3 Native Lacrosse Players Named Early Contenders For 2013 Tewaaraton Award

The Tewaaraton Award annually honors the top male and top female college lacrosse player in the United States. The selection committees are made up of top collegiate coaches and are appointed annually by The Tewaaraton Foundation. Committees will make additions to these lists as the season progresses and athletes earn a spot alongside these elite players.

Each year, the Tewaaraton Award celebrates one of the six tribal nations of the Iroquois Confederacy: the Mohawk, Cayuga, Oneida, Onondaga, Seneca and Tuscarora. While 2013 is The Year of the Mohawk, the men’s watch list includes one member of the Mohawk Nation in UAlbany’s Ty Thompson while his cousins and teammates Miles and Lyle Thompson are both members of the Onondaga Nation. All three Thompsons are attack men for the University of Albany. On February 17 the Thompson Trio led the Great Danes to an upset over mighty Syracuse, taking the match, which went to double overtime, 16-15.

When asked for comment, Ty Thompson said, “It feels awesome to even be mentioned on a list of players like that and to be on it with my cousins Miles and Lyle makes it that much better.”

Miles & Lyle Thompson weren’t available for comment