In the earliest years, there were only 199 All-Americans for the whole country, so the number in each area that played was small. Monroe County and Finger Lakes teams shared the number of awards and picked their own winners.

[Ed Note: As we celebrate 100 Years, we will be looking at players and coaches throughout the time period. Today, lets look at some special players (from the 1970's through 2020's.)]

The first National Interscholastic Lacrosse Association All-Americans in Section V were awarded in 1971 when Andrew Gallina* from Irondequoit and Jim Darcangelo from Corning East were the recipients.  Gallina led the league is points his senior year and continued his career at Brown. Darcangelo went on to play at Towson, where he was a three-time All-American, two-time “Player of the Year” and was inducted into the National Hall of Fame in 1990.

As of this writing, there have been 208 All-American awards from 1971 to 2021. The formula for the number of awards has changed over the fifty years and the one constant in the process is that the coaches in the section have selected the winners.

Fifteen players have had the great distinction of being selected in both their junior and senior years.

Irondequoit finished their league season second in Monroe County Division II with a 4-1 (12-4 overall). Their only loss came to Class A Champion Thomas. The Eagles were seeded second in the Class B tournament and lost to State Champion Canandaigua in the finals.

Penn Yan, currently ranked first in the SportsFive Class C list and Aquinas, currently ranked second played tonight at Aquinas with the Mustangs winning 14-6. Of the other thirteen games played today all were won by five or more and seven were won by ten or more.

For many years the focus of lacrosse at the end of the year would be mostly about the Class A teams. This year that changes, as there will be first-rate games in all three classes when it becomes tournament time.

The All Star list is out recognizing the Monroe County League players for the 2009 season. Senior midfielders Kyle Van Thof (Penfield) and Drew Coholan (Irondequoit) and junior attackmen Brendan Saylor (Fairport) and Jack Hinderland were selected as USLAcrosse All Americans.

At the end of the season we have a wrap up with links to tournaments and awards.

The Rochester Democrat and Chronicle has announced their third AGR Lacrosse team, with Player of the Year honors going to Canandaigua midfielder Marshall Johnson. Canandaigua Head Coach, Ed Mulheron was named AGR Coach of the Year for the second year in a row.

The Rochester Chapter of USLacrosse has announced the 2009 Senior All Star Game selections.

Brad Hutton scored the winning goal in overtime to send Webster Thomas (Class A) into the NYS Tournament along with Canandaigua (Class B) and Penn Yan (Class C), who all won Section Five Championships today at St. John Fisher College.

All Tournament Teams have been announced for 2009. MVP for A, B and C were Kenny Tomeno (Thomas), Deven Alves (Canandaigua) and, for the second year in a row, Matt Osgood (Penn Yan).
  
Matt Osgood (Penn Yan) was named Section Five Offensive Player of the Year. Sean Regan (Canandaigua) was named Defensive Player of the Year and Kyle Van Thof (Penfield) was named Sportsman of the Year More. . . .

The All Star list is out recognizing the Monroe County League players for the 2009 season. Senior midfielders Kyle Van Thof (Penfield) and Drew Coholan (Irondequoit) and junior attackmen Brendan Saylor (Fairport) and Jack Hinderland were selected as USLAcrosse All Americans.

The All Star list is out recognizing the Monroe County League players for the 2009 season. Senior midfielders Kyle Van Thof (Penfield) and Drew Coholan (Irondequoit) and junior attackmen Brendan Saylor (Fairport) and Jack Hinderland were selected as USLAcrosse All Americans.

Livonia (#3) upset Aquinas (#2) 10-9 in a Class C game. All other games were won by the first and second seeds. Fairport beat Schroeder 9-8, Thomas beat Pittsford 10-8, Canandaigua beat Brighton 15-7 and Irondequoit was a 12-5 winner over McQuaid Jesuit. In the other Class C game, Penn Yan defeated Geneva 9-7.

McQuaid Jesuit and Victor finished their game that was suspended in the second quarter Thursday, and in the end the Knights won 10-7. Irondequoit had a 19-0 win over Newark and Brighton won 11-3 in the night game.

Thomas won a contest of heavyweights with a 18-6 victory over visiting Irondequoit. Rush-Henrietta was a 13-11 winner over Gates Chili and HFL won their game 11-10 over Eastridge. Other winners on the last big night of games were Fairport, Brighton, Canandaigua, Brockport, Penn Yan, Batavia, Schroeder, C-C, Midlakes and Pal-Mac.

