Randy Mearns

Infobox Lacrosse Player
position = Forward
shoots = Right
height_ft = 5
height_in = 10
weight_lb = 170
former_nll_teams = Buffalo Bandits
Rochester Knighthawks
nationality = Canada
birth_date = May 28, 1969
birth_place = St. Catherines, Ontario
career_start = 1993
career_end = 2002

Randy Mearns was an All-American NCAA lacrosse player at Canisius College from 1990 to 1992 who is currently 13th all-time in Division I career points-per-game (PPG), having scored 95 goals and 95 assists for 190 career points in 39 games. He is also the all-time leading scorer at Canisius. [cite web|url=http://www.canisius.edu/athletics/teams/player_coach.asp?id=407|title=Canisius Griffins Coach Bio|last=|first=|date=|publisher=Canisius University|accessdate=] Mearns played professionally for the NLL's Buffalo Bandits and Rochester Knighthawks, acting as captain of the 1997 NLL champion Knighthawk team. [cite web|url=http://www.knighthawks.net/history.aspx|title=Rochester Knighthawks History|last=|first=|date=|publisher=Rochester Knighthawks website|accessdate=]

Mearns was inducted into the Canadian Lacrosse Hall of Fame in 2006 following a lengthy career in the Ontario Lacrosse Association, Major Series Lacrosse and Western Lacrosse Association Canadian professional box lacrosse leagues as a player. [cite web|url=http://bible-of-lacrosse.com/newstats/players.txt|title=Power's bible of Lacrosse Stats|last=|first=|date=|publisher=Power's Bible of Lacrosse|accessdate=]

He is currently the head coach of the Canisius men's lacrosse team and also was an assistant coach on the Canadian national team that won the gold medal at the 2006 World Lacrosse Championship. Mearns has won 58 games in his 10 years of coaching at Canisius, and led the Griffins to their first ever NCAA tournament bid in 2008 where they lost to Syracuse in the first round. [cite web|url=http://www.laxpower.com/laxnews/news.php?story=10987|title=Canisius Defeats VMI to Claim Its First MAAC Title|last=|first=|date=May 4, 2008|publisher=LaxPower.com|accessdate=]

tatistics

NLL

ee also

*NCAA Men's Division I Lacrosse Records

References

External links

* [http://www.canisius.edu/athletics/teams/player_coach.asp?id=407 Canisius U Web Site]
* [http://www.teamcanadamenslacrosse.com/contacts.cfm Team Canada Mens Lacrosse]
* [http://www.nll.com/careerstats.php NLL Career Stats page]
* [http://www.laxpower.com/laxnews/news.php?story=7626 Laxpower.com article on Canadian Hall of Fame Induction]