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2024 Men's Lacrosse Roster

Rich Graessle
Tommy Gilligan

24 Cole Brams

  • Class Graduate Student
  • Height 6-0
  • Weight 198
  • Hometown Portsmouth, N.H.
  • High School Portsmouth High School
  • Prev School University of Utah

Biography

Played four seasons at Utah prior to transfer to Rutgers

2023 USILA Scholar All-American
2023 Atlantic Sun Tournament MVP
2023 Second Team All-Atlantic Sun
2023 Atlantic Sun All-Academic Team
2022 Second Team All-Atlantic Sun
2022 Atlantic Sun All-Academic Team
2022 Pac-12 Academic Honor Roll
2021 Pac-12 Academic Honor Roll
Ranked as the No. 27 incoming graduate transfer by Inside Lacrosse

2024 (At Rutgers): Team's top faceoff specialist went 126-of-243 (51.8%) at the 'X' ... led tem with 64 ground balls and had two goals .. fourth in the Big Ten in ground balls per game (4.57) went 9-of-15 on face-offs with six ground balls in season-opening win over Lehigh (Feb. 3) ... was 13-of-20, scored a goal and had 10 ground balls in win against Stony Brook (Feb. 10) ... retrieved 5 ground balls and went 10-of-21 on face-offs in game against No. 6 Army (Feb. 17) ... was 12-of-18 on face-offs with 6 ground balls in win at Loyola (Feb. 24) ... had a ground ball and two faceoff wins in win over Hofstra (Mar. 2) ... won 4-of-8 faceoffs and had two ground balls in win against Detroit (Mar. 5) ... was 15-of-25 on faceoffs with six ground balls against No. 14/15 Princeton (March 10) ... retrieved 3 ground balls and won 7-of-13  faceoffs in win against UMass (Mar. 16) ... was 12-of-20 with four ground balls against No. 11 Johns Hopkins (March 24) ... was 12-of-24 on faceoffs, scored a goal and had 7 ground balls against Ohio State (March 30) ... was 9-of-20 on faceoffs and had four ground balls in win at No. 15/16 Michigan (April 7) ... was 10-of-21 on faceoffs with four ground balls and caused a turnover against No. 4 Maryland (April 13) ... was 11-of-21 on faceoffs with six ground balls against No. 10 Penn State (April 19) 

2023 (At Utah): Played in all 17 games, breaking his own school record for single-season ground balls (145), face-off wins (261) and face-off win percentage (.577) … was 21-of-23 on face-offs (.913) with 18 ground balls in the ASUN Championship against Air Force to earn tournament MVP, adding a goal and an assist. … recorded 11 points (4 goals, 7 assists) and a caused turnover … had five games with 10+ ground balls … ranked 17 th  nationally and second in the ASUN in face-off win percentage (.577) … ranked 11 th  in the nation and first in the ASUN in ground balls per game (8.53) … broke his own program record in single-game ground balls with 21 against Bellarmine in the ASUN semifinals … his 21 ground balls against Bellarmine was the most by a player in the ASUN and the second-most by a player in the NCAA … had school record 27 face-off wins at Robert Morris, adding 15 ground balls … had 26 faceo-ff wins, 15 ground balls, a goal and two assists at Detroit Mercy

2022 (At Utah): Played in all 14 games, recording a school record 111 ground balls and 199 face-off wins (199-of-361), adding six points (4 goals, 2 assists) and two caused turnovers … earned one Defensive Player of the Week award …ranked first in the ASUN and 18 th  nationally in face-off win percentage (.557), also ranking first in the
league and 12 th nationally in ground balls per game (7.93) … had five double-digit ground ball games (17 vs. Mercer, 10 at Cleveland State, 14 at Bellarmine, 12 vs. Bellarmine – ASUN Semifinals, 11 vs. Robert Morris) … set the school record in single-game ground balls (17) and face-offs won (23) vs. Mercer …scored 18 face-off wins along with an assist and seven ground balls at Jacksonville … also had 18 faceo-ff victories and 14 ground balls at Bellarmine, adding an assist …recorded a goal and eight ground balls vs. Robert Morris.

2021(At Utah): Saw action in 11 games with four starts, recording seven points (4 goals, 3 assists) with a team-high 70 ground balls … ranked 19th  in the NCAA in ground balls per game … set the school record with 13 ground balls against Bellarmine, adding an assist and a caused turnover … scored a goal with 11 ground balls against Westminster … had a goal, six ground balls and a caused turnover at Loyola … also scored at Denver and Cleveland State … recorded nine ground balls and an assist at Mercer.

2020 (At Utah): Played in all six games before the season was cut short due to Covid- 19, tallying two goals and one assist for three points while grabbing 37 ground balls and three caused turnovers … made his collegiate debut against Bellarmine and picked up his first-career assist with nine ground balls and a caused turnover … picked up his first
collegiate goal against Furman while collecting nine ground balls … followed up with a goal at Jacksonville with 10 ground balls.

High School: 2019 U.S. Lacrosse All-American as a senior at Portsmouth HS … two-time NHIAA Division II Offensive Player of the Year … three-time all-state, including a two-time first-team selection … scored 60 goals with 37 assists and 97 ground balls as a senior, winning 95-percent (284-of-299) of faceoffs … scored 62 goals with 32 assists
and had 75 ground balls with 196 faceoff wins (76-percent) as a junior … also played football.

Personal: Parents are John and Shannan … has two younger siblings, Tess and Gwen

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