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2019 Men's Lacrosse Roster

45 Matthew Vangalen

45 Matthew Vangalen

  • Position:
    Attack
  • Height:
    6-0
  • Weight:
    200
  • Class:
    Senior
  • Hometown:
    Orangeville, Ont.
  • High School:
    Hill Academy (Furman)

Summary

Biography

Career Highlights
  • MAAC Offensive Player of the Year (2019)
  • First Team All-MAAC (2019)
  • 2x All-MAAC Second Team (2017, 2018)
  • MAAC Offensive Player Of The Week (4x)
  • USILA Player of the Week (3/5/19)
  • 3x Detroit Mercy Athletic Director's Honor Roll (2017, 2018, 2019)
  • 3x MAAC Academic Honor Roll (2017, 2018, 2019)
  • 2x MAAC All-Academic Team (2018, 2019)
  • USILA Scholar All-American (2019)
  • CoSIDA Academic All-District 5 Men’s At-Large (2019)
  • CoSIDA Academic All-American Third Team Men's At-Large (2019)
  • Senior CLASS Award Candidate (2019)

2019
  • First Titan to be selected MAAC Offensive Player of the Year
  • Earned two major academic honors in the USILA/Warrior and New Balance Division I Scholar All-American and Google Cloud Academic All-America Division I Men's At-Large by CoSIDA, the first Titan to ever earn that honor
  • Started all 15 games and broke his own school record with 55 points on another school record 36 assists to go with 19 goals
  • Second on the team with 88 shots and was third with a .625 shots on goal percentage
  • Led the MAAC and was 13th in the country with 2.40 assists per game and was also third in the conference and 51st in the nation with 3.67 points per game
  • In MAAC play, he led all peers with 26 points, 3.71 points per game, 20 assists and 2.86 assists per game
  • Had 10 games on the year with at least three points, including a nine-point effort on three goals and six assists along with a career-tying three ground balls at Bellarmine, where he scored the game-winning goal with less than 10 seconds left
  • Scored four goals and had an assist at Notre Dame
  • Recorded three goals and a helper at Marquette
  • Posted six points on a game-winning goal and five helpers at Marist
  • Had two goals and four assists against Canisius
  • Won the Titan Club Award, presented to a student-athlete who has achieved academic and athletic excellence
  • In his three years and 47 career games wearing the red, white and blue, he set the school record for assists with 77, was third in school history with 76 goals and second with 153 points

2018
  • Second Team All-MAAC
  • Started all 16 games and led the team with a school-record 51 points on a career-high 31 goals with 20 assists
  • Was seventh in the MAAC in points per game (3.19), assists per game (1.25) and goals per game (1.94), while tying for first with three game-winning goals and 10th in shots per game (5.88)
  • Scored a goal in 12 games on the year with eight multi-goal games and five hat tricks
  • Broke the school record with 11 points and tied another pair of school records with seven goals and four assists at Manhattan
  • His 11 points and seven goals were the most by any player in the MAAC on the year and tied for the fifth-most in the NCAA on the season
  • The seven goals were the most in the MAAC since 2016, while the 11 points are the most since Siena's Bryan Neufeld had 11 in two games in 2012
  • Started the year with two goals and three assists at No. 6/6 Notre Dame
  • Had a goal and three assists versus No. 4/6 Ohio State
  • Posted two goals and a helper against Marist
  • Found the back of the net three times at Canisius
  • Scored four goals with two assists against Siena
  • Had four goals and one helper against Cleveland State
  • Recorded three goals and two assists in the MAAC Championship semifinals at Monmouth
  • Finished his junior year fourth all-time in scoring with 98 points, fifth with 41 assists and sixth with 57 goals

2017
  • Selected All-MAAC Second Team
  • Started all 16 games in his first season as a Titan and led the team with 47 points – third in school history – 26 goals – seventh in school history – and 21 assists – tied for second in Titan record books
  • Ranked fourth in the MAAC with 1.31 assists per game, fifth with 2.94 points per game and sixth with 1.63 points per game
  • Third on the team with 71 shots and was second with 46 on goal for a .648 shots on goal percentage
  • Also picked up 17 ground balls
  • In his first ever game wearing the red, white and blue, he posted two goals and three assists at RV/#17 Ohio State, the most ever by a Titan in their debut and the most ever by a Titan in a season opener
  • Had a goal with three assists at Michigan
  • Recorded a hat trick with three goals against Marist
  • Tied a school record handing out four assists at Robert Morris
  • Tallied five points with three goals and two assists against Bellarmine as well as with four goals and a helper versus Manhattan
  • Found the back of the net three times against Canisius
  • Had two goals and two assists against Monmouth

Prior To Detroit Mercy
  • Spent his freshman year at Furman in 2016
  • Played in eight games - starting seven - and tallied five goals , four assists and seven ground balls
  • Had a goal and an assist in his collegiate debut against Ohio State and posted a season-high three points on two goals and a helper versus Lehigh
  • Prepped at the Hill Academy and lettered in lacrosse and hockey
  • Played lacrosse for head coach Brodie Merrill
  • Helped the program to a Team Ontario National Championship in lacrosse in 2010 and an Ontario hockey title in 2014
  • A member of the indoor Team Ontario lacrosse team
  • Played box lacrosse with the London Blue Devils (2011-12) and the Orangeville Northmen (2013-16)
  • Posted 25 goals and 20 assists in the OJBLL for London and 54 goals and 70 assists in the OJALL for Orangeville, including 21 goals and 49 points in 2016, helping the team win the league and advance to the Minto Cup
  • Was the Ontario Scholar and Science Award winner for graduating class

Personal
  • Son of Deb and Rob Vangalen
  • Has two brothers and a sister
  • An Accounting and Finance major
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Historical Player Information

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    2017Sophomore

    Attack
    6'0" 188 lbs
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    2018Junior

    Attack
    6'0" 200 lbs
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    2019Senior

    Attack
    6'0" 200 lbs
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