YORK, Pa. - With 10 NCAA Division III championships to its credit, it's not surprising that Salisbury University leads the Capital Athletic Conference's Silver Anniversary Men's Lacrosse Team with 13 honorees. Superstars like
Jason Coffman, Chris Turner, Chase Caruso, Kylor Berkman and Sam Bradman are all two-time CAC Player of the Year award winners and lead the conference's list of Silver Anniversary Award winners. Entering its 25th year of varsity competition, the CAC selected a Silver Anniversary Team in 19 championship sports, primarily based on season-ending conference awards as voted by the conference coaches. Each Silver Anniversary
Team will feature 25 former or current standouts. Men's and women's indoor track & field, which became a CAC championship sport in 2012, was combined with men's and women's outdoor track & field. The Silver Anniversary Golf Team has just eight members because the sport was added to the CAC championships list just seven years ago. The teams will be announced early in the regular-season for its respective sport. Each Silver Anniversary Team honoree will receive a commemorative gift from the conference, and many will be recognized by their institution/alma mater at some time during the academic year.
The University of Mary Washington, a charter member of the CAC, led the conference with 153 current and former student-athletes on the Silver Anniversary Teams, including 40 in men's and women's tennis combined. Salisbury University, which joined the CAC in the 1994-95 athletic season, was second with 122 Silver Anniversary Team honorees. CAC charter members York College of Pa. (60) and St. Mary's College of Md. (35) were next in line for most Silver
Anniversa The CAC was organized as a six-team affiliation in 1989 and began championship competition with the winter sports during the 1990-91 season. Membership changes in the last decade ultimately created a 10-team conference that has become one of the strongest in NCAA Division III.
CAC teams have won 18 national team championships, and dozens of other teams have finished in among the top
four in NCAA Division III competition. In 2013-14, the CAC advanced more than 25 teams to post-season competition. Four CAC athletic programs
finished among the Top 60 in the final Learfield Cup – the only conference in the Middle Atlantic Region to accomplish that feat. One team won a national championship (Salisbury University women's lacrosse) and three others played in the national championship game. Nineteen CAC teams won at least one game in NCAA Tournament competition and 10 advanced to at least the NCAA Sweet 16. In the last two years, CAC student-athletes have combined to win six individual national championships at NCAA
swimming or track & field competitions. The CAC student-athletes collected a record 11 Capital One Academic All-America awards in 2013-14 as well as an NCAA Post-Graduate Scholarship and the Josten's Award, recognizing a Division III women's basketball player for her achievements on the court, in the classroom and contributions to the community.
In the classroom, the CAC boasts 81 Capital One/CoSIDA Academic All-Americans, including one Academic All-American of the Year award winner, 12 NCAA Post-Graduate Scholarship winners, five NCAA Elite 89 award winners, two Honda year-end award winners and a Josten's Award winner in women's basketball. The CAC also features an annual
Academic Honor Roll that recently honored nearly 1,200 students for their academic achievements. Thousands of other student-athletes have received Player of the Year, All-America or All-Region recognition in their respective sports. (more)
Silver Anniversary Men's Lacrosse Team/Add 1
Coffman was the Player of the Year in 1995-96, Turner won the award in 1999-00, Caruso was honored by the
CAC coaches in 2006-07, Berkman, son of the long-time Sea Gulls coach Jim Berkman, was the 2008-09 award winner, and Bradman captured the top honor in 2010 and 2012.
Four Silver Anniversary honorees who were CAC Player of the Year award winners and three-time first-team all-
conference selections include Salisbury's Jake Bergey (POY 1997), Andy Murray (POY 2002), Jeff Bigas (POY 2005) and York College of Pa. senior Tyler Hutson (POY 2013). Stevenson University's
Jimmy Dailey, the 2011 CAC Athlete of the Year and 2007 CAC Rookie of the Year, is the only men's lacrosse player in CAC history to earn first-team all-conference honors four times. Hutson, the 2012 CAC Rookie of the Year, has the chance to match that mark for career awards this year as a senior at York. St. Mary's College of Maryland ranks second in the number of Men's Lacrosse Silver Anniversary Team honorees, led by 1993 Player of the Year
Greg Matthews and four others who were three-time first-team all-stars.
CAC Men's Lacrosse Silver Anniversary Team Honorees
Name Last Year of Competition Institution
Ryan Alexander 2010 St. Mary's College of Md.
Jake Bergey 1997 Salisbury University
Kylor Berkman 2009 Salisbury University
Jeff Bigas 2005 Salisbury University
Sam Bradman 2012 Salisbury University
Matt Cannone 2012 Salisbury University
Chase Caruso 2007 Salisbury University
Jason Coffman 1996 Salisbury University
Reeves Craig 2005 Goucher College
Jimmy Dailey 2011 Stevenson University
Luke Dick 2014 University of Mary Washington
Dave DiPaola 2001 Salisbury University
Andrew Gerner 2003 St. Mary's College of Md.
Chris Gress 1995 St. Mary's College of Md.
Tyler Hutson Active York College of Pa.
Steve Kazimer 2010 Stevenson University
Eric Martin 2004 Salisbury University
Greg Matthews 1994 St. Mary's College of Md.
Dave Mueller 2006 St. Mary's College of Md.
Andy Murray 2004 Salisbury University
Josh Papsan 2006 York College of Pa.
Andrew Toussaint 2002 St. Mary's College of Md.
Peter Troup 1999 Salisbury University
Chris Turner 2000 Salisbury University
Sean White 2005 Salisbury University