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Nestled up in Burlington, 45 miles south of the Canadian border, Vermont is the northernmost DI program in college lacrosse. And featuring players from 17 different states, three Canadian provinces, as well as one from Europe, they cast one of the widest nets on the recruiting trail.
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Since UAlbany’s trip to Championship Weekend in 2018, the America East has become more wide open and thus more competitive from top to bottom. UMBC won the conference as the No. 4 seed in 2019 and Vermont won the conference in 2021 to make their first-ever trip to the NCAA Tournament. With so much talent returning for both of those aforementioned squads, as well as UAlbany and Stony Brook, it should be a tightly-contested race at the top once again in 2022.
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The Stony Brook Seawolves have released their 2022 men’s lacrosse schedule, becoming the 52nd DI program and sixth from the America East to do so. The Seawolves are coming off a 2021 campaign in which they went 8-6 overall (6-3 America East). They saw their season end in the America East semifinals against Vermont, 10-7.
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The 2021 season marked a new era for NJIT lacrosse as the Highlanders joined the America East conference, along with the rest of the athletic department, after spending their first six seasons of play as an independent.
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UMass Lowell first started playing lacrosse in 2015 and by the time 2018 rolled around had established a solid foundation, and thus was a beneficiary of that fourth-season bump that many new programs often have. The River Hawks went 8-8 overall (3-3 America East) and made the postseason for the first time. They gave eventual America East champion NCAA Semifinalist UAlbany a run for their money in the conference semifinals, losing 15-10 in a game that was saw four ties in the second half.
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The NJIT Highlanders are the 29th DI team and fifth from the America East to release their 2022 men’s lacrosse schedule. The Highlanders are coming off a 2021 campaign in which they went 1-10 (1-8 America East) against a conference-heavy schedule. 2022 marks the Highlanders second season and first normal one in the America East.
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Since its introduction in the fall of 2018, the NCAA Transfer Portal has changed college lacrosse, and college sports in general, for good. The portal has streamlined the transfer process and in turn given players more power than ever before over the direction of their college lacrosse careers.
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The UAlbany Great Danes are the 26th DI program and fourth from the America East to release their 2022 men’s lacrosse schedule. The Great Danes are coming off a campaign in 2021 in which they went 8-5 overall (5-3 America East) against an America East-heavy schedule. Their season came to an end in the America East title game, falling 15-10 to Vermont.
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The UMBC Retrievers are the 24th DI program and first from the America East to release their 2022 men’s lacrosse schedule. The Retrievers are coming off a 2021 campaign in which they went 8-3 overall (7-2 America East) and saw their season come to an end in the conference semifinals against UAlbany.
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Since Chris Feifs’ arrival in Burlington ahead of the 2017 season, the Vermont Catamounts have done nothing but maintain their status as one of the powers in the America East, appearing in the conference title game during the second and third years of the Feifs era (2018, 2019), as well as in 2016.
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