SPARKS, Md. — A trio of Cornell men's lacrosse alumni – Mitch Belisle '07, Connor Buczek '15, and Rob Pannell '13 – have been named by US Lacrosse among the 59 players selected to try out for the 2018 U. S. Men's National Team. The first round of tryouts will be held July 9-11 at the new U.S. national teams training center at US Lacrosse headquarters in Sparks, Md.
 
Cornell's three alumni selections make up nearly half the representatives from the Ivy League (7) and are the most by any school in the conference, ahead of Princeton with two selections.

Belisle and Pannell are vying for their second US national team selection, having won a silver medal with Team USA at the 2014 FIL World Championship in Denver.
 
Buczek will attempt to earn his first senior team selection after helping the US to a gold medal at the 2012 FIL U19 World Championship in Finland.
 
Following the initial round of tryouts, U.S. head coach John Danowski and his staff will follow up with additional tryouts and training weekends at US Lacrosse on the weekends of Sept. 1-4 and Oct. 6-9.
 
The FIL recently announced that the 2018 world championship was moving from England to Israel with exact dates and location to be announced later this month.
 
Since 1967, the U.S. has won gold or silver medal at every men's international world championship in field lacrosse. The U.S. won gold in 1967, 1974, 1982, 1986, 1990, 1994, 1998, 2002 and 2010. The U.S. finished as the runner-up to Canada in 1978, 2006 and 2014.
 
For more information on the U.S. men's national team, visit uslacrosse.org/teamusa. Follow the team on social media @uslacrosse and use #USAMLAX on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Snapchat and and YouTube.
 
The 59-player tryout pool is listed below by position:
 
Attack
Name – MLL Team – College
Michael Bocklet – Denver – Fairfield '07
Ryan Brown – Charlotte – Johns Hopkins '16
Ned Crotty – Rochester – Duke '10
Matt Danowski – Chesapeake – Duke '07
Matt Gibson – New York – Yale '12
Marcus Holman – Ohio – North Carolina '13
Matt Kavanagh – Denver – Notre Dame '16
Will Manny – Boston – Massachusetts '13
Kieran McArdle – Florida – St. John's '14
Rob Pannell – New York – Cornell '13
Joey Sankey – Charlotte – North Carolina '15
Jordan Wolf – Rochester – Duke '14
 
Midfield
Name – MLL Team – College
Matt Abbott – Chesapeake – Syracuse '09
Brent Adams – Denver – Fairfield '12
Connor Buczek – Florida – Cornell '15
Mike Chanenchuk – Charlotte – Maryland '14
John Haus – Charlotte – Maryland '13
Myles Jones – Chesapeake – Duke '16
JoJo Marasco – Rochester – Syracuse '13
Sergio Perkovic – None – Notre Dame '17
Paul Rabil – New York – Johns Hopkins '08
Tom Schreiber – Ohio – Princeton '14
Jeremy Sieverts – Denver – Maryland '09
Drew Snider – Denver – Maryland '12
Joe Walters – New York – Maryland '06
 
Shortstick Defensive Midfield
Name – MLL Team – College
Jake Bernhardt – Ohio – Maryland '13
Steven DeNapoli – New York – Hofstra '11
Greg Downing – Denver – Fairfield '07
Will Haus – Charlotte – Duke '15
Jacob Richard – New York – Marquette '18
Kevin Unterstein – New York – Hofstra '08
 
Longstick Defensive Midfield
Name – MLL Team – College
Liam Byrnes – Florida – Marquette '15
C.J. Costabile – Chesapeake – Duke '12
Michael Ehrhardt – Charlotte – Maryland '14
Kyle Hartzell – New York – Salisbury '08
Scott Ratliff – Atlanta – Loyola '13
Joel White – Rochester – Syracuse '13
 
Defense
Name – MLL Team – College
Mitch Belisle – Boston – Cornell '07
Jesse Bernhard –Chesapeake – Maryland '13
Matt Bocklet – Denver – Johns Hopkins '08
Tucker Durkin – Florida – Johns Hopkins '13
Michael Evans – Chesapeake – Johns Hopkins '09
Joe Fletcher – New York – Loyola '14
B.J. Grill – Denver – Marquette '16
Matt Landis – Boston – Notre Dame '16
Michael Manley – Rochester – Duke '12
Jackson Place – Ohio – Bucknell '14
Michael Simon – Denver – Stevenson '09
 
Goalie
Name – MLL Team – College
Drew Adams – New York – Penn State '09
Tyler Fiorito – Boston – Princeton '12
John Galloway – Rochester – Syracuse '11
Jack Kelly – Denver – Brown '16
Brian Phipps – Chesapeake – Maryland '10
 
Faceoff Specialist
Name – MLL Team – College
Trevor Baptiste – None – Denver '18
Brendan Fowler – Charlotte – Duke '14
Greg Gurenlian – New York – Penn State '06
Tom Kelly – Denver – Virginia
Joe Nardella – Boston – Rutgers '15
Greg Puskuldjian – Ohio – Adelphi '14