Virginia Places Eight on Inside Lacrosse Preseason All-America Teams

Inside Lacrosse launched its Preseason All-American picks for the 2023 school lacrosse season on Wednesday and Virginia led all colleges with eight Preseason All-People. No different staff had greater than six picks. 

Virginia junior attackman Connor Shellenberger was one in every of three gamers named a unanimous preseason First-Workforce All-American together with Penn’s Sam Handley and Georgetown’s Will Bowen. Shellenberger, who was a Tewaaraton finalist in 2022, is joined on the First-Workforce Assault unit by Yale’s Matt Brandau and Cornell’s CJ Kirst. 

UVA had two picks to Inside Lacrosse’s Preseason All-American Second-Workforce. Reigning ACC Defensive Participant of the 12 months Cole Kastner was a Second-Workforce choice, as was graduate midfielder Thomas McConvey, a Vermont switch who was the America East Offensive Participant of the 12 months in 2022 after tallying 60 targets and 14 assists for the Catamounts final season. 

Senior attackman Payton Cormier was chosen to the preseason Third-Workforce by Inside Lacrosse after tallying 60 factors on 50 targets and ten assists final season. 

Virginia additionally had 4 gamers tabbed as preseason All-American honorable mentions: graduate midfielder Jeff Conner, graduate faceoff specialist Petey LaSalla, graduate short-stick defensive midfielder Grayson Sallade, and redshirt senior defenseman Cade Saustad. 

Virginia was chosen because the preseason No. 1-ranked staff within the nation within the Inside Lacrosse Preseason Media Ballot, which was launched on Monday. The Cavaliers acquired 14 of the 26 first-place votes. 

See the complete checklist of preseason All-People by Inside Lacrosse beneath:

2023 Inside Lacrosse Preseason Males’s Division All-People

First Workforce

A-Connor Shellenberger, Virginia
A-Matt Brandau, Yale
A-CJ Kirst, Cornell
M-Sam Handley, Penn
M-Graham Bundy Jr., Georgetown
M-Matt Campbell, Villanova
FO-Luke Wierman, Maryland
SSDM-Payton Rezanka, Loyola
SSDM-Connor Maher, North Carolina
LSM-Roy Meyer, Boston U.
D-Will Bowen, Georgetown
D-Gavin Adler, Cornell
D-Brett Makar, Maryland
G-Liam Entenmann, Notre Dame

Second Workforce

A-Brennan O’Neill, Duke
A-Pat Kavanagh, Notre Dame
A-Jack Myers, Ohio State
M-Kyle Lengthy, Maryland
M- Jake Stevens, Princeton
M-Thomas McConvey, Virginia
FO-Zach Cole, Saint Joseph
SSDM-Piper Bond, Penn
SSDM-Beau Pederson, Princeton
LSM-Ethan Rall, Rutgers
D-Owen Grant, Delaware
D-Ajax Zappitello, Maryland
D-Cole Kastner, Virginia
G-Logan McNaney, Maryland

Third Workforce

A-Ross Scott, Rutgers
A-Tucker Dordevic, Georgetown
A-Payton Cormier, Virginia
M-Sam English, Princeton
M-Patrick Skalniak, Navy
M-Shane Knobloch, Rutgers
FO-Mike Sisselberger, Lehigh
SSDM-Chet Comizio, Villanova
SSDM-Trevor Yeboah-Kodie, Brown
LSM-Tyler Carpenter, Duke
D-Chris Faux, Notre Dame
D-Jackson Bonitz, Navy
D-Kenny Brower, Duke
G-Connor Theriault, Brown

Honorable Point out

A-Levi Anderson, Saint Joseph’s
A-Vince D’Alto, Boston U.
A-Dylan Gergar, Penn
A-Owen Hiltz, Syracuse
A-Devon McLane, Brown
A-Mike Robinson, Delaware
A-Alex Slusher, Princeton
A-Max Waldbaum, Jacksonville
A-Dylan Watson, Jacksonville
A-Josh Zawada, Michigan
M-Aiden Blake, Cornell
M-Jeff Conner, Virginia
M-Eric Dobson, Notre Dame
M-Hugh Kelleher, Cornell
M-Andrew McAdorey, Duke
M-Declan McDermott, Georgetown
M-Brian Tevlin, Notre Dame
FO-Petey LaSalla, Virginia
FO-James Reilly, Georgetown
SSDM-Connor Cmiel, Ohio State
SSDM-Cole Daninger, Jacksonville
SSDM-Grayson Sallade, Virginia
SSDM-Chase Yager, Harvard
LSM-Greg Campisi, Harvard
LSM-BJ Farrare, Penn
LSM-John Geppert, Maryland
D-Marcus Hudgins, Ohio State
D-Brendan Lavelle, Penn
D-Cade Saustad, Virginia
D-Bobby Van Buren, Ohio State
D-Cam Wyers, Loyola
G-Matt Garber, Boston U.
G-Will Mark, Syracuse
G-Jared Paquette, Yale

Virginia will start the 2023 males’s lacrosse season on Saturday, February eleventh at 12pm when the Cavaliers host Michigan at Klockner Stadium. 

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