June 5, 2004

CHAPEL HILL, N.C. - The North Carolina men's lacrosse program honored its 2004 NCAA quarterfinalist team at the annual awards picinic Saturday at the home of Tar Heel head coach John Haus. Senior defenseman Ronnie Staines, senior midfielder Kevin Frew and junior attackman Jed Prossner all shared the Turnbull Trophy as the Most Valuable Players on the 2004 squad.

Staines and Prossner were both named as first-team All-Americas earlier this week at their positions. Prossner led the Tar Heels in scoring for the third straight year with 41 goals and 15 assists. He was the first attackman to be named first-team All-America at Carolina since 1991 when Dennis Goldstein was a first-team selection. Staines was the first Tar Heel defenseman named first-team All-America since Alex Martin and Greg Paradine were so named in 1993. Frew led the nation in ground balls this season with 143 and he broke UNC records for faceoffs won in a career and in a season with 446 and 219, respectively. His 9.53 ground balls per game this season was also a school record.

The Danny Fox Memorial Award given for distinguished service to the Tar Heel lacrosse program was shared by the nine members of the senior class. These nine individuals led Carolina to its first NCAA Tournament appearance since 1998 and its first NCAA Tournament win since 1993. The group includes attackman Andrew Lucas, midfielder Johnny Seivold, defenseman Ronnie Staines, defenseman Brad Coker, midfielder Dan Stringer, midfielder Dave Duffy, midfielder Kevin Frew, defenseman Matt Pessagno and midfielder Phil Pennington.

Stringer and Coker were named as the co-recipients of the Dan Andrews Sportsmanship Award given to those players on the team who never relinquish the desire to play and motivate others to achieve.

Frew ran away with the Holmes Harden Memorial Award given to the player with the most ground balls. Frew had 143 this year, 96 more than the second place player on the team in that category.

The Needham Unsung Hero Award was won by junior attackman Mike McCall. The Yorktown, N.Y. native was the second leading scorer on the Tar Heel team for the third successive year as he tallied 29 goals this year and had seven assists for 36 points.

The Kevin Reichardt Memorial Award as the team's most improved athlete was won by senior midfielder Dave Duffy. The Garden City, N.Y. native won a spot on UNC's second midfield unit as a senior while also playing short stick midfield on Carolina's man down unit. He had five goals and one assist in 2004.

The Jay Gallagher Award as the outstanding freshman player was given to midfielder Tom Sciolla. Sciolla ran on UNC's third midfield unit in 2004.