Team 91

Follow Team 91 on Instagram, Twitter and Facebook. Tyler Schwarz had had enough of playing lacrosse. He’d been playing the sport for a year or two, and by the end of it, he was ready to move on to another sport. “I wasn’t very good, and I just wasn’t having fun,” Schwarz said of his early years. “I decided…

Follow Team 91 on Instagram, Twitter and Facebook. Jake Wilson couldn’t have gone wrong with any of the schools that were recruiting him. The Team 91 Blaze and Shoreham-Wading River defenseman, the No. 25 ’21 according to the NLF rankings and Inside Lacrosse‘s No. 17 prospect. had a veritable who’s who of college lacrosse powers vying for his commitment. What ultimately sold him,…

Follow Team 91 on Instagram, Twitter and Facebook. It’s not a very common thing to do these days, but luckily for Aiden McCaffrey, he went against the grain, and it changed his future forever. Rare are the people you’ll find these days who will answer a phone call from a number that they don’t know. McCaffrey, a Team 91 2021 Blaze…

Follow Team 91 on Instagram, Twitter and Facebook. It’s a heck of a first-world problem to have, but that didn’t make it any easier for Andrew McAdorey to figure out what college that he wanted to attend. All of college lacrosse’s heavy hitters made their pitch to the Team 91 2020 Crush midfielder and St. Anthony‘s midfielder, the No. 1 player in…

Follow Team 91 on Instagram, Twitter and Facebook. Chris Cappelmann admitted that he wasn’t 100 percent sure of what to expect when he went out to dinner with his grandfather with the thought of telling him where he had just committed to play Division I lacrosse. The elder Cappelmann, John Sr., served in the Army, as did his son and…

Follow Team 91 on Instagram, Twitter and Facebook. The email hit Chris Zara‘s inbox at precisely 12:01 on Sept. 1, and from there, nothing was the same in Zara’s recruitment process. So much so that a school that the Team 91 Blaze and St. Anthony’s defenseman had no interest in quickly became the place for him to be. “Stony Brook was…

Follow Team 91 on Instagram, Twitter and Facebook. Brandon Ventarola quickly found out how much of a priority he was for Colgate once Sept. 1 rolled around. On the day that Division I coaches could first reach out to 2021 prospects, the Team 91 2021 Blaze and Mount Sinai midfielder noticed how badly the Raiders wanted him to be a cornerstone of…

Follow Team 91 on Instagram, Twitter and Facebook. Kyle O’Donoghue‘s introduction to the United States Naval Academy was a memorable one, but the Team 91 2021 Blaze and St. John The Baptist midfielder wasn’t going to let that affect his recruitment. The main reason for that, of course, was that he was way too young at the time to make a commitment.…

Follow Team 91 on Instagram, Twitter and Facebook. Tyler Gatz wasn’t looking West – at least, not that far West – when he got a call on Sept. 1 that ended up changing everything. The Team 91 2021 Blaze and Mount Sinai midfielder, one of the best offensive midfielders in the entire ’21 class, had just torn his ACL roughly six weeks earlier,…

Follow Team 91 on Instagram, Twitter and Facebook. On a 100-degree day at the National Lacrosse Federation national championships this summer, Chris Simonton spotted a sliver of open space, caught a pass in traffic and took a hard hit while unleashing a shot that quickly found the back of the net. As he got up, he had a few words to…