Canandaigua was a won goal winner over Geneva (6-5). Spencerport won their game with Brockport in overtime (11-10). Pal-Mac beat B-H by one (7-6) and Midlakes, Penfield, Waterloo, Fairport, Batavia, Irondequoit, Brighton and Thomas were all winners in the last week of the regular season.

Webster Schroeder was a 12-8 winner over Penfield and Waterloo beat Bloomfield-Honeoye 12-11 in overtime as the two winners were joined by twelve others at the regular season starts to run down.

Canandaigua beat Penn Yan 12-11, Aquinas beat Livonia 9-8 and Rush-Henrietta beat Churchville-Chili 9-8 and each game was won in overtime. The others winning games today were Penfield, Geneva, Thunder, Batavia, Thomas, Irondequoit, Schroeder, Brockport, Mynderse, Hilton, Bloomfield-Honeoye, McQuaid Jesuit and Brighton.

Matt Osgood scored the game winner for Penn Yan in overtime as they defeated Hamburg (Section VI) 11-10. The Thunder beat Newark 11-9 and Pal-Mac was an 11-10 winner over Waterloo.

It was Irondequoit 10-5 over Victor in Monroe County D-2 play tonight.

It was Penfield over Gates Chili (12-6), Irondequoit over Aquinas (10-8) and Thomas over McQuaid Jesuit (14-4). Other winners were Penn Yan, Mynderse over Waterloo in OT, Pal-Mac and Spencerport.

It was a busy night for SportsFive as there were 16 games held under mostly rainy skies today in Section Five. Fairport was able to beat Irondequoit 10-6 at home.

Ithaca (Section IV) used overtime to defeat Irondequoit 7-6 this afternoon. Other close games included Penfield 8-7 over Hilton, Pal-Mac 6-5 over Midlakes, Pittsford 8-6 over McQuaid Jesuit and Gates Chili 6-4 over Spencerport. Other winners included Aquinas, Mynderse, Penn Yan and Canandaigua.

There were ten games in Section Five today. Livonia had an exciting win over Geneva, HFL won their game in OT, Irondequoit won their fifth game of the season with a win over Churchville-Chili and Pittsford beat Schroeder 9-5.

here were a number of exciting games today as ten games were played. Churchville-Chili won their first every game against Schroeder (9-5).

Irondequoit ended their league season second in Monroe County Division I with a 9-1 record (14-2 overall). Seeded second in the Class A tournament, the Eagles lost to Canandaigua in the Section Five Finals and finished as seeded.

Face offs were a key part of a number of games tonight with Thomas players combining for 12/18, Canandaigua's Marshall Johnson winning 20/20 in their 15-5 win over Penn Yan, Max Brauer winning 15/22 face offs for Brighton in their 19-2 win over the Lightning.

Although a number of games resulted in blowouts today, two were settled in overtime and two others were very close. Churchville-Chili was a 9-8 ot winner against Gates Chili, and Aquinas was a 10-9 ot winner against McQuaid Jesuit in GRALL Play.

With a major change in the NYS Class alignments, Canandaigua and Irondequoit move to Class B, making that class much more challenging, while maintaining that exciting rivalry. Geneva and Aquinas, who have, in the past, elected to move up from Class C, now like the idea of taking on Penn Yan instead of CA and IQ.

There were eleven games on an unusually beautiful March game day. Pittsford won a 6-5 game against Churchville-Chili, and Irondequoit won an 11-6 victory over Penfield, but the rest of the games were lopsided victories and six went into running time.

Irondequoit traveled to Section Three tonight to take on West Genesee. In a close game the Wildcats, scoring two goals in the last two minutes of the game, came away with an 8-6 victory.

The Rochester Democrat and Chronicle has announced their second AGR Lacrosse team, with Player of the Year honors going to Canandaigua goalie Scott Bement. Canandaigua Head Coach, Ed Mulheron was named AGR Coach of the Year.

Team Rochester was undefeated at 6-0 on their way to win the the first Adidas National Lacrosse Classic, held in Germantown, MD.

Hudson Valley controlled the game and won the bronze medal (7-5) in men's lacrosse at the 31st annual Empire State Games. The entire team contributed to the victory but the game was won on the exemplary achievements of two particular Valley players.

