Afternoon Lax Links: 6-23-11

Trevor Yealy and Harry Freid highlight Jac Coyne’s MCLA D-1 All-Americans. Yealy plays an even more important role:

Player of the Year

Trevor Yealy, Senior – Michigan
During Michigan’s loss in the national semifinals, there was a play that not only showed what kind of lacrosse player Yealy was, but also how much he diversified his game over his four years in Ann Arbor. It was in the second half, and a bad turnover had just sprung an Arizona State midfielder on a transition opportunity. Yealy, playing attack, took off on a dead sprint at the Sun Devil player, finally catching him just at the top of the box at the other end of the field and threw a wrap-check that de-sticked the ASU player. Yealy snatched the ground ball, sprinted back down to the other end and calmly reset the Wolverine offense. It was a blend of speed, athletic ability, grittiness, lacrosse IQ and leadership in the confines of one play – all traits that gives Yealy the nod for Player of the Year honors.

As we all know by this point, his fifth year at Michigan will be the Wolverines’ first year as a varsity program.

UPDATE: According to Inside Lacrosse, Michigan will hire Judd Lattimore as one of John Paul’s assistant coaches.

Also, a few Detroit Titans are plying their trade in Ontario for the summer.

A couple links on the growth of the game via The Growth Blog. One of them has a link-to-a-link about Michigan.