Liam Banks, Lacrosse, 1999-2003
5-11, 170
Attack
Setauket, N.Y.
Liam Banks holds the SU record for the most goals scored in a NCAA championship game with six in 2000. That year he was named to the All-Tournament team and won the W.H. Brine Award (Outstanding Player Division I Championship Game). Banks is tied for fifth place on SU’s career NCAA assist list with 20. He also ranks ninth on SU’s career assist list (86), 20th on SU’s career points list (165) and is tied for 22nd on SU’s single season assist list (34 in 2001).
2003: Played in 12 games, started in two…scored 16 goals…had 17 assists and 18 groundballs…ranked fourth on the team in points (33)…scored a season-high three goals against UMass in a 14-13 loss in overtime…scored two goals and had three assists in the semifinal game against Princeton…had a team-high three points (two assists) in the championship game against Johns Hopkins, which the Orange lost 19-8.
2002: Did not play.
2001: STX/USILA Honorable Mention All-American…had three assists in the semifinal win against Notre Dame…notch one assist in the finals against Princeton…scored a season-high three goals in the quarterfinal win against Hofstra to go along with two assists…kept SU in the game with two consecutive goals in the second quarter when the Orangemen were down, 6-2, to Hofstra…finished fourth on the team in scoring (50 points)…second on the squad in assists (34)…with the game tied 4-4 at UMass, he ignited the offense in the third quarter, scoring all three of his points (a goal and two assists) to help SU build an 8-6 lead going into the fourth quarter…set a career-high with six assists and posted a game-high seven points against Rutgers…had five assists in a win against Brown…ended the season ranked ninth in the nation for assists per game (2.13).
2000: STX/USILA Honorable Mention All-American…selected to the NCAA All-Tournament team after tallying 14 points in three NCAA playoff games…scored a career-high six goals (on six shots) and had an assist in the national championship game against Princeton…the six goals were the second-highest total in a championship game…became the sixth Orangeman to earn Most Outstanding Player honors at the final four…was the team’s third-leading scorer with 66 points (39 goals)…finished 15th in the nation in points per game (2.44)…had two eight-point games during the regular season—vs. Brown and Georgetown.
1999: Played in 16 games…took 32 shots…tied for eighth on the team in scoring with 16 points (eight goals, eight assists)…scored nine of his 16 points in the NCAA Tournament…tallied two or more points in four of the last six games, including one goal and two assists in the championship game against Virginia…scored a season-high three points, including two goals, against Princeton in the first round of the NCAAs…had two goals in the next game against Loyola…equaled his season-high with three points in the final game against Virginia…participated in the World University games in Australia during the summer…led all players with 18 goals and 18 assists…named to the All-World team.
High School: Attended Ward Melville High School…All-American as a senior…four-year letterwinner…team captain as a junior…scored 69 goals and had 103 assists as a senior…played in the 1997 Empire State Games.
Personal: Son of John and Darlene Banks…five brothers and two sisters…born December 24, 1979 in New York, N.Y….majored in speech communication…his sister, Caitlin, played women’s lacrosse at University of Virginia.
