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McGill lacrosse grads Steven Pelliccone, Quentin Norris and Matthew Tse.
McGill lacrosse grads Steven Pelliccone, Quentin Norris and Matthew Tse

Men's Lacrosse Earl Zukerman

Five McGillians to play at world lacrosse championship in San Diego


MONTREAL – Five players with ties to McGill University are among the participants at the 2023 world men's lacrosse championship this week in San Diego, Calif. The quintet includes three graduates who played for the McGill Redbirds, an assistant coach with the team and an assistant professor at the University.
 
Steven Pelliccione (BA '23), who served as a co-captain at McGill in 2019, will play in goal for Italy, while Matthew Tse (BA '17), a former player-coach with the Redbirds will suit up for Hong Kong and Quentin Norris (BEng '20) is on the France roster. Also playing for France is Dr. Kaita Christophe, an assistant professor in the department of psychology at McGill. Rounding out the group is Stone Jacobs, a recent University of Vermont grad who is expected to join the McGill coaching staff this fall, will suit up for the Haudenosaunee Nationals.
 
Canada opens the 30-team tournament against  archrival United States on Wednesday (June 21) before an expected crowd of 20,000 at Snapdragon Stadium in San Diego. The contest is scheduled to be televised on TSN at 10 p.m. Eastern. Some 107 games are on tap and scheduled to be carried on ESPN's various media platforms, with some of Canada's games on TSN.

This year's event, the 14th edition of the men's world championship, features 30 teams vying for the sport's biggest prize – 20 teams earned their berth after the first-ever set of continental qualifiers over the past two years. 

The U.S. will host the event for the fourth time after previously hosting in 1982, 1988 and 2014. They will be looking for their second consecutive title and hoping to avenge a 2014 loss in the gold medal game on home soil in Denver to rivals Canada. The two teams battled to the wire in 2018 in Israel, when the U.S. scored the gold-medal-winning goal with one second remaining. 

The full 107 game-schedule can be found with field designations and start times in Pacific time here. The schedule broken down by each pool can be found here. 

San Diego State's newly constructed 32,000-seat Snapdragon Stadium will be the site of the Opening and Closing Ceremonies, opening game, semifinals, and medal games. Meanwhile, USD's Torero Stadium will host a majority of featured tournament games with a capacity of 6,000 spectators.  

All remaining contests will take place on SDSU's campus among four adjacent fields, anchored by SDSU Sports Deck, the 1,500-seat home of the university's soccer programs.   

The 30 teams are split into six pools of five, with the top five nations in the rankings Pool A. The top two A pool teams will advance directly to the quarter-finals, while the remaining three teams from the A pool will join the top nine teams from pools B to F (five first-place finishers and four second-place finishers) in the first round of the playoffs on June 27 to determine the remaining teams in the quarter-finals, which kick off on June 28. Full information on seeding, format and progression for pool play can be found here.  


SOURCE:
Earl Zukerman
Sports Information Officer
Athletics & Recreation
McGill University
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