FELLOW FINALISTS
Rob Pannell beat out a talented field to
take Tewaaraton Award honors. The other four finalists:
Marcus Holman, North Carolina, A, Sr. Holman won ACC Offensive Player of the Year honors, and finished the season with 37 goals, 43 assists and 24 ground balls. The Tar Heels’ season ended with a quarterfinal loss to Denver.
Cornell attacker Rob Pannell set a new NCAA Division I career points record of 354 and won the Tewaaraton Award.
This Time He Won R
Fifth-year senior Pannell claims Tewaaraton in second try
By Corey McLaughlin
ob Pannell traveled to Washington, D.C., two years ago for the Tewaaraton Award ceremony — the first time he was a finalist. It was a long road back to the banquet again, and this time he won. “There’s no consolation for winning a national championship, and there never will be, but I think this award says a lot about the team I was on this year, the 15 other seniors along with myself, and the 40 other players who played great all season,” Pannell said in late May at the Smithsonian
National Museum of the American Indian. Pannell, the fifth-year Cornell attackman, beat out fellow finalists Marcus Holman (North Carolina), JoJo Marasco (Syracuse), Tom Schreiber (Princeton) and Lyle Thompson (Albany).
Pannell this year one-upped Thompson by setting the new NCAA Division I career points record of 354. He eclipsed the mark of 353 held by 2007 Tewaaraton winner Matt Danowski, who watched from the sideline at Lincoln Financial Field in Philadelphia as Pannell broke the record in
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the Big Red’s national semifinal loss to the eventual champion Blue Devils. Danowski is a Duke assistant for his father, John. Cornell’s season, and Pannell’s career, ended one game and two wins short of how he wanted them to finish. The chance to win a national championship was the reason he returned to Cornell for a fifth year. It was why he was so determined to come back from the foot injury that ended what was supposed to be his final collegiate season in 2012. That came a year after he was beat out for the Tewaaraton by Virginia’s Steele Stanwick. “It’s definitely been a roller- coaster of emotions,” Cornell
coach Ben DeLuca said. In Pannell’s acceptance speech before a standing-room-only audience, he thanked the event organizers and selection committee, and recognized the other finalists. He mentioned that the Tewaaraton would have a permanent residence in the Cornell Lacrosse offices in Ithaca, N.Y., “so people who walk in there not only see my name on it, but think about the 2013 team and how successful that we were.”
Pannell then began a list of heartfelt
JoJo Marasco, Syracuse, M, Sr. Marasco, a first-team All- American, had a career-year in helping Syracuse to the title game. He scored a team-high 66 points and his 42 assists set a program single-season record for helpers by a
midfielder.
Tom Schreiber, Princeton, M, Jr. The first-team All-Ivy pick led Princeton in scoring for a third straight season, with 32 assists and 60 points. The Tigers were a bubble team and did not make the NCAA tournament.
Lyle Thompson, Albany, A, So. The sophomore moved to attack and came within one point of tying the 23-year-old NCAA Division I single-season points record. He finished with 113, playing alongside brother, Miles, and cousin,
Ty, on a Great Danes offense that led the nation in scoring
(15.94 goals per game).
thank-yous, including his doctor, Cornell alum Dr. David Levine, which drew laughs from the crowd. But it was a serious issue. Pannell felt pain in his left foot throughout the season as he came back from the injury that derailed him last year. He had a three-inch screw inserted in his left foot to fuse snapped bone together. Running with metal in his foot was a huge mental hurdle to overcome.
Pannell ranked third in the nation in points (5.67) and assists (3.06) per game this season, and his connection with finisher Steve Mock, the nation’s leading goal-scorer with 60, was something to watch. Pannell’s 102 points this season was the most ever for a Tewaaraton winner.
“It took a while for him to get himself 100 percent comfortable,” DeLuca said, “but once he did, you really saw him take off.” LM
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