The Mass Bay Colonials: Then and Now
Compiled by Sebastian Gates
Four years ago, in the summer of 2014, forty-four athletes from all corners of the league came together to
represent their home towns and Mass Bay Youth Lacrosse League and to compete in the World Lacrosse
Championship Youth Festival in Denver, Colorado. They came together as strangers but took on some of
the best teams in North America as a close-knit team. They were the Mass Bay Colonials.
You can read about that experience in our Winter 2015 issue.
As MBYLL puts together a new group of Mass Bay Colonials to take on some of the best teams from
Southeastern United States at the 2018 Orlando Lacrosse Open this coming December, we wanted to
revisit and reconnect with some of the original members of that team who made that experience such a
special one for the league and Commonwealth as a whole.
While some have stayed in touch with the coaches and managers of the Mass Bay Colonials, almost all of
them have stayed in touch with one another. Some have become fierce rivals and competitors, some have
become teammates, and nearly all have maintained relationships.
What they had in common in the beginning was a love for lacrosse, undeniable skill in the game,
tremendous character, and a commitment to their local town program. What they have in common today
is an incredibly bright future (on-and-off the field). Here is what they are up to and for some, what this experience meant to them.
David Nagle - Whitman-Hanson
David helped BC HIgh win the MIAA
D1 Championship this year and is
off to Union College to play lacrosse
Jack Geiger - Reading
Jack helped lead Reading HS to their first MIAA D2
Championship. He is headed to
UMass Amherst (Isenberg
Business) and will play for Coach
Canella
Eric Raguin - Acton-Boxboro
Eric and AB HS made it to the MIAA D1
Championship this season. After a
post-graduate year, Eric has committed
to Brown University
Joe Franklin - Franklin
Joe was captain and starting goalie for Bishop Feehan. He won the Richard Phelps Scholarship from the Boston Globe. He is heading to Clemson University
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