Kurdyla Named Captain for Team USA U-20 Team in World Lacrosse Championships

SPARKS, Md. — Rutgers males’s lacrosse rising junior Colin Kurdyla was named as a workforce captain for Team USA for the the 2025 U.S. Men’s U20 workforce that may start competitors within the World Lacrosse Men’s U20 Championship this weekend in South Korea. Kurdyla is one in all two workforce captains, becoming a member of Notre Dame’s Shawn Lyght. 

The U.S., which has received every of the earlier 9 World Lacrosse junior males’s discipline championships, begins play in opposition to rival Canada. The U.S. edged Canada 12-10 in the latest version of this championship in 2022, incomes a Gold Medal with Rutgers alumn Shane Knobloch on the squad. 

Team USA Schedule

Game 1: vs. Canada (Aug 16 – 11 am, native time / Aug 15 – 10 pm, Eastern time)

Game 2: vs. Haudenosaunee (Aug 17 – 11 am, native time / Aug 16 – 10 pm, Eastern time)

Game 3: vs. Australia (Aug 19 – 4 pm, native time / 3 am, Eastern time)

Quarterfinals: August 21, TBA

Semifinals: August 22, TBA

Medal video games: August 24, TBA

All video games from the match will probably be streamed reside on World Lacrosse TV with packages operating $35 for your entire occasion.

“This means the world to me, to be able to be named captain and represent my country,” Kurdyla stated. “I’m really honored, excited and fired up to get after it out here in Korea.”

Kurdyla final season earned his first All-American recognition and was named a Second Team All-Big Ten and Big Ten All-Tournament workforce choice. The sophomore from Bridgewater, N.J., who was additionally a Big Ten Preseason Player to Watch, led the workforce with 27 objectives and 40 assists, whereas additionally posting 13 assists, second on the workforce. He was seventh within the Big Ten in objectives per recreation and ninth in factors per recreation.

Kurdyla additionally posted 9 objectives and 13 factors within the 5 Big Ten common season convention video games, fifth within the league, and added six extra objectives within the convention match, giving him 15 objectives throughout the final seven video games of the yr, and 21 objectives within the ultimate 9 contests.

A winner of the Werblin Award and an Academic All-Big Ten choice, Kurdyla has performed in 30 video games throughout his first two seasons as a Scarlet Knight. In that point, he has scored 47 objectives and added 23 assists for 70 factors.

About USA Lacrosse

USA Lacrosse, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit company, is a Recognized Sports Organization of the U.S. Olympic & Paralympic Committee. As the governing physique of males’s and ladies’s lacrosse within the United States, USA Lacrosse fuels the expansion, enriches the expertise, and fields one of the best National Teams, supporting greater than 425,000 members throughout the nation.