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2011 pride Profiles
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Steve
Serling
Midfield
6-0, 180, Graduate-Student
Rockville Centre, NY/South Side
High School Coach: Joe Baccerela
First season on the Pride Lacrosse team…Comes
to Hofstra following graduation from Lafayette
College in Easton, Pennsylvania…At Lafayette College: Tallied 72 goals
and 24 assists in three seasons at Lafayette…Graduated with a Economics
and Business degree… 2010: USILA All-American honorable mention…
USILA Scholar-All-America Team selection…Patriot League Offensive
Player of the Year…All-Patriot League first team selection…Played and
started in all 14 games for the Leopards…Tallied 37 goals and 12 assists
for a team-high 49 points…Ranked first in the Patriot League and ninth in
the nation in goals (2.64) and second in the Patriot League and 18th in the
nation in points…Tallied five goals and three assists in the season opener
against Fairfield…Scored five goals against Holy Cross…Scored three
man-up goals and was credited with a game-winning goal…Picked up 14
ground balls and took 101 shots…2009: Did not play due to injury…2008:
Played and started in all 13 games…Tallied 23 goals and nine assists for a
team-high 32 points…Scored four goals against Holy Cross and three goals
against Wagner…Picked up 15 ground balls…2007: Played in 13 games
and started 11 as a freshman…Second on the team with 12 goals including
a season-high three against Drexel…Dished out three assists…Picked up
nine ground balls…High School: Was a captain and three-year letterwinner
in lacrosse at South Side High School in Rockville Centre, New York…
Named to All-Nassau County teams as a senior in lacrosse and soccer…
Captained the soccer team as well…National Honor Society member…
Personal: Born May 9, 1988…Has two brothers and one sister…Pursuing
a master’s degree in finance at Hofstra.
Year GP Sht. G A Pts. GB
2007* 13 39 12 3 15 9
2008* 13 74 23 9 32 15
2010* 14 101 37 12 49 14
Career 40 214 72 24 96 38
* - at Lafayette
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Stephen
Bentz
Attack
6-0, 215, Senior
Massapequa, NY/Massapequa
High School Coach: Steve Mollot
Fourth season on the Hofstra Lacrosse roster…
Team Captain…2010: Started all 14 games as a
junior…Was third on the team in scoring with 29
goals and 12 assists for 41 points…Posted nine multi-goal games including
a career-high five goals against Sacred Heart and Towson…Equaled his
best single game points total of five with three goals and two assists against
Brown…Tallied two goals and two assists against Princeton, Army and
Delaware…Posted two goals against Drexel, UMass and Johns Hopkins…
Ranked sixth in the CAA in goals (2.07) and seventh in points (2.93)…
Netted four man-up goals including two against UMass…Picked up 26
grounds balls including six versus Towson…2009: Played in 14 games as a
sophomore…Seventh on the team in goals with six and added one assist for
seven points…Scored goals against Johns Hopkins, Sacred Heart, Drexel,
North Carolina, Stony Brook and Cornell…Assisted on a goal at Army…
Five of his six goals were man-up…Picked up eight ground balls including
two against Robert Morris…
Took 10 shots of which eight
were on goal…2008: Played in
all 16 games as a freshman…
Recorded one goal and two
assists and took seven shots…
Tallied a goal and an assist
against Robert Morris…
Picked up an assist against
Sacred Heart…Posted four
ground balls on the season…
Tallied one ground ball against
Massachusetts, Towson, Sacred
Heart and Robert Morris…High School:
Played four years of lacrosse, three years
of football and two years of basketball at
Massapequa High School in Massapequa
Park, New York…Helped the Chiefs to two
Nassau County championships in lacrosse…
Member of two conference championship teams
in basketball…All-Nassau County selection in both
lacrosse and football as a senior…Two-time honorable mention
all-county lacrosse pick…New York State Scholar-Athlete in football
and basketball…Team captain in all three sports as a senior…Recorded
31 goals, 31 assists and 87 ground balls as a senior…Most Valuable
Player of the Exceptional Senior All-Star game…Won two gold medals
as a member of the Long Island Empire State Games lacrosse team…
Received Massapequa’s Superintendent’s Award and the Margaret
Callahan Leadership Award…Personal: Born January 20, 1989…Has
one sister and one brother…Also recruited by Loyola, Johns Hopkins and
Massachusetts…Hobbies include fishing and crabbing…Serves as a youth
lacrosse coach…History major.
Year GP Sht. G A Pts. GB
2008 16 7 1 2 3 4
2009 14 10 6 1 7 8
2010 14 61 29 12 41 26
Career 44 78 36 15 51 38
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Jay
Card
Attack
5-10, 195, Senior
Caledon, Ontario, Canada/
The Hill Academy
High School Coach: Brodie Merrill
Fourth year on the Hofstra Lacrosse roster…
Team Captain…Enters 2011 with a 28-game point scoring streak…2011
Preseason All-CAA selection by Face-Off Yearbook…2010: USILA All-
American honorable mention...All-CAA first team selection…Played
and started in 13 games…Tied for the team lead in points with 53 and led
the Pride in assists with 22…Ranked seventh in Division I in points per
game (4.08), 13th in assists (1.69) and 19th in goals (2.38)…Tallied 31
goals including nine multi-goal games…Posted a career-high with eight
points on five goals and three assists against Army…Notched four goals
against Maryland, Jacksonville and Sacred Heart…Recorded three goals
and three assists against Delaware at the opening of the New Meadowlands
Stadium…Posted seven multi-assist games including four against Johns
Hopkins and three versus Sacred Heart, Army, Manhattan, Delaware…
Netted five man-up goals on the season including two against both Army
and Maryland…Posted one game-winning goal…Tallied seven points
against Sacred Heart and six points against Johns Hopkins and Delaware…
Picked up 31 ground balls including five against Johns Hopkins and four
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