Western played a smart game and defeated Adirondack 11-4. Western attack led their scoring with 9/11 goals. Adirondack had four different players score.

The fourth quarter was the deciding factor in the Hudson Valley vs Western game. Western won the first quarter 4-2 and held the two goal lead for three quarters.Valley scored four unanswered goals at the start the last quarter to take the lead away from Western and build their own two goal lead.

In one of the best games of the tournament, Western and Central played an exciting game with two equally matched teams. Both teams were in excellent form and demonstrated a high level of lacrosse skill and team strategy.

Long Island opened up with a hard fought victory over Western. The game was a game of streaks with the Island having a streak of four and one of eight while Western had two streaks of four and one of three.

The All Star list is out recognizing the Monroe County League players for the 2008 season. Senior attackmen Connor Rice (Penfield), Greg Wright (Irondequoit) and junior Drew Coholan (Irondequoit) were selected as USLAcrosse All Americans.

The All Star list is out recognizing the Monroe County League players for the 2008 season. Senior attackmen Connor Rice (Penfield), Greg Wright (Irondequoit) and junior Drew Coholan (Irondequoit) were selected as USLAcrosse All Americans.

The All Star list is out recognizing the Monroe County League players for the 2008 season. Senior attackmen Connor Rice (Penfield), Greg Wright (Irondequoit) and junior Drew Coholan (Irondequoit) were selected as USLAcrosse All Americans.

All Tournament Teams have been announced for 2008. MVP for A, B and C were Marshall Johnson (Canandaigua), Jim Warner (Geneva) and Matt Osgood (Penn Yan).

Although wins by both Penn Yan and Canandaigua were surprising mismatches, a four goal streak with just over a minute gave Geneva a 14-13 win in the Class B Championships at St. John Fisher College on Friday.

Fans who chose to go to Aquinas tonight to see the Class A semi finals were treated to two of the best games of the season. Canandaigua held on to their undefeated season by one goal as the defeated a fired up Thomas team.

Penfield (#3) won a squeaker in overtime and advances to the semi finals after a 6-5 win over Schroeder (#6). Thomas(#5) beat McQuaid Jesuit (#4) 14-9) while Canandaigua(#1) remains undefeated.

As usual, it was generally a lot to a little in the out bracket games. As every Section Five team was entered in one of the three tournaments, the first round in Class A most games ended in blow outs.

Irondequoit avenged their first season meeting with Penfield and in a close one, ended the Patriots undefeated season. In other close games HFL beat Eastridge 9-7, Canandaigua remains the only undefeated Section Five team with a 9-7 win over Penn Yan, McQuaid Jesuit over Corning West (16-14) and Schroeder played a close one winning 8-6 over Fairpor

On the last Tuesday of the regular season there were 13 winners including Churchville, Brockport, Thomas, Irondequoit, Gates Chili, Hilton, Penfield, Schroeder, Mynderse, Geneva, Penn Yan, Haverling and Batavia.

McQuaid Jesuit won the GRALL Championship tonight in a close win over Aquinas and Canandaigua and Penfield both remained undefeated after action today.

Thomas was an 8-7 winner over Fairport, Geneva was a 9-8 winner over HFL and McQuaid Jesuit was an 9-8 overtime winner over Livonia. Other winners on Tuesday include Victor, Churchville-Chili, Irondequoit, Canandaigua, Aquinas, Pal-Mac, Bloomfield-Honeoye and Hamilton (over Mynderse).

Section Five teams won four games and lost two to out of Section games today. Winning were McQuaid Jesuit (10-9 OT) over St. Francis, Penfield (15-6) over Binghamton, Geneva (12-4) over Marcellus, and Pittsford (7-3 unconfirmed) over Frontier.

Both Penfield and Canandaigua remain undefeated with games that were easily won today. Canandaigua beat Mynderse 21-4 and Penfield beat Rush-Henrietta 20-7. Other winners included Brockport, HFL, Churchville, Thomas, Canandaigua and Penn Yan.

Penfield remains undefeated with an 11-5 win over Fairport. In other contests Ath/Ody was the winner over Batavia, Thomas over Brighton, Gates over Brockport, Hilton over Eastridge and Schroeder over Pittsford. Also winning were Irondequoit over Rush, Livonia over Haverling, Geneva over Victor and BH over Midlakes.

