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B1G MLAX Awards: Coach Brecht CoY, Scott Bieda Off. Player of the year, Charalambides Frosh Award

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Congrats to Coach Brecht and the players. Very well deserved! Jules Heningburg and Scott Bieda 1st team all Big 10 along with Zach Sikora as honorable mention all Big 10. Michael Rexrod as a Sportsman honoree.


  • ROSEMONT, Ill. – The 2016 Big Ten men's lacrosse All-Conference teams and individual award winners were announced on Tuesday, with Rutgers’ Scott Bieda earning Big Ten Offensive Player of the Year honors from the conference's coaches. Ohio State’s Robby Haus was tabbed the Defensive Player of the Year, the Buckeyes’ Jake Withers earned Specialist of the Year honors, while the Scarlet Knights’ Adam Charalambides was named Freshman of the Year. Rutgers mentor Brian Brecht received Big Ten Coach of the Year honors.
    Bieda ranked second in the Big Ten with 4.20 points and 2.40 assists per contest in conference games only, and currently leads the conference with 4.14 points per outing in all games. He has scored three game-winning goals, and tallied nine points against St. John’s in the season opener, the highest point total among Big Ten players this season.
    Haus scooped up 31 ground balls during the regular season, helping anchor a Buckeye defensive unit that allowed just 9.1 goals per game. Haus, who served as a team captain this season, has started 65 games in his career and is a two-time Academic All-Big Ten selection. He was named first-team All-Big Ten this season after claiming honorable mention honors in 2015.
    Withers leads the Big Ten with 6.40 ground balls per game and paces the conference with a 63.2 faceoff percentage in conference games only. The Peterborough, Ontario native was twice named the Big Ten Specialist of the Week during the 2016 season. The 2014-15 Academic All-Big Ten selection gathered 109 total ground balls and won 183 faceoffs.
    Charalambides heads into the Big Ten Tournament with 35 goals on the season, and scored 10 in conference play. In all games, he ranks fourth in the Big Ten with 2.50 goals per contest, and is seventh with 3.50 points per outing. Charalambides claimed seven Big Ten Freshman of the Week honors, including four straight from Feb. 16-March 8.
    Brecht led Rutgers to 10 wins, a five-win improvement from the 2015 season, and the No. 2 seed in this week’s Big Ten Tournament. Rutgers led the Big Ten with 12.4 goals per game in conference play, and was tied for first with 19.4 points per contest. The Scarlet Knights enter the Big Ten Tournament having won five of their last seven games.
    The All-Big Ten first team features Johns’ Hopkins Ryan Brown and Shack Stanwick, Maryland’s Kyle Bernlohr, Bryan Cole and Isaiah Davis-Allen, Ohio State’s Haus and Withers, Penn State’s Nick Aponte and Rutgers’ Bieda and Jules Heningburg. Brown, Aponte and Bieda were unanimous first-team honorees.
    The Big Ten also announced six Sportsmanship Award Honorees. The student-athletes chosen are individuals who have distinguished themselves through sportsmanship and ethical behavior. In addition, the students must be in good academic standing and have demonstrated good citizenship outside of the sports-competition setting. This season's honorees are Johns Hopkins' Matt O’Keefe, Maryland’s Mike McCarney, Michigan’s Andrew Hatton, Ohio State’s Ryan Hunter, Penn State’s James Chakey and Rutgers’ Michael Rexrode.

2016 MEN’S LACROSSE ALL‐BIG TEN TEAMS AND INDIVIDUAL HONORS Coach of the Year: Brian Brecht, Rutgers
Offensive Player of the Year: Scott Bieda, Rutgers
Defensive Player of the Year: Robby Haus, Ohio State
Freshman of the Year: Adam Charalambides, Rutgers
Specialist of the Year: Jake Withers, Ohio State

First‐Team All‐Big Ten RYAN BROWN, Johns Hopkins Shack Stanwick, Johns Hopkins Kyle Bernlohr, Maryland Bryan Cole, Maryland Isaiah Davis‐Allen, Maryland Robby Haus, Ohio State Jake Withers, Ohio State NICK APONTE, Penn State SCOTT BIEDA, Rutgers Jules Heningburg, Rutgers

Honorable Mention All‐Big Ten John Crawley, Johns Hopkins Nick Fields, Johns Hopkins Greg Danseglio, Maryland Colin Heacock, Maryland Tim Muller, Maryland Matt Rambo, Maryland Chase Brown, Michigan Michael Aronow, Penn State Grant Ament, Penn State Zack Sikora, Rutgers

Unanimous selections in ALL CAPS

Sportsmanship Award Honorees: Matt O’Keefe, Johns Hopkins Mike McCarney, Maryland Andrew Hatton, Michigan Ryan Hunter, Ohio State James Chakey, Penn State Michael Rexrode, Rutgers

http://www.bigten.org/sports/m-lacros/spec-rel/050316aaa.html
 
Congrats to Coach Brecht, Bieda, Charalambides, Heningburg, Sikora, and Rexrode !

You're not done. Keep it going ! Beat the Hop. I don't want to hear 1, 2, 3, 4 we want more from their fans. Shut 'em down on D and light it up on O.
 
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Wow. 3 of the 5 individual Big Ten awards. What a year for Men's Lax!
 
Congrats to Coach Brecht, Bieda, Charalambides, Heningburg, Sikora, and Rexrode !

You're not done. Keep it going ! Beat the Hop. I don't want to hear 1, 2, 3, 4 we want more from their fans. Shut 'em down and light it up on O.

Worst song ever. Hopefully since it isn't technically a home game, they won't allow that horrible band to play.
 
Yea, I wouldn't bet on it. I'm just hoping.

Or better yet, bring the whole damn band and let em play that song 6 x while we score 13 again.
 
This is the year have been hoping for...for decades. We are officially one of the BIG boys.

After a lackluster effort in the OSU loss I think this team is ready for a breakout game
Beating Hopkins 2x in one year would certainly be a milestone,
I think we can do it
 
It's always hard beating team twice, and they have the advantage of playing on their home turf.

Even so, I like how we match up with them. This has been a year of turmoil for them (lost their coach for a spell, 4 of their top mids are out -think about that for a second and the depth they have created) so it would be nice to help them end the regular season with a nice loss in the B1G tourney.

Hopefully the weather is nice. Would be good if a lot of our fans posted. The boys and our game absolutely feeds off of it.
 
I just RE-read the post season honors and it sunk in,,,
Both the O player of the year and the Frosh of the year are Scarlet Knights

The 2016 will forever look back & know their year was Rutgers turning point
the year the lacrosse team became BIG time[banana]:boxing:[banana]

Coach Brecht IS,,,THE MAN !! [thumb2]
 
Truly amazing stuff here! Very proud of this team. Never really thought much about LAX but this team has caught my attention and I'm a fan. Well earned!
 
I might just be putting up a AP blurb but this has run in papers in Miami and Washington DC.
 
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I always suspect, a sport other then football will help bootstrap "the Rutgers" name. WBB or MBB or Wsoc or Msoc It will be a big draw if it was Men's Lacrosse, as lax players are mostly from the North East megalopolis and are mostly college bound it would boost our school across the board.
Great honors by coach and players.
 
Sorry, I meant that question for Swag. I'm curious if it is the winning, style, maybe all of it...good to grow the fanbase.

I know you're a big fan. Did you play for RU? Seems like a really tough sport. I think I'd have liked to pay it. Of course I would have been held back by the 1 thing that kept me down in other sports.......talent.
 
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