Three MAAC Men’s Lacrosse Student-Athletes Named USILA Scholar All-Americans
EDISON, NJ – Canisius College’s Connor Kearnan and Marist College’s duo of Brian Corrigan and Gannon Morrison earned USILA Scholar All-American honors on Monday. Corrigan and Morrison become the first teammates from Marist to be named USILA Scholar All-Americans in the same season. Kearnan is just the second Griff to earn the recognition.
A Scholar All-American must be nominated by his coach and be a student with a senior year academic standing and a cumulative grade point average of 3.0 (4.0 scale). He will have behaved in a manner that has brought credit to himself, his institution, and to college lacrosse both on and off the field. He must also be an All-American, a member of a North/South team, or an outstanding league or conference player.
Kearnan earned the MAAC Offensive Player of the Year, MAAC Championship MVP, and was named an Inside Lacrosse Media All-American Honorable Mention in 2018. The attack was a unanimous selection to the All-MAAC First Team and was the unanimous Offensive Player of the Year. He led the conference in points (83), points per game (4.88), assists (52), and assists per game (3.06). The senior ranked sixth in the nation in assists per game and eighth in points per game. Kearnan set the MAAC’s and Canisius’ single-season records for points (83) and assists (52).
Corrigan claimed his second career MAAC Defensive Player of the Year honor this past season. He is only the second MAAC men’s lacrosse student-athlete to win multiple Defensive Player of the Year awards (Providence’s Brian O’Rorke won three-straight from 2002-04). Over the course of his career he earned All-MAAC honors three times. He was a First Team selection in 2016 and 2017 and a Second Team honoree in 2018. Corrigan was named MAAC Defensive Player of the Week twice this season.
Morrison was named to the All-MAAC First Team and ECAC Second Team as a senior. It was the third time in his career that he was named to the All-MAAC First Team. He tallied 54 points (28 goals, 26 assists) to lead the Red Foxes. Morrison ranked second in the MAAC in points per game (3.6) and assists per game (1.73). The attack recorded five or more points in a game seven times this season, including a season-high six in a win over Siena on April 7.
About the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference:
With 11 institutions strongly bound by the sound principles of quality and integrity in academics and excellence in athletics, the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference (MAAC) is in its 37
th year of competition during the 2017-18 academic year. Current Conference members include: Canisius College, Fairfield University, Iona College, Manhattan College, Marist College, Monmouth University, Niagara University, Quinnipiac University, Rider University, Saint Peter’s University, and Siena College.