Announcement
Denver Announces 2012 Recruits
Denver Announces 2012 Recruits
December 14th, 2010
Three Top Players in West Head List
From Press Releases and Staff Reports
DENVER – Half of Denver’s 2012 recruiting class is from the West and three are ranked among the top 25 players in the West. The Pioneers announced their latest recruiting class today.
No. 1 in the West Tyler Ekeroth (middie, Rancho Bernardo, Calif.), No. 8 Michael Riis (defenseman, La Costa Canyon, Calif.) and No. 13 Wesley Berg (middie, Canadian, B.C.) head the class.
Ekeroth verbally committed to Denver in January 2011, ending plenty of speculation about where the top player in the West would play collegiate lacrosse. At the time, he said he also considered Division I programs at Cornell, Maryland and Syracuse.
Riis, who plays for defending CIF-San Diego Section champion La Costa Canyon, is a long-stick middie who led LCC in scoring in 2010. Berg led his team to the No. 1 ranking in Canada. The team was also a 2010 national silver medalist and provincial champs in 2008.
Middie Sander Aplet (Wheat Ridge, Colo.), defenseman Carson Cannon (Stillwater, Minn.) and goalie Ryan LaPlante (Fort Collins, Colo.) also signed national letters of intent.
Applet was an All-American and team MVP his junior season, Cannon was an honorable mention All-American his junior year and team captain for 2011, and LaPlante was an honorable mention All-American his junior year and team captain for 2011.
“This group of young men, our second as a coaching staff, represents exactly what we are looking for when we set out to construct a recruiting class,” said head coach Bill Tierney. “They are, first and foremost, fabulous young men from great families who will devote their efforts to having a positive impact on our university.”
The Pioneers other six recruits are from five states. Attackman Sean Canniazzaro (Cazenovia) and middie Yonjo Kang (Bronxville) are from New York; defenseman Nick Gorman (Olney) is from Maryland; attackman Garret Holst (Fishers) is from Indiana; attackman Connor Pagnani (Nashville) is from Tennessee, and attackman Aiden Scott (Ridgefield) is from Connecticut.
