Notification: Congratulate Jesse King on celebrating his two-year work anniversary of being named Captain of the Calgary Roughnecks. The path that has led the Victoria, BC native to become Captain King 3.0 has been an introspective journey, not without challenges. This latest version of Captain King feels more comfortable and confident in his role than
It’s that time of year again. For the next six months, the men of the National Lacrosse League will be on the road playing the game they love, all in the pursuit of fulfilling the lifelong dream of winning an NLL championship. Many will do so at a price. For the next six months, many
It has been said that the best journey always takes you home. At 25 years old, Ottawa, Ontario native Nathan Grenon, the 11th overall selection in the 2021 National Lacrosse League Entry Draft (by the now defunct Panther City Lacrosse Club), has had quite the nomadic NLL experience. After being selected by PCLC in 2021,
A man’s resume can tell you a lot about who he is. More importantly, it can often tell what he might be able to accomplish in the future. Before becoming an emerging NLL star on the Calgary Roughnecks, Tanner Cook was an elite lacrosse player at the University of North Carolina (UNC), the Hill Academy,
Latrell Harris was a late(r) bloomer when it came to learning lacrosse, but with the way the 25-year-old has been playing this season, and all of his professional career for that matter, you’d never know that he didn’t start playing until his pre-teen years. As is usually the case with young Canadians, if they don’t
Taite Cattoni has always wanted to follow in his older brother Holden’s footsteps; In recent weeks, Taite has been stepping out from under Holden’s shadow. When Taite was a young boy – these were the days before he began playing organized lacrosse – he remembers waiting outside of the local rink in DeWinton, Alberta, practicing
Losing is difficult. How you respond and adapt to that adversity shows your true character. The Albany FireWolves have been eliminated from playoff contention in the 2022-23 NLL Season. Yet, that hasn’t deterred seasoned veteran Brett Manney and the 3-13 FireWolves from leaving everything on the floor in the attempt to play the role of
The Vancouver Warriors Brandon Goodwin was raised to play a tough, never-give-up brand of lacrosse. He was raised to be the type of player that the Warriors’ newest Head Coach, Troy Cordingley, would want on one of his teams. Not that it needs to keep being brought up, but the Warriors have undergone unprecedented changes
Confidence can transform an ordinary athlete into an extraordinary one. It can all change in a flash. Growing up in Baldwinsville, New York, a suburb outside of Syracuse, Charlie Bertrand had known about box lacrosse, but had never played more than a hybrid pick-up version of the game. Through his youth, Bertrand excelled in the
In the world of sports, competitive athletes can work their entire lives to achieve greatness only to have that dream taken away from them in a split second. During his junior year at the Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) in 2019, Patrick Shoemay tore his ACL. His goal of becoming an NCAA champion now seemed