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2024 Men's Lacrosse

1 Riley Mitchell

  • Height 5-8
  • Weight 170
  • Year Graduate Student
  • Hometown Owings Mills, Md.
  • High School McDonogh School
  • Position M
  • Major Elementary Education

Biography

2023 All-ODAC First-Team
2023 UCILA First-Team All-America
2023 IMLCA First-Team All-Region
2023 VaSID First-Team All-State

2022 USILA Honorable Mention All-America
2022 USA Lacrosse Magazine Honorable Mention All-America
2022 IMLCA Second-Team All-Region 4
2022 First-Team All-ODAC
2021 Third-Team All-ODAC

2023 (Senior): Appeared in 21 games while starting  seven while scoring 32 goals and recording 30 assists and 62 points with one goal being a man up and two goals a man down … He secured  23 ground balls … He totaled 138 shots with 80 being on goal … He scored Hat Tricks against Stevenson, #6 Washington and Lee, and Roanoke while also scoring  four goals against Roanoke later on in the season … He was third on the team in goals scored, second on the team in assists and led the team in points … 

2022 (Junior): Appeared and Started in every game while scoring 40 goals and 16 assists with a total of 56 points … He scored  five goals with a man up and won 15 ground balls and caused  three turnovers .. He recorded 87 shots with 60 being on goal and was second on the team in goals and was third on the team in assists and was also third on the team for points… He scored Hat Tricks against Washington and Lee, Bridgewater, Hampden Sydney, and Roanoke, and also  four goals against Shanandoah and Hampden Sydney to help win the ODAC Championship … He was also First-Team All-ODAC, IMLCA Second-Team All-Region, USA Lacrosse Magazine Honorable Mention All-America, and USILA Honorable Mention All-America

2021 (Sophomore): Appeared in all 21 games, stepping into a starting midfield role early in the year ... Ranked sixth on the team with 26 goals, also making six assists ... Enjoyed his first multi-goal game March 6 in a win over No. 1 Salisbury ... Had a hat trick and an assist May 15 in the NCAA first-round victory over Pfeiffer.

2020 (Freshman): Played in all five games in his shortened first season with the program ... Scored his first collegiate goal Feb. 15 in a win over No. 12 Franklin & Marshall.

Before Lynchburg: Team captain for the Eagles ... Also competed in soccer and wrestling.


Personal

Parents: Kim and Gary

Siblings: Tye, Finn, and Haydn

Dream Vacation: Hawai'i

Favorite Movie: Step Brothers

Favorite Book: Into the Wild

Statistics

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Historical Player Information

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    2020Freshman

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    5'8" 150 lbs
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    2021Sophomore

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    5'8" 150 lbs
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    2022Junior

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    5'8" 150 lbs
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    2023Senior

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    5'8" 150 lbs
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    2024Graduate Student

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    5'8" 170 lbs
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