Most games were predictable but there were a few unexpected scores as thirteen games were played on Thursday. Greece Athena/Odyssey beat Brighton 5-4, Geneva beat Penn Yan 8-6, Newark took Midlakes 9-7 and HFL was the winner over Rush-Henrietta 14-12.

Schroeder had a big win today as they defeated Fairport 12-4. Penfield remained undefeated with an 11-7 win over Irondequoit. In other match ups it was Brockport over Arc/Oly, Thomas over CC, Gates over Ath/Ody, CA over Midlakes and Geneva over Mynderse. Pittsford had a 12-8 win over R-H, Penn Yan beat Pal-Mac, Victor was (10-7) over Waterloo and McQuaid Jesuit was a winner over BH. HFL beat Eastridge 5-4 and Aquinas beat Haverling 14-6.

Most of the games played today allowed teams to empty their benches. Among the winners were Churchville-Chili, Brockport, Thomas, Irondequoit, Gates Chili, HFL, Penfield, Schroeder and Newark Winning closer games were Victor (10-9) over Livonia, Midlakes over Mynderse (8-7) in overtime, Geneva over Corning West 15-12 and BH over Pal-Mac (8-7).

Canandaigua scored five goals in each of three quarters as the beat Corning East (Section 4) 15-6 on Evens Field. Schroeder was an overtime winner at Amherst (Section 6), Irondequoit scored six goals in the third on their way to a 14-6 win over vsiting McQuaid Jesuit and Rush-Henrietta beat Gates Chili 14-12. Waterloo lost to Section 3 winner, Jordan Elbridge on the last Saturday of spring break.
  

Canandaigua beat Fairport, Irondequoit beat Thomas and Penn Yan beat Schroeder in overtime in big match ups today. Pittsford was a overtime 7-6 winner over Hilton, Geneva beat McQuaid Jesuit 13-8, Livonia was a 12-10 winner over Waterloo and Spencerport beat Brighton 7-6.

There was lots of action on Thursday with many league games. Winners today included Irondequoit, Churchville-Chili, Fairport, Penfield, Haverling, Victor, Canandaigua, Geneva, Penn Yan Athena/Odyssey, Thomas, and McQuaid Jesuit, who won in Buffalo against St. Francis. Close games included Eastridge over Brighton (6-5) and Penfield over Schroeder.

On a sunny afternoon with temperatures in the low 60s, eleven games were were placed in Section Five. The winners included Gates Chili, Penn Yan, Irondequoit, Livonia, and Mynderse. Schroeder took C-C (8-6), Fairport was the winner over Thomas (12-8), CA beat Geneva (12-7), Midlakes beat Pal-Mac by one and McQuaid Jesuit defeated Aquinas 7-6 in overtime.

A sunny spring Saturday hosted a dozen varsity games in Section Five today. Winning were Irondequoit, Midlakes, Penfield, Spencerport, Pal-Mac, Gates Chili, Fairport, Thomas, Brockport, Churchville-Chili and HFL.

There were five games on the first Tuesday night schedule. Penfield won a close game with Thomas (11-8). Midlakes won their opener 9-2 over Batavia. Penn Yan was the 13-0 winner over visiting Mynderse while Aquinas won a close game against Churchville-Chili. West Genesee was a 7-4 winner over host Irondequoit.

Last year at this time we stated that there was some serious talent among the Class A teams.

The Rochester Democrat and Chronicle has announced thier first AGR Lacrosse team, with the first Player of the Year honors going to Webster Schroeder attackman Grant Catalino. First year Irondequoit Head Coach, Craig Whipple, who's team won their first Sectional title since 2001, was names the first AGR Coach of the Year.

Section Five teams won their games against Buffalo today and will advance to play Section Three teams on Thursday at St. John Fisher College.

While Penn Yan and Geneva won their games as many predicted, second seeded Irondequoit had a big win against the top seed, Schroeder as they posted a 14-8 win for their first Championship since 2001 when they defeated a combined Webster team 8-7.

The All Star list is out recognizing the Monroe County League players for the 2007 season. Senior attackman Grant Catalino (Schroeder), goalie Zach Nash (Irondequoit) and midfelder Tom Rynn (Fairport) were selected as USLAcrosse All Americans. Senior attackman, Mike Danylyshyn from Fairport was selected by the Monroe County coaches as the 2007 USLacrosse Academic All American.

