You see programs really growing and playing good lacrosse because of it,” says coach Greg Raymond.
“That first Zoom call with all the fifth-years going and the transfer portal going crazy. When the pandemic hit, Hobart didn’t have the options of some other schools, so key players like Eric Holden (Maryland), Justin Scott (Delaware) and this year Jason Knox (Ohio State) found roles elsewhere. In 2019 they went 11-5, losing by one in the NEC Tournament, and they started 4-1 in 2020. A 4-10 season that featured four-one goal losses meant taking it on the chin a bit, but Archer (19G, 13A) and Mott (5G, 8A) showed promise early. The 2018 season, Archer and Mott’s first year, is where they took their lumps. That’s translated into some pretty consistent success over the past few years despite personnel shifts. It’s a program where each man on the roster and staff is more comfortable talking about the process and the unit and the culture than about the individual. “Hustle in silence” could be embroidered on a Hobart crest. We embrace everything in our culture,” says Mott. Everything about our culture here at Hobart sums up how we were recruited. We like to hustle in silence and let our success speak for itself. A connection between then-Hobart assistant Peet Poillon and Mott’s high school coaches, Matt Bocklet and Brian Langtry, put him at Hobart and he hasn’t looked back. By the end of his high school season, he was dropped, leaving him program-less upon graduation. He almost committed to Richmond as a junior but ended up committing to Air Force the first day of his senior high school season. It was the age of early recruiting then, so he committed to Lafayette his sophomore year then decommitted. They believed in me early on, so I took that to heart.” “It picked up with a couple of offers here and there. It was the only team that gave me any recognition at first,” Archer says. Hobart was my first offer after my junior year. “I think I was the smallest guy on my field pretty much my whole career.
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