Powell Named Finalist for the 2004 Tewaaraton Trophy
5/17/2004 3:48:04 PM | Men's Lacrosse
The other finalists are: Ryan Boyle, Princeton; Kyle Harrison, Johns Hopkins; Brodie Merrill, Georgetown; Jed Prossner, North Carolina. The winner will be announced at a banquet on June 3, 2004 in Washington. CSTV will broadcast a special Tewaaraton Awards ceremony show that will air Thursday, July 1, at 9 p.m. ET/6 p.m. PT.
Powell will go down as one of the best college lacrosse players of all-time and one of the best athletes in Syracuse University history. He is one of the most accomplished players in the game, highly regarded because of his exceptional quickness, accurate shooting, unselfishness (vision and passing) and tenacity on the ride. Many consider Powell the best-riding attackman in the game. As a freshman, he led the Orange in scoring and helped the team to the 2001 national championship game. As a sophomore, he won the Tewaaraton Trophy, was the MVP of the NCAA Tournament, helped lead Syracuse to its eighth NCAA championship and led the nation in scoring with 4.94 points per game. Later that summer, he helped Team USA win a World Championship as the squad's second-leading scorer. As a junior, he led SU in scoring and helped the team to its 21st consecutive appearance at NCAA Championship weekend.
This season, Michael Powell has done things on a lacrosse field that have never been seen before. Against Massachusetts in his final regular-season home game, Powell completed a front flip and came out of it to shoot on goal. He had a career-high six goals in that game. His "flip" was shown on ESPN's SportsCenter and was selected as one of Chris Berman's top 10 plays of the week. He was featured in Sports Illustrated and on the cover of Inside Lacrosse Magazine. On May 7, in a 13-9 win at Georgetown, Powell became the all-time leading scorer in Syracuse Lacrosse history, breaking the record of 287 points held by his older brothers Casey and Ryan Powell.
Michael Powell At-A-Glance:
2004 Player of the Year Candidate and Tewaaraton Trophy finalist for the fourth-straight year...Syracuse's all-time leading point scorer (currently 294 points on 145 goals and 149 assists)...needs six points against Georgetown in the NCAA quarterfinals on May 23rd to become just the fourth Division I player to record 300 career points...three-time National Attackman of the Year...if he wins the Turnbull Award (Attackman of the Year) this season, he will become the first player in the history of the award (since 1946) to win it four-straight years...a three-time first-team All-American....he is likely to win his fourth first-team All-American award this season and if he does he will be the first Syracuse men's lacrosse player in the rich and storied SU program to do so...he will be the first Division I player to be a four-time first-team selection since Del Dressel of Johns Hopkins in 1986 and just the sixth player in Division I history to earn the honor all four years of his career...Powell leads the Orange in scoring for the fourth-straight season with 76 points (as of May 17th)....he leads the team in goals (42) and assists (34) and is second in groundballs with 50...he is tied for first in the nation in goals per game (3.00 gpg) and was second in points per game according to the May 10th NCAA Statistics...with six points against Albany in the first round of this year's NCAA tournament, Powell increased his season points per game average to 5.43.
The Tewaaraton Award Foundation, in conjunction with the University Club of Washington, D.C., formally established the "Tewaaraton Trophy" on August 29, 2000. Today, the Tewaaraton Trophy is recognized as the preeminent lacrosse award honoring the top female and male varsity collegiate lacrosse player in the United States. The Foundation honors lacrosse, the original and oldest American sport, through the Tewaaraton name and by promoting the game through the award.
2004 Tewaaraton Men's Selection Committee: Dick Edell, University of Maryland (Chair); Dave Urick, Georgetown University; Erin Quinn, Middlebury College; Dom Starsia, University of Virginia; Scott Anderson, Harvard University; Tom Postel, C.W. Post College
