Five Blue Devils On Tewaaraton Trophy Preseason Watch List

Five Duke men's lacrosse players have been named to the preseason Watch List for the 2006 Tewaaraton Trophy, an award presently annually to the top player in the nation.

Representing Duke on the list are junior attackman Matt Danowski, sophomore attackman Zack Greer, junior defenseman Tony McDevitt, junior long stick midfielder Nick O'Hara and senior midfielder Matt Zash. Danowski was one of five finalists for last year's award which went to Kyle Harrison of Johns Hopkins.

Along with the five Blue Devils, a total of 53 players nationwide were tabbed to the list including Harry Alford (Maryland), Jon Birsner (Navy), Ryan Blair (North Carolina), Joe Boulukos (Cornell), Jake Byrne (Johns Hopkins), Joe Canuso (Villanova), Casey Cittadino (Towson), Dan Cocoziello (Princeton), Jamie Coffin (Dartmouth), Greg Cohen (Harvard), Brian Crockett (Syracuse), Mike Culver (Virginia), Ian Dingman (Navy), Kyle Dixon (Virginia), Greg Downing (Fairfield), Matt Eckerl (Towson), Reyn Garnett (Georgetown), Wes Green (Adelphi), Jordan Hall (Delaware), Greg Havalchak (Rutgers), Patrick Heim (Penn State), Ryan Hotaling (Nazareth), Kevin Huntley (Johns Hopkins), Dan Kallaugher (Yale), Bill Looney (Navy), Steve Looney (Navy), Matt Madalon (Roanoke), Stephen McElduff (North Carolina), Bill McGlone (Maryland), Matt McMonagle (Cornell), Sean Morris (Massachusetts), Brett Moyer (Hofstra), Brendan Mundorff (UMBC), Greg Peyser (Johns Hopkins), Paul Rabil (Johns Hopkins), Jack Reid (Massachusetts), Greg Rommel (Syracuse), Matt Russell (Navy), Jesse Schwartzman (Johns Hopkins), Alex Smith (Delaware), Scott Sowanick (Princeton), Travis Tarr (Lemoyne), Peter Trombino (Princeton), Kip Turner (Virginia), John Walker (Army), Pat Walsh (Notre Dame), Joe Walters (Maryland) and Matt Ward (Virginia).

The Tewaaraton Award Foundation, in conjunction with the University Club of Washington, D.C., formally established the "Tewaaraton Trophy" on August 29, 2000. Today, the Tewaaraton Trophy is recognized as the pre-eminent lacrosse award honoring the top female and male varsity collegiate lacrosse player in the United States. The Foundation honors lacrosse, the original and oldest American sport, through the Tewaaraton name and by promoting the game through the award.

Previous winners of the award are Hofstra's Doug Shanahan (2001), Syracuse's Michael Powell (2002 & 2004), Virginia's Chris Rotelli (2003) and Harrison.