2003 Recruits Stay Close to Home

October 18, 2003 - The college class of 2007 left for their new homes this fall, but according to data from LaxPower.com, most will not be far from their family homes this year. Of the twenty-seven players listed as moving on to the college lacrosse ranks, all but five are within an easy drive from Rochester.

Four players have commited to St. John Fisher and two will attend Nazareth. Three more will tryout for RIT and another will go to Brockport. Geneseo expectes Irondequoit's defenseman, Kurt Tschetter.

Just a little farther away are three at Binghamton, including Irondequoit's Nate Kerstein and Penn Yan's Hans Van Houten. Mercyhurst College, who made the final four in division II last year picked up three local boys include BJ Linder (Schroeder), Jim Coriale (Penn Yan) and Penfield's Joe Thon. Penfield's Tim Randall will be right down the road at Cornell. Lycoming College in Williamsport, PA picked up Fairport's Tom Nairn.

Still within an easy drive will be Brett Queener at Penn State, Mike Sturcken at Utica and Nick Marrapese at Gettysburg.

Four players left for the state of Maryland including Mark Johnson (Maryland), Vincent Bove at Navy, Brandon Rose at Towson and Devin Carlson at St. Mary's. Farthest away on the list is Schroeder's defenseman, Peter Carlevatti who signed on at Queens University in Charlotte, North Carolina.

Of the twenty-seven players, eight are in division I schools, four are at division II schools and the rest are at division III schools.

Player	Home	High School	Position	College	Div
Kerstein, Nate	Rochester	Irondequoit	Attack	Binghamton	1
Van Houten, Hans	Penn Yan	Penn Yan	Defense	Binghamton	1
Osborne, Matt	Waterloo	Waterloo	Defense	Binghamton	1
Randall, Tim	Penfield	Penfield	Midfield	Cornell	1
Johnson, Mark	Rochester	Irondequoit	Midfield	Maryland	1
Bove, Vincent	Seneca Falls	Mercersburg Academy (PA)	Goalie	Navy	1
Queener, Brett	Penn Yan	Penn Yan	Goalie	Penn State	1
Rose, Brandon	Rochester	Rush Henrietta	Defense	Towson	1
Thon, Joe	Penfield	Penfield	LSM	Mercyhurst	2
Coriale, Jim	Penn Yan	Penn Yan	Midfield	Mercyhurst	2
Lindner, B.J.	Webster	Schroeder	Attack	Mercyhurst	2
Carlevatti, Peter	Webster	Webster Shroeder	Defense	Queens	2
Rader, Kyle	Victor	Victor	Defense	Brockport State	3
Tschetter, Kurt	Irondequoit	Irondequoit	Defense	Geneseo State	3
Marrapese, Nick	Rochester	Irondequoit	Defense	Gettysburg	3
Nairn, Thomas	Fairport	Fairport	Attack	Lycoming	3
Adamo, Joe	Canandaigua	Canandaigua/Bridgton Acad.	Attack	Nazareth	3
Pino, Chad	Irondequoit	Irondequoit	Midfield	Nazareth	3
Corey, Chris	Rochester	Irondequoit	Midfield	RIT	3
Frustaci, Rob	West Henrietta	Rush Henrietta	Attack	RIT	3
Lazio, Andrew	Fairport	Rush Henrietta	Attack/Midfield	RIT	3
Hargarther, Matthew	Rochester	Fairport	Attack	St. John Fisher	3
Magio, Matthew	Rochester	Livonia	Goalie	St. John Fisher	3
Benulis, Mathew	Rochester	Victor	Attack	St. John Fisher	3
Hondorf, Brian	Rochester	Webster	Goalie	St. John Fisher	3
Carlson, Devin	Penfield	Penfield	Defense	St. Mary's (MD)	3
Sturcken, Mike	Fairport	Fairport	Goalie	Utica	3

The men's recruitment database on LaxPower is available.