St. Catharines Athletics Jr. A

The St. Catharines Athletics are Junior "A" box lacrosse team from St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada. The Athletics play in the OLA Junior A Lacrosse League.

:St. Catharines Athletics 1877-1953, 1958-1961, 1982 to Present:St. Catharines Teepees 1954:St. Catharines Norseen 1955-1956:St. Catharines Supertests 1964 - 1966:St. Catharines Lakesides 1967 - 1971:St. Catharines Legionaires 1972 - 1977

History

The St. Catharines Athletics Jr.A squad has played in various arenas and under many different names in their history. They also had many years in which the team was defunct. However, the organization has been running successfully without danger of defunction since 1982. During their history, the team has won six Minto Cup championships (1947, 1950, 1990, 1991, 2001, 2003.)

NLL Players

Many talented and successful St. Catharines lacrosse players who played for the Athletics have gone on to play in the National Lacrosse League. Current players included are:
*Pat McCready - Buffalo Bandits
*Ian Llord - Buffalo Bandits
*Sean Greenhalgh - Buffalo Bandits
*Billy Dee Smith - Buffalo Bandits
*Mark Steenhuis - Buffalo Bandits
*Steve Toll - Rochester Knighthawks
*Andrew Potter - Rochester Knighthawks
*Joel McCready - Rochester Knighthawks
*Craig Conn - Toronto Rock
*Mike Attwood - Toronto Rock
*Ian Rubel - Minnesota Swarm
*Brad Favero - Minnesota Swarm
*Thomas Hajek - Philadelphia Wings
*Dylan Llord - Colorado Mammoth
*Andrew Burkholder - Chicago Shamrox
*Matt Vinc - New York Titans
*Kyle Neufeld - Calgary Roughnecks
*Eric Lamothe - Calgary Roughnecks

There is also a notable amount of players outside of St.Catharineswho have gone on to successful careers after playing for the Athletics. Players included are:

*Luke Wiles - San Jose Stealth (one season)
*Frank Resetarits - San Jose Stealth
*Mike Hominuck - Edmonton Rush
*Rory Glaves - Edmonton Rush
*Mike Accursi - Buffalo Bandits
*Brett Bucktooth - Buffalo Bandits (one season)
*Athan Iannucci - Philadelphia Wings (one season)
*Darris Kilgour - retired
* Cam Bomberry - retired.

eason-by-Season Results

"Note: GP = Games played, W = Wins, L = Losses, T = Ties, Pts = Points, GF = Goals for, GA = Goals against"

External links

* [http://jrathletics.tripod.com/index.html Athletics Webpage]
* [http://wamper.exocomm.com/ The Bible of Lacrosse]
* [http://www3.sympatico.ca/glendundas/unofficialola.html Unofficial OLA Page]
* [http://www.athleticslacrosse.com Gardell's History of the Athletics]