Matt Rambo

Matt Rambo (July 25, 1994) is a professional lacrosse attackman for the Whipsnakes Lacrosse Club of the Premier Lacrosse League from Glenside, Pennsylvania. He played college lacrosse at Maryland.

Matt Rambo

Born	July 25, 1994 Glenside, Pennsylvania
Nationality	United States
Height	5 ft 10 in (1.78 m)
Weight	195[1] pounds (88 kg)
Shoots	Left
Position	Attack
NCAA team	Maryland (2017)
NLL draft	11th overall, 2018 Philadelphia Wings
NLL team	Philadelphia Wings
MLL draft	3rd overall, 2017 Charlotte Hounds
MLL teams	Charlotte Hounds
PLL team	Whipsnakes Lacrosse Club
Pro career	2017–
Career highlights
2017 Tewaaraton Award Winner, 2017 Enners Award 2x USILA All-American (2017, 2016) 2017 First Team All-America (USILA, Inside Lacrosse) 3x NCAA All-Tournament Team (2017, 2016, 2015) 2017 Big Ten Offensive Player of the Year 2017 First Team All-Big Ten 2016 Big Ten Tournament Most Valuable Player 2015 First Team All-Big Ten Maryland record for career goals, career points, career NCAA tournament points.[2] 2019 Jim Brown Award winner, 2019 PLL Championship MVP

College career

Rambo spent four years at the University of Maryland, where he only missed one start his entire career,[2] and reached the final four every year[3] and the championship game in his final three years.[4]

Freshman year

In Rambo's first game at Maryland, he scored four goals against the Mount St. Mary's Mountaineers. He ended the season with 30 goals and six assists.

Sophomore year

As a sophomore, Rambo played in the only game that he didn't not start in his entire college lacrosse career. He became the first Maryland player to score 40 goals in a season since Joe Walters in 2004. He also made First Team All Big 10.

Junior year

Rambo became the first player in Maryland history to have 40 goals and 30 assists in one season after ending the year with 43 goals and 32 assists. These 75 points are third all-time in Maryland history. He helped Maryland win the Big 10 tournament[5] and won Big Ten Tournament MVP and USILA All-American. Maryland lost in the 2016 NCAA Division I Men's Lacrosse Championship in a game that is considered a classic.[3][6]

Senior year

Rambo started the season with 19 points in the first three games, which is the most by a Maryland player in a three-game span since Mike Mollot.[2] In the final game of the season, on April 29, against Johns Hopkins, Rambo scored six points in the first 18 minutes, which broke the Maryland all-time points record.[7] Rambo helped lead Maryland to their first NCAA Men's Lacrosse Championship in 42 years.[8] Rambo also won the Tewaaraton Award, the highest award for a college lacrosse player. He was the first player in Maryland history to win the award.[9]

Professional career

MLL career

Rambo was drafted third overall in the 2017 Major League Lacrosse draft by the Charlotte Hounds. He had nine goals and six assists in six games for the Hounds that year.[10]

NLL career

Rambo was drafted in the fifth round of the NLL draft by the New England Black Wolves, but decided to sit out the season and travel around doing clinics and camps instead of playing in the NLL.[11] The next year, Rambo returned home to Pennsylvania for the start of his box lacrosse career after being selected 11th overall in the 2018 National Lacrosse League expansion draft to play for the Philadelphia Wings.[12]

Rambo scored 26 goals and had 30 assists in 17 games in his first season in the NLL.[13]

PLL career

In 2018, Matt Rambo was announced as a member of Whipsnakes Lacrosse Club in the inaugural season of Paul Rabil’s new Premier Lacrosse League.[1] He was selected to the league's first All Star game in 2019, where he was a captain.[14] Rambo led the league in points and assists during the 2019 regular season.[15] He was named league MVP for the 2019 season during the awards show on Thursday, September 19.[16]

On Saturday, September 21, Rambo scored both the game-tying goal with under a minute left and the sudden-victory game-winner in overtime in the PLL championship game against the Redwoods. He was named MVP of the game.[17]

Rambo made first team all-pro for the 2019 PLL season.

References

1. "Matt Rambo". Premier Lacrosse League. Retrieved July 13, 2019.
2. "Rambo, Matt". University of Maryland. Retrieved July 13, 2019.
3. Dan Aburn (May 2, 2017). "May Cover Story: Maryland's 1-2 Punch". Inside Lacrosse. Retrieved August 13, 2019.
4. Gary Lambrecht (May 19, 2017). "RAMBO'S RUN: MARYLAND'S HISTORIC ATTACKMAN AND HIS DOWN-TO-EARTH APPROACH". USLacrosse Magazine. Retrieved August 13, 2019.
5. "Matt Rambo, Maryland men's lacrosse claim first Big Ten tournament title". Washington Post. Retrieved July 14, 2019.
6. Dan Aburn (June 4, 2017). "A Champion's Legacy: On Matt Rambo, an All-Time Terp". Inside Lacrosse. Retrieved August 13, 2019.
7. Roman Stubbs (April 29, 2017). "Matt Rambo sets Maryland lacrosse scoring record in dominant win over Johns Hopkins". The Washington Post. Retrieved August 13, 2019.
8. "After breaking records, Matt Rambo wants to end Maryland lacrosse's 42-year title drought". The Diamondback. Retrieved July 14, 2019.
9. "Matt Rambo is the first Maryland men's lacrosse player to win the Tewaaraton Award". The Diamondback. Retrieved July 14, 2019.
10. "Matt Rambo". Charlotte Hounds. Retrieved July 14, 2019.
11. "WINGS FORWARD MATT RAMBO EXCITED TO BE PLAYING WITH HOMETOWN TEAM". National Lacrosse League. Retrieved July 14, 2019.
12. "Philadelphia Wings' Matt Rambo brings his lacrosse journey full circle". The Inquirer. Retrieved July 14, 2019.
13. "# 1 Matt Rambo". pointstreak.com. Retrieved August 13, 2019.
14. "2019 PLL All-Star Draft: Team Selections". Lacrosse Allstars. Retrieved July 14, 2019.
15. "PLL Stats". Premier Lacrosse League. Retrieved August 27, 2019.
16. Matt Dasilva (September 20, 2019). "RAMBO NAMED PLL MVP, GLICINI STEALS SHOW WITH REGAN TRIBUTE". USLacrosse Magazine.
17. Jack Goods (September 21, 2019). "RAMBO LEADS WHIPSNAKES TO DRAMATIC PLL CHAMPIONSHIP VICTORY". USLacrosse Magazine.