All Tournament Teams have been announced for 2007. MVP for A, B and C were Kevin Coholan (Irondequoit), RJ Gringeri (Geneva) and Adam Trombley (Penn Yan).

The top seeds will compete in Friday's Class A championship when Irondequoit, who won a 9-7 victory of Canandaigua takes on Schroeder who beat Thomas 10-4.

It will be an all Webster semi final in the upper bracket of the Class A tournament as Thomas (#5) beat Fairport (#4) in double overtime. Schroeder beat last years's Champion, Penfield 13-4. All the other top seeded teams won, including Irondequoit, Canandaigua, Penn Yan Midlakes, Livonia, Waterloo and in Class B, Victor.

All but one game in the Class A out bracket round was won by the higher seed and that one exception saw a determined Pittsford (11th) beat Rush-Henrietta (#6) and a exciting and very close game.

There were a number of close games with only one regular season day left before the Section Five Tournament begins. Penfield beat R-H in overtime, as did Newark in their game over Midlakes. McQuaid Jesuit won the GRALL championship and Irondequoit had a big win against Fairport.

In the last week of the regular season, the MC league is nearly finished and there was lots of action today. Winners included Fairport, Schroeder, Spencerport, Eastridge, Irondequoit, Churchville, Hilton, Brockport, Newark, Waterloo, Livonia, Geneva and Canandaigua.

There were big wins today for Irondequoit (over Schroeder) and Rush-Henrietta (over Fairport), while Thomas won an OT victory over Eastridge and Penfield used a last quarter push to beat Pittsford. Other winners today included HFL, C-C, Brockport, GC and Brighton.

With league games the mainstay, winners included Fairport or Penfield, Schroeder over RH and Irondequoit over Pittsford. Other winners included Brockport, Spencerport, CC, Thomas. HFL and McQuaid Jesuit.

NIne games were played today. Livonia beat McQuaid Jesuit 11-7, Pittsford was a 12-5 winner over HFL, C-C beat Eastridge 15-8. Other winners included AQ, G-C, Ath/Ody, IHS, R-H and Brockport.

Fairport defeated the last of the undefeated teams this afternoon when the beat visiting Irondequoit, 8-7 in overtime. Rush-Henrietta had a 10-9 win over Penfield, Pittsford played a great game against Schroeder but lost 7-9. The Thunder won in the 2nd OT. A total of 13 games were scheduled on Thursday.

Canandaigua was a decisive winner over Penn Yan today. Fairport beat Corning East 10-3, Schroeder won the cross town game and Irondequoit remained undefeated with a win over Gates Chili today. Other winners included Eastridge, Brighton, R-H, C-C, Penfield and AQ .

Twelve games were scheduled for Thursday and among the winners were Irondequoit, Penn Yan, Schroeder, Canandaigua, Livonia, Gates, Churchville and the Thunder. Also winning were Eastridge, Waterloo and Midlakes.

Lafayette scored two goals in the last few minutes of the game and then scored the game winner in the second over time period to give the Section 3 team a 10-9 victory over host Penn Yan. In other games on Friday, Irondequoit remained undefeated with a 7-2 win over C-C, Hilton was a 19-5 winner over Ath/Ody and Aquinas was a 15-8 winner over Eastridge.

In a preview of a possible final four Class A game, Canandaigua was a winner over Webster Schroeder 9-7 at McAvoy. Thomas was a 15-7 winner over Brighton and Irondequoit took a 12-6 win over HFL.

Every game was expected to be close today, and although day-time games cut into the spectator numbers, many fans were not disappointed as the Schroeder/Penn Yan, Canandaigua/Fairport and McQuaid Jesuit/Brighton games were won by single goal margins.

Fairport played another overtime game today, winning this time in two over time periods against Penfield, 9-8. Two games featured Head Coach brother against brother. Craig Whipple beat his brother Andrew as Irondequoit was the 8-4 winner over Pittsford and Tom MacMillan beat brother Mark as HFL was the 10-5 winner over Brighton.

The Rochester Chapter of USLacrosse has announced the 2009 Senior All Star Game selections. This year's contest, featuring some of the best of the graduating seniors will be held on Saturday, July 11th at Victor High School. The boys' game will be at 7:00 PM and will be preceded by the Girls' game at 5:00 PM.