Schmeisser Award

The William C. Schmeisser Award is an award given annually to the NCAA's most outstanding defenseman in men's college lacrosse. The award is presented by the USILA and is named after William C. "Father Bill" Schmeisser, a player and coach for Johns Hopkins University in the early 1900s.[1] Schmeisser played defense at Hopkins from 1900 to 1902. He was head coach of the Blue Jays from 1907 to 1911 and continued to serve as an advisory coach to the team thereafter, accompanying the team to the 1928 Olympics in Amsterdam. He was a charter founder of the Mt. Washington Lacrosse Club and was inducted into the U.S. Lacrosse Hall of Fame in 1957.[2]

Award Winners by Year

Year Player School
1942 Tyler Campbell Princeton
1943 George Riepe Johns Hopkins
1944 Fred Allner, Jr. Cornell
1945 Charles Guy Navy
1946 Bob Fetters Maryland
1947 Fred Allner, Jr. Princeton
1948 John McEnery Army
1949 Lloyd Bunting Johns Hopkins
1950 Kin Yellott Yale
1951 Joe Sollers Johns Hopkins
1952 Bill Hubbell Maryland
1953 Jack Johnson Army
1954 Stan Swanson Navy
1955 John Raster Navy
1956 John Simmons Maryland
1957 Ben Glyphis Army
1958 Walt Mitchell Johns Hopkins
1959 Don Tillar Army
1960 Bill Carpenter Army
1961 Mike Byrne Johns Hopkins
1962 Bob Fuelhart Army
1963 Mike Coughlin Navy
1964 Jim Campbell Navy
1965 Pat Donnelly Navy
1966 Hank Kaestner Johns Hopkins
1967 Hank Kaestner Johns Hopkins
1968 Carl Tamulevich Navy
1969 Mike Clark Johns Hopkins
1970 Greg Murphy Navy
1971 John Burnap Cornell
1972 Tom O’Leary Army
1973 Mike Thearle Maryland
1974 Boo Smith Virginia
1975 John Lawlor Navy
1976 Mike Farrell Maryland
1977 Chris Kane Cornell
1978 Chris Kane Cornell
1979 Mark Greenberg Johns Hopkins
1980 Mark Greenberg Johns Hopkins
1981 Bob Henry Army
1982 George McGeeney UMBC
1983 Steve Byrne Virginia
1984 Tom Haus North Carolina
1985 John DeTommaso Johns Hopkins
1986 Tom Haus North Carolina
1987 Tom Haus North Carolina
1988 Dave Pietramala Johns Hopkins
1989 Dave Pietramala Johns Hopkins
1990 Pat McCabe Syracuse
1991 Graham Harden North Carolina
1992 Brian Burlace Maryland
1992 David Morrow Princeton
1993 David Morrow Princeton
1994 Reid Jackson Rutgers
1995 Dan Radebaugh Maryland
1996 Tyler Hardy Duke
1997 Brian Kuczma Johns Hopkins
1998 Christian Cook Princeton
1999 Ryan Curtis Virginia
2000 Marshall Abrams Syracuse
2001 Ryan Mollett Princeton
2002 John Glatzel Syracuse
2003 Michael Howley Maryland
2004 Lee Zink Maryland
2005 Brodie Merrill Georgetown
2006 Michael Culver Virginia
2007 Mitchell Belisle Cornell
2008 Nick O’Hara Duke
2009 Michael Evans Johns Hopkins
2010 Ken Clausen
Ryan Flanagan		 Virginia
North Carolina
2011 John Lade Syracuse
2012 Tucker Durkin Johns Hopkins
2013 Tucker Durkin Johns Hopkins
2014 Joe Fletcher[3] Loyola
2015 Matt Landis Notre Dame
2016 Matt Landis Notre Dame
2017 Tim Muller Maryland
2018 John Sexton Notre Dame
2019 Johnny Surdick Army
2020 None (Season canceled due to COVID-19 Pandemic)
2021 JT Giles-Harris Duke
2022 Will Bowen Georgetown
2023 Gavin Adler Cornell
2024 Jake Piseno Albany

Number of Awards by University

Rank School Awards
1 Johns Hopkins University 17
2 University of Maryland 10
3 United States Naval Academy 9
3 United States Military Academy 9
5 Princeton University 6
5 Cornell University 6
7 University of North Carolina 5
7 University of Virginia 5
9 Syracuse University 4
10 Duke University 3
10 University of Notre Dame 3
12 Georgetown University 2
13 Loyola University Maryland 1
13 Yale University 1
13 University of Maryland, Baltimore County 1
13 Rutgers University 1
13 University at Albany 1

See also

References

  1. ^ "The Lore of Victory: JHU Lacrosse Quiz". JHU.edu. Retrieved 2010-05-28.
  2. ^ "Lacrosse Positional Awards: Who they're named for". InsideLacrosse.com. 2009-05-17. Archived from the original on 2010-06-02. Retrieved 2010-05-28.
  3. ^ "Fletcher Named Nation's Most Outstanding Defender". LoyolaGreyhounds.com. 2014-05-23. Retrieved 2014-05-26.


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