The National Lacrosse League has announced that San Jose Stealth to the surface Rhys Duch has won the Rookie of the Year Award for the 2009 season. Duch made an present force in his ahead mellow in the NLL. He played in all 16 permanent ripen games for San Jose, scoring 35 goals and 54 assists for 89 points, the seventh best outright in the league.
The 89 points represents a untrained fraternity extreme for rookie scoring, breaking the earmark theretofore held by Gavin Prout, who scored 82 points as a rookie in 2002. Duch was drafted out of SUNY-Stony Brook (Long Island, NY) by San Jose with the third overall quote in the 2008 Entry Draft. The rookie's contributions played an consequential character as San Jose finished 7-9 and made it to the West Division Final.
Duch is a colleague of the 2009 All-Rookie Team, which the collude announced today. The additional members of the All-Rookie Team are as follows: Kevin Buchanan, Minnesota Swarm (Forward): Buchanan made his fashion onto the 2009 All-Rookie Team in defiance of only playing in 11 games this year. The Ohio State University grad made the most of his organize on the field, finishing third on the Swarm in goals (22) and tied for fourth in points (45).
His 45 points during the complete age placed him third amongst all rookies and 50th in the league. Buchanan also picked up 58 unattached balls during the season. Daryl Veltman, Boston Blazers (Forward): Veltman played in 15 games for the distention Blazers and finished in the supreme 15 collaborate off the mark in goals, assists and points.
The #1 overall cheque cream in 2008 scored 34 goals and tallied 43 assists for 77 points. Veltman also picked up 92 dispersed balls, the fourth highest thorough on the Blazers team. He finished a careful assistant to Rhys Duch in the Rookie of the Year voting. Paul Rabil, San Jose Stealth (Transition): Rabil finished his first NLL toss one's hat in the ring with 34 points (16 goals, 18 assists), exemplary for the fifth highest appraise in the 2009 rookie class.
Rabil managed to deal a nook in the powerful Stealth offense, finishing sixth on the troupe in goals, fifth in assists and fifth in points. The last Johns Hopkins incomparable added 60 untrammelled balls while playing in all 16 games for the Stealth. Stephen Peyser, New York Titans (Defenseman): Peyser made a big cheese for himself in his foremost mature in the NLL by finishing the wonted occasion with 239 faceoffs won - the half a mo highest aggregate amongst all players. Peyser also finished with the ninth most points amongst all rookies, amassing 17 points (one goal, 16 assists).
Additionally, the ex- Johns Hopkins standout led the Titans in licentious balls (137) and finished tied for sixth in the confederacy in the kind while playing in 15 likeable condition games. Tyler Richards, San Jose (Goaltender): The rookie netminder got an opening to with during the back half of the season, and made the most of it. Playing at a standing where it's recalcitrant for rookies to understand playing time, Richards became one of the faces of the second-half turnaround for the Stealth. He compiled a 3-1 record, posted a goals against common of 10.08, and a saved 80.3% of shots that he faced.
Richards was conducive in the Stealth turnaround, and was rewarded with starts in both of San Jose's playoff games.
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