Schreiber, Sowers Named To USA Team For 2023 World Championships

Between them, Michael Sowers and Tom Schreiber scored 502 points at Princeton. They have both won professional and international championships and have had their names announced after the letters "MVP."

What they've never done before is been teammates, at least until now.

When the final 23-man USA roster for the 2023 World Championships in San Diego was announced yesterday, both Princeton alums Schreiber and Sowers were on it. As such, they will compete with each other for the time ever with the highest stakes in the game on the line.

"When you have Tom Schreiber and Michael Sowers as ambassadors for your program, you have to consider yourself to be lucky," says Princeton head coach Matt Madalon. "We're thrilled to see that they've both made the U.S. roster. I know that the competition for those 23 spots was fierce, and it speaks volumes about who these two men are as players and people that they were selected."

Schreiber, the highest-scoring midfielder in Princeton history with 200 career points (106 goals, 94 assists), scored the game-winning goal with one second to go in the championship game at the most recent World Championships, back in 2018 in Netanya, Israel, to give the U.S. a 9-8 win over Canada. Sowers, the program's all-time leading scorer with 302 points (121G, 181A),   was the leading scorer on the 2017 USA team that won the World U-19 Championship.

Schreiber and Sowers, who both wore No. 22 at Princeton, have also won championships in the pro leagues, with Schreiber's winning in Major League Lacrosse with the Ohio Machine and Sowers' winning last summer with the Premier Lacrosse League's Waterdogs. Schreiber was twice the MVP of the MLL and has been the PLL Midfielder of the Year three times in the four years it has been awarded. Sowers was the MVP of last summer's PLL Championship Game.

Princeton will likely have other representatives at the World Championships, especially with the Canadian team, which almost surely will feature Zach Currier, with current Tigers Sam English and Jake Stevens in the mix this year and into the future. Currier, a silver medalist in 2018 in Israel, was a Princeton teammate with both Schreiber and Sowers.

The 2023 World Championships will be held in San Diego from June 21-July 1.

The final U.S. 23-man roster:
Name                           Pos       College                                     Pro
Trevor Baptiste             FO        Denver '18                                Atlas (PLL)/Philadelphia (NLL)
Jesse Bernhardt            D          Maryland '13                            Chrome (PLL)
Charlie Bertrand           A/M     Merrimack '20/Virginia (Gr.)      Redwoods (PLL)/Las Vegas (NLL)
Liam Byrnes                  LSM      Marquette '16                          Waterdogs (PLL)/Panther City (NLL)
Ryan Conrad                 M         Virginia '19                               Waterdogs (PLL)
Matthew Dunn             D          Maryland '16                            Whipsnakes (PLL)
Michael Ehrhardt          LSM      Maryland '14                            Whipsnakes (PLL)
JT Giles-Harris               D          Duke '21                                   Chrome (PLL)
Zach Goodrich              SSDM   Towson '19                               Cannons (PLL)
TD Ierlan                       FO        Yale '20/Denver (Gr.)                Redwoods (PLL)/Toronto (NLL)
Connor Kelly                 M         Maryland '18                            Waterdogs (PLL)/Albany (NLL)
Jack Kelly                      G          Brown '16                                 Redwoods (PLL)
Danny Logan                 SSDM   Denver '21                                Atlas (PLL)/San Diego (NLL)
Kieran McArdle             A          St. John's '14                             Waterdogs (PLL)/Albany (NLL)
Brennan O'Neill            A/M     Duke '24
Rob Pannell                  A          Cornell '13                                Redwoods (PLL)
Matt Rambo                 A          Maryland '17                            Whipsnakes (PLL)/Philadelphia (NLL)
Jacob Richard                SSDM   Marquette '16                          Atlas (PLL)
Blaze Riorden                G          Albany '16                                Chaos (PLL)/Philadelphia (NLL)
Jack Rowlett                 D          North Carolina '19                     Chaos (PLL)
Tom Schreiber              M         Princeton '14                            Archers (PLL)/Toronto (NLL)
Michael Sowers            A/M     Princeton '20/Duke (Gr.)           Waterdogs (PLL)
Ryan Terefenko             SSDM   Ohio State '21                           Chrome (PLL)/Halifax (NLL)

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