WASHINGTON, D.C. – Two Loyola University Maryland men's lacrosse players were among the 50 players nationally named to the Tewaaraton Award Watch List on Thursday.
Kevin Lindley and
Ryan McNulty were tabbed to the elite list of the nation's best lacrosse players. Last year, the Greyhounds'
Pat Spencer became Loyola's first-ever winner of the award that honors the top player in college lacrosse.
In total, four Loyola student-athletes were named to Tewaaraton Award Watch Lists tonight. Sam Fiedler and Livy Rosenzweig were honored from the Loyola women's team.
All four will be on the field at Ridley Athletic Complex on Saturday, February 15, when the Greyhounds host a men's and women's doubleheader against Johns Hopkins University. The women start the action at 12 noon with the men following at 3:30 p.m.
Lindley capped his 2019 sophomore campaign with a school record 60 goals becoming the first player in Loyola history to reach that mark. He broke the previous best of 54 goals set by Eric Lusby in Loyola's 2012 NCAA Championship season in one fewer game that Lusby's 18.
The native of Darien, Connecticut, finished the year third in NCAA Division I in both goals and goals per game (3.53), and he topped the Patriot League in shooting percentage (.444). In just 34 career games over two seasons, Lindley has scored 97 goals and has shot .471 for the Greyhounds. He also has seven career extra-man goals, five coming a year ago.
He opened last season with a show of why he is one of the best finishers in college lacrosse, averaging 5.0 goals over the Greyhounds' first five contests against Virginia, Johns Hopkins, Rutgers, Towson and Holy Cross. Later in the year, he posted a 10-point game with eight goals and a pair of assists. His eight goals tied his career-high and the second-best single-game performance at Loyola.
Lindley had two goals for the Greyhounds last Saturday in their season-opener at No. 1 Virginia.
McNulty, a Philadelphia-area product, continued to establish himself as one of the top long-stick midfielders in the nation as he led Loyola's non-faceoff specialists with 65 ground balls. He also topped the Greyhounds with 25 caused turnovers during his second full season on the field. McNulty will play this season as a senior academically, and he will return next year to compete for his fourth year athletically after missing all but two games his freshman season with an injury.
Like Lindley's start to 2019, McNulty had an equally solid one. He totaled three ground balls and three caused turnovers in the opening win over Virginia, and he then led the Greyhounds' defense to another victory at Johns Hopkins with six groundballs and three takeaways. McNulty then earned a Patriot League Defensive Player of the Week nod after posting six ground balls and a caused turnover in a win at Rutgers.
McNulty had a pair of caused turnovers and a ground ball versus Virginia. He also marked Cavaliers' All-American Dox Aitken in the game, holding him to a goal and an assist.
