Position Attack Height 1.83 m Name Lyle Thompson | NCAA team Albany Weight 180 pounds (82 kg) | |
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Born September 9, 1992 (age 31) ( 1992-09-09 ) College University at Albany, SUNY Parents Deloris Thompson, Jerome Thompson Siblings Miles Thompson, Jerome Thompson Jr., Jeremy Thompson, Crystal Thompson Nominations Best Male College Athlete ESPY Award | ||
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Lyle Thompson (born September 9, 1992) is an American professional lacrosse player for the Chesapeake Bayhawks of Major League Lacrosse and the Georgia Swarm of the National Lacrosse League. He holds the record for the most career points in Division I with 400 and the most career assists with 225. He won the Tewaaraton Trophy in 2014 (co-winner with his brother Miles) and 2015 as the most outstanding player in college lacrosse and is a two-time winner of the Turnbull Award for the top collegiate attackman.
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- Lacrosse film room lyle thompson vs notre dame s matt landis
- Early life
- College
- Florida Launch
- NLL and WILC
- Statistics
- References
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Early life
Lyle grew up in the Onondaga Nation, NY, one of the five children of Doloris and Jerome Thompson. He began playing lacrosse from a very early age as lacrosse carries spiritual and cultural significance with the Onondaga. He attended LaFayette High School for his Sophomore and Junior years and Salmon River High School where he was an All-American and scored 66 goals and 54 assists in his senior season. His brother Jeremy played lacrosse at Syracuse University, while his brother Miles and cousin Ty were teammates at Albany.
College
Playing for coach Scott Marr at Albany, Lyle started at midfield in his freshman season in 2012, scoring 22 goals and 16 assists along with taking 32 face-off draws. That was his last collegiate season scoring less than 100 points. Moving to the attack position in his sophomore year, he scored 113 in 2013, 128 in 2014, and 121 in 2015. Lyle (along with his brother Miles) is the first Native American player to win the Tewaaraton Trophy; tewaaraton is the Mohawk term for the precursor of modern lacrosse.
As a player for the Iroquois Nationals in the 2014 World Lacrosse Championship, Lyle helped the Nationals place third, their best-ever result in international competition.
Florida Launch
Lyle Thompson had his rookie season in Major League Lacrosse in 2015. He played alongside his brother Miles for the Florida Launch. Lyle's first game was played against the Ohio Machine, and he played a total of eight games for the Launch during the 2015 season. He was drafted as the top overall pick in the 2015 Collegiate Draft by the Florida Launch. He had 22 goals, and 16 assists in his first season in the MLL. On March 3rd, 2017, Lyle Thompson and his brother Jeremy Thompson were traded from the Florida Launch to the Chesapeake Bayhawks.
NLL and WILC
On September 28, 2015, Lyle was drafted first overall in the 2015 NLL draft by the Georgia Swarm. Lyle played alongside his brother Miles on the Swarm, and was named NLL Rookie of the Year in the 2016 season. In 2017, Thompson was named both league MVP and Championship MVP as the Swarm won their first NLL title.
In 2015, Lyle was selected to play for the Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) in the WILC. The Iroquois won the silver medal against Canada on September 27, 2015.