Brodie Merrill
Born	November 5, 1981 (1981-11-05) (age 28), Orangeville, Ontario, CA
Position	Defense
Height Weight	6 ft 4 in (1.93 m) 205 pounds (93 kg)
MSL Team	Brampton Excelsiors
NLL Team F. Teams	Edmonton Rush Portland LumberJax
MLL Team F. Teams	Toronto Nationals Rochester Rattlers Baltimore Bayhawks
Nationality	Canada
Pro Career	2005 – present
Shoots	Left
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Brodie Merrill (born November 5, 1981 in Orangeville, Ontario) is a Canadian lacrosse player. He currently plays in the National Lacrosse League for the Edmonton Rush and Major League Lacrosse for the Toronto Nationals.

Contents 1 High School career 2 College career 3 Professional career 3.1 NLL 3.2 MLL 4 Canadian Box career 4.1 Junior 4.2 Senior 5 International career 6 Personal 7 Statistics 7.1 National Lacrosse League 7.2 Major League Lacrosse 7.3 Canadian Lacrosse Association 8 Awards 9 References

[edit] High School career

Merrill attended the Salisbury School in Connecticut. While attending Salisbury, he was a standout lacrosse player, and was named the New England Defensive Player of the Year, was selected to the All-New England team, and was selected as a First Team High School All-American.

[edit] College career

Merrill attended Georgetown University from 2002 to 2005. During his final two years, he was a First-team All-American, and won the Schmeisser Award in his senior year for defensive player of the year.

[edit] Professional career

[edit] NLL

Merrill was also the first player taken overall in the 2005 National Lacrosse League Draft by the Portland LumberJax, and in 2006 was named both the NLL's Rookie of the Year and Defensive Player of the Year. During the 2009 NLL season, he was named a starter to the All-Star Game.^[1]
When the LumberJax left Portland at the end of the 2009 season, the league held a dispersal draft. Merrill was selected with the first overall pick in the draft by the Edmonton Rush.

[edit] MLL

He was the MLL Rookie of the Year in 2005 as a member of the Baltimore Bayhawks. From 2006 to 2007, he played for the Rochester Rattlers. For four consecutive years he was awarded the Major League Lacrosse Defensive Player of the Year Awards.^[2] He then helped the Toronto Nationals win their first MLL championship in their inaugural season, and won the defensive player of the year award for a record fourth consecutive year.

[edit] Canadian Box career

[edit] Junior

Merrill played his junior lacrosse with the Orangeville Northmen of the OLA Junior A Lacrosse League. In 2000, Merrill lad the Northmen to a league championship. In 2001, Merrill was awarded the "John McCauley Award" for Best Defesive Player, and shared the "B.W. Evans Award" for Top Graduating Player with Dan Bowman the following year.^[3]

[edit] Senior

Merrill began his senior career with the Coquitlam Adanacs of the Western Lacrosse Association. He currently plays with the Brampton Excelsiors of Major Series Lacrosse, and has won two consecutive Mann Cup championships in 2008 and 2009.

[edit] International career

In 2006, he helped the Canadian national lacrosse team to an historic win at the World Lacrosse Championship in London, Ontario. He had an outstanding tournament, being named Best Defender and earning All-World honours.

[edit] Personal

Brodie's brother Patrick is a member of the Orlando Titans. Both Brodie and Patrick are members of the Brampton Excelsiors in the Major Series Lacrosse as well as the Toronto Nationals of Major League Lacrosse. He was named by Inside Lacrosse as "The Best Player in the World."-Inside Lacrosse.^[4]

[edit] Statistics

[edit] National Lacrosse League

			Regular Season							Playoffs
Season	Team		GP	G	A	Pts	LB	PIM		GP	G	A	Pts	LB	PIM
2006	Portland		16	17	32	49	214	33		1	0	4	4	15	0
2007	Portland		15	4	19	23	196	49		--	--	--	--	--	--
2008	Portland		16	17	21	38	211	53		3	4	5	9	43	0
2009	Portland		16	14	33	47	216	38		1	2	5	7	14	2
NLL Totals			63	52	105	157	837	173		5	6	14	20	72	2

[edit] Major League Lacrosse

			Regular Season								Playoffs
Season	Team		GP	G	2ptG	A	Pts	LB	PIM		GP	G	2ptG	A	Pts	LB	PIM
2005	Baltimore		11	3	0	1	4	52	1		2	1	0	0	1	0	0
2006	Rochester		11	6	1	5	12	95	9		0	0	0	0	0	0	0
2007	Rochester		12	5	0	9	14	101	4		1	0	0	2	2	9	0
2008	Rochester		10	6	0	12	18	75	4.5		2	1	0	1	2	10	0
2009	Toronto		12	8	0	12	20	69	5.5		2	1	0	1	2	14	0.5
MLL Totals			56	28	1	39	68	392	24		7	3	0	4	7	33	0.5

[edit] Canadian Lacrosse Association

				Regular Season						Playoffs
Season	Team	League		GP	G	A	Pts	PIM		GP	G	A	Pts	PIM
1997	Orangeville Northmen	OLA Jr.A		1	0	0	0	0		0	0	0	0	0
1998	Orangeville Northmen	OLA Jr.A		20	8	9	17	44		9	1	2	3	8
1999	Orangeville Northmen	OLA Jr.A		15	13	20	33	20		10	6	25	31	10
2000	Orangeville Northmen	OLA Jr.A		14	21	24	45	32		14	13	30	43	19
Minto Cup	Orangeville Northmen	CLA		--	--	--	--	--		6	3	11	14	4
2001	Orangeville Northmen	OLA Jr.A		14	20	33	53	49		5	7	7	14	15
2002	Orangeville Northmen	OLA Jr.A		14	16	15	31	30		11	8	14	22	31
2003	Coquitlam Adanacs	WLA		14	6	12	18	41		10	5	7	12	25
2004	Brampton Excelsiors	MSL		6	2	7	9	21		14	8	9	17	56
2006	Brampton Excelsiors	MSL		7	7	12	19	6		11	7	14	21	27
2007	Brampton Excelsiors	MSL		4	4	1	5	4		9	12	17	29	12
2008	Brampton Excelsiors	MSL		4	0	9	9	10		9	4	10	14	21
Mann Cup	Brampton Excelsiors	CLA		--	--	--	--	--		4	2	3	5	13
2009	Brampton Excelsiors	MSL		7	7	6	13	12		9	3	5	8	31
Mann Cup	Brampton Excelsiors	CLA		--	--	--	--	--		7	2	2	4	14
Junior A Totals				78	78	86	164	175		49	35	78	113	83
Minto Cup Totals				--	--	--	--	--		6	3	11	14	4
Senior A Totals				42	26	47	73	94		62	39	62	101	172
Mann Cup Totals				--	--	--	--	--		11	4	5	9	27

[edit] Awards

Preceded by Ryan Boyle	MLL Rookie of the Year 2005	Succeeded by Matt Ward
Preceded by Ryan Boyle	NLL Rookie of the Year 2006	Succeeded by Ryan Benesch
Preceded by Andrew Turner	NLL Defensive Player of the Year 2006	Succeeded by Ryan Cousins
Preceded by Nicky Polanco	MLL Defensive Player of the Year