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Ryan Boyle
2004–
NicknameRipp, Bro
WebsiteNLL website
Career highlights
College highlights
  • Men's Ivy League Rookie of the Year (2001)
  • Men's Ivy League Player of the Year (2002 & 2004)
  • All-American 3x (1st team: 2003 & 2004; 2nd team: 2002; 3rd team: 2001)
  • USILA Scholar All-American (2004)
  • All-Ivy League (1st team: 2002, 2003 & 2004; 2nd team: 2001)
  • 2001
    )
Records
  • Major League Lacrosse Rookie points (45, 2004–present)
  • Princeton single-season assists (48, 2003–present)
  • Ivy League single-season assists (32, 2003–present)
  • Ivy League career points (120, 2004–present)
  • Ivy League career assists (84, 2004–present)
  • MIAA single-season pass completion percentage (78%, 1998–present)
Professional highlights
  • Major League Lacrosse Rookie of the Year (2004)
  • Major League Lacrosse All-Star 5x
  • Major League Lacrosse
    Steinfeld Cup
    Champions (2004, 2006 & 2007)
  • National Lacrosse League Rookie of the Year (2005)
  • National Lacrosse League All-Star (2005 & 2007)
Ryan Boyle
Medal record
Representing  United States
Lacrosse
World Lacrosse Championship
Gold medal – first place 2002 Perth Field lacrosse
Silver medal – second place 2006 London (Ontario) Field lacrosse
Gold medal – first place 2010 Manchester Field lacrosse

Ryan J. Boyle (born November 22, 1981, in Hunt Valley, Maryland) is a former lacrosse player who last played professional field lacrosse for the Boston Cannons of Major League Lacrosse (MLL). He most recently played professional box lacrosse for the Philadelphia Wings of the National Lacrosse League (NLL) until his release in 2011. Boyle starred in both lacrosse and American football for Gilman School from 1996 to 2000. He starred as a member of the Princeton Tigers men's lacrosse team from 2001 through 2004. Boyle was also a member of the Men's Lacrosse Team USA for the 2002, 2006 and 2010 World Lacrosse Championships.

At Gilman, he was an All-American lacrosse player who was named All-city four times and All-metro three times (Player of the Year once), leading his team to two championships. He was a two-time All-metro quarterback who led his school through two consecutive undefeated championship seasons and set a Maryland Interscholastic Athletic Association record for pass completion percentage.

During his time at

All-American (twice first team) and four-time All-Ivy League selection (first team three times and second team once). He was Ivy League Player of the Year twice and Ivy League Rookie of the Year. He established numerous Ivy League records and won numerous NCAA statistical championships during his career. In addition to his All-American recognitions from the United States Intercollegiate Lacrosse Association
(USILA), he was recognized by USILA as a Scholar All-American.

As a professional, he has earned four MLL championships, and has been rookie of the year in both the MLL and NLL. He has participated in five MLL All-Star games and two NLL All-star games. He is also a three-time Team USA representative and two-time gold medalist at the World Lacrosse Championship.

High school career

Boyle is from

grade point average.[6] As a starting quarterback, his record was 26–2.[7] Boyle, who started calling his own plays as a junior, amassed career totals of 3,593 passing yards and 2,051 rushing yards.[8][9] In lacrosse he totaled 258 points.[6] Boyle also played basketball in high school and was co-winner of the Greater Baltimore Chapter National Football Foundation Hall of Fame scholar athlete award as a senior.[7] Boyle intended to play both football and lacrosse at Princeton.[6]

As a sophomore option offense quarterback, he totaled 812 yards and five touchdowns rushing as well as 465 yards and four touchdowns passing.[10] As a junior, he set the Maryland state high school single-season pass completion percentage record of 78 percent (surpassing 69.4 established by Ryan Fleetwood of Cambridge) on 117 of 150 passing for 1,908 yards and 20 touchdowns in addition to rushing for 535 yards and five touchdowns.[11][12] As a senior, he went 76-for-107 passing (71 percent) for 1,220 yards and 14 touchdowns and 704 yards rushing with eight touchdowns as a senior.[8][9] In the 1999 championship game 42–10 victory over McDonogh High School to cap a 10–0 season, Boyle rushed for 100 yards and completed 14 of 20 passes for 146 yards.[13]

In lacrosse, as a freshman he made the second team of the 1997 All-Baltimore City/County boys' lacrosse team.

St. Paul's High School, he scored four goals and had an assist.[17] As a junior, he totaled 23 goals and 28 assists to go with 60 ground balls, even though he missed three games for a surgical procedure.[18] The surgical procedure removed a hernia.[19] He was voted All-American as a junior.[20] He totaled 36 goals and 44 assists as a senior in 2000.[6] In the 2000 lacrosse championship game, he had four goals and assist in the 10–8 victory over Boys' Latin School of Maryland.[4]

College career

He attended college at

National Championship in 2001
. He finished his career with 70 goals and 162 assists good for 232 total points.

He was a first team

Tewaaraton Trophy in 2004.[30] He was a 2004 USILA Scholar All-American.[31]

Princeton earned

2001 NCAA Division I Men's Lacrosse Championship tournament.[32] They were Ivy League champion or co-champion each year of his career: The 2001 team was 6–0 undefeated outright champions; the 2002 team was 5–1 outright champions; the 2003 and 2004 teams were 5–1 co-champions.[25][26][27][33]

The arrival of freshman Boyle necessitated that senior

Steinfeld Cups together with the Philadelphia Barrage.[34]

In the 2001 game against Dartmouth to clinch the Ivy League championship, he scored three goals and had two assists as part of a 14-point 3-game stretch.[36] In the 2001 NCAA championship tournament quarterfinal 8–7 victory over Loyola, he had three assists including two that broke a 4–4 tie in the second half.[37] He added two assists in the semifinal 12–11 victory over Towson State.[38] In the 2001 NCAA championship game, Boyle assisted on B. J. Prager's overtime game-winning goal against Syracuse from behind the net.[39] It was one of a game-high three assists for Boyle in the 10–9 victory.[40]

In the

2002 NCAA Division I Men's Lacrosse Championship tournament, he scored the game-winning goal in the quarterfinal game against Georgetown with four seconds left in regulation time.[41] The goal came on a broken play after the designed play from the time-out with 13 seconds left did not work. On the day Boyle had two goals and three assists in the 14–13 victory.[42] He added three assists in the semifinal 11–9 victory over Johns Hopkins.[43] In the championship game against Syracuse, he scored two goals in the first quarter but was held scoreless for the rest of the 13–12 loss.[44]

Boyle's

2004 NCAA Division I Men's Lacrosse Championship tournament opening round, he scored a career-high four goals as Princeton defeated Rutgers 12–4.[45] In the quarterfinals, he had two late goals and assisted on Peter Trombino's overtime game-winning goal against Maryland.[46][47][48] He then had a goal (to tie the score at 5) and three assists in the 8–7 semifinals loss to Navy.[49] He made the All-tournament team.[50]

Boyle holds several Ivy League conference records: single-season assists (32, 2003), career assists (86, 2001–04) and career points (120, 2001–04).[51] Note that the Ivy League records are for conference games only. Boyle (2003) tied Jon Hess (1997) for the Princeton single-season assists record with 48.[52] He was also an NCAA national statistical champion in several statistics: points per game (2003, 4.54), assists per game (2003, 3.77), assists per game (2004, 2.93), assists (2003, 49), assists (2004, 44).[53]

Professional career

NLL

Boyle played box lacrosse in the NLL for the

2004 National Lacrosse League entry draft. In 2005, he was named NLL Rookie of the Year.[56] He won the rookie scoring title.[57] He participated in the 2005 and 2007 National Lacrosse League All-Star Games. In the January 20, 2007, first box lacrosse game played at Madison Square Garden, he scored two goals and two assists, but made more news off the field when he was photographed signing autographs for Cody Lohan and his picture appeared on Perez Hilton's blog.[58] He was picked 8th in the 2010 Orlando Titans dispersal draft by the Philadelphia Wings.[59] Boyle also played box lacrosse in the National Lacrosse League (NLL) for seven years before being released by the Philadelphia Wings in 2011.[60]

MLL

Boyle was named 2004

Rochester Rattlers.[63] In the 2010 MLL semifinals, Boyle scored two goals for the Boston Cannons in the 13–9 loss to the Chesapeake Bayhawks.[64] The following season, he helped lead the Cannons to their first league championship, while earning his fourth.[65]

Boyle has appeared in five MLL All-Star games. During the 2006 Major League Lacrosse All-Star Game weekend, Boyle won the skills competition for accuracy and then scored two goals and an assist for Team USA in the All-Star game.[66][67] He was joined by Striebel on the team in 2007.[68] In the 2010 All-Star game, he had four goals for Team USA.[69]

International

Boyle has been named to Team USA for the

hat trick in a qualification game against them.[73][74] He also had a hat trick against the Iroquois Nation in a qualification game.[75] He then had a goal and three assists against them in the semifinals.[76] In 2006, he totaled five goals and eleven assists.[72]

Other

Ryan's passion for lacrosse and youth education is exemplified by his involvement with Trilogy Lacrosse a leader in lacrosse education. He runs lacrosse camps through Trilogy as do many other successful Lacrosse players and coaches through their own various companies.[77]


Personal

Boyle is from a self-described middle-class family with six children.[1] Boyle's father, Darby, played attack for West Point men's lacrosse in the late 1960s and his older brother Michael played lacrosse for Georgetown.[2]

Statistics

NLL

    Regular Season   Playoffs
Season Team GP G A Pts LB PIM GP G A Pts LB PIM
2005 San Jose 16 22 42 64 95 12 -- -- -- -- -- --
2006 San Jose 16 16 28 44 46 4 -- -- -- -- -- --
2007 New York 16 29 53 82 77 11 -- -- -- -- -- --
2008 New York 16 17 45 62 65 4 2 0 9 9 9 0
2009 New York 16 14 40 54 70 4 3 4 7 11 20 0
2010 Orlando 16 21 39 60 40 2 2 0 5 5 3 0
2011 Philadelphia 16 12 31 43 45 0 -- -- -- -- -- --
NLL Totals 112 131 278 409 438 37 7 4 21 25 32 0

MLL

    Regular Season   Playoffs
Season Team GP G 2ptG A Pts LB PIM GP G 2ptG A Pts LB PIM
2004 Philadelphia 8 17 0 28 45 -- 0 -- -- -- -- -- -- --
2005 Philadelphia 12 28 0 24 52 22 0 -- -- -- -- -- -- --
2006 Philadelphia 7 17 0 25 42 17 0 2 2 0 5 7 1 0
2007 Philadelphia 12 26 1 31 58 26 2 2 3 0 4 7 3 1
2008 Barrage 12 21 1 22 44 28 1 1 2 0 3 5 2 0
2009 Boston 9 12 0 23 35 17 2.5 1 2 0 1 3 1 0
MLL Totals 60 121 2 163 170 110 5.5 6 9 0 18 22 7 0

Princeton University

    Regular Season  
Season GP G A Pts PPG
2004 15 23 44 67 --
2003 13 10 49 59 --
2002 15 22 31 53 --
2001 15 16 37 53 --
Totals 58 71 161 232 --

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