championship-winning coach is set to retire, according to The Crosse Commission. Cortland’s Steve Beville is reportedly retiring after 17 seasons. A two-time national defenseman of the year at Washington College, Beville coached at Colorado College and Vermont before coming to Cortland in 2007. He led the Red Dragons to four Division III finals and the 2009 national title.

4. Reigning Big South Offensive Player of the Year Shannon Ulrey has transferred to Arizona State, the school announced Tuesday. Ulrey is coming off an 83-goal season at Mercer. Second-year coach Taryn VanThof called her “a powerful addition” to the offense.

5. A major shakeup north of the border, as Calgary Roughnecks fixture Curt Malawsky was named the new head coach and general manager of the Vancouver Warriors. It’s a statement hire for the Warriors, who have made the playoffs just once in the last seven seasons. Malawsky is the reigning National Lacrosse League Coach of the Year and has led the Roughnecks to two NLL Finals, including a championship in 2019.

6. The SUNY Morrisville men’s and women’s lacrosse teams will play on a black-turfed surface with red and powder blue lines. The school unveiled the new Drake Field playing surface Tuesday. It’s the only of its kind in the country. “We wanted to move in a bold, new direction that would give our department and student-athletes a unique identity to rally around," athletic director Matt Grawrock said.

WHAT WE’RE READING

• How the Richmond men and Virginia Tech women fared versus projections in 2022.

• “Take Me Back” with Eastern Shore icon and U.S. men’s national team midfielder Zach Goodrich.

• About our late colleague Gordon Corsetti, whose influence in the officiating community reached far beyond the United States, as former USA Lacrosse officials development senior manager Charlie Obermayer learned during the World Lacrosse Men’s Championship in San Diego.

• Rachel Clark and Emma LoPinto’s landscape altering decisions to transfer to Boston College and more college women’s lacrosse player movement compiled by Inside Lacrosse.

• A blast from the past: Lacrosse All Stars revisits the famous NYIT backer zone defense invented by late Hall of Fame coach Jack Kaley.

• From the summer edition of GoDuke the Magazine, Duke’s senior associate director of communications Meredith Rieder revisits Brennan O’Neill’s phenomenal year capped by his MVP performance for the U.S. national team in the World Lacrosse Men’s Championship.

• A valued lacrosse community member in need: Highly regarded stick stringer Robert “Wizard Strings” Pszybylski and his family have been displaced after a house fire Sunday caused by a surge from a downed power line in a nearby neighborhood, according to a Go Fund Me page established to help alleviate them financially.

• New Virginia women’s lacrosse coach Sonia LaMonica is looking to expand the Cavaliers’ recruiting footprint while continuing to win over prospects from the hotbeds. Jeff White caught up with LaMonica for VirginiaSports.com.

• University of Denver Magazine published a feature on new Pioneers head coach Matt Brown, who has come a long way from stocking shelves at Safeway in British Columbia.

WHAT WE’RE WATCHING

All the vibes from the Chaos locker room.

tag urself - we're @IanMacKay_94 in the corner pic.twitter.com/ZbCoUZtoBo

— Chaos Lacrosse Club (@PLLChaos) July 18, 2023

WHAT’S ON TAP

• Our 2023 Top 30 look-back series continues with retrospective pieces on the Saint Joseph’s men and Marquette women.

• More Athletes Unlimited season preview content, with the opener now just one day away.

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