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Jack McBride Picked By Denver In MLL Draft
January 22, 2011 | Men's Lacrosse
Jack McBride enters his senior season with the Princeton men's lacrosse team with at least one post-graduate job offer waiting for him.
McBride, an All-America attackman, was chosen by the Denver Outlaws with the 27th pick of the Major League Lacrosse draft Friday night. MLL moved the draft from May to January this year to give teams more opportunity to plan for the coming season and to allow selected players to move directly into the league once their college seasons end.
The move of the draft to January does not affect the eligibility of those chosen, all of whom are entering the senior collegiate seasons. Kevin Crowley of Stony Brook was the top overall selection.
McBride will bring 89 career goals into his senior year, and he figures to finish somewhere between third and fifth all-time at Princeton in goals scored.
A first-team All-Ivy selection each of the last two years and the Ivy League Rookie of the Year as a freshman, McBride has scored 35 goals each of the last two seasons. As a junior he scored the game-winning goal in overtime of the first Ivy League tournament final, and he also had two goals and three assists against Notre Dame in the first round of the NCAA tournament.
McBride was a second-team All-America as a sophomore, an honorable mention All-America as a junior and a preseason second-team All-America this year.
Princeton will face eight of the top 11 players selected in the draft during the upcoming season, which begins for Princeton on Feb. 26 at Hofstra and which begins for Division I in just two weeks, when Delaware hosts Detroit.
In other Princeton men's lacrosse news, McBride's cousin Chris McBride has been added as a team captain for 2011, joining Jack McBride, John Cunningham and Tyler Moni.