They're smart and they work together. The defense is going to be real solid this year.

We graduated some very solid lacrosse players. But we have great guys [returning].

He's got a lot of talent and has been playing [lacrosse] four or five years. He's got to play big for us, and he does. He has a ton of heart. He moves well in the cage and he's not afraid of anything.

He brings a lot of toughness to the midfield and he's pretty skilled for a guy who has been playing for about a year.

That says a lot for the defense.

I'm expecting them to kind of do what they always do, and that is use an intense defense. It's just a very aggressive man-to-man defense. It's closely guarded, and they don't back off you. They play extremely hard for all 32 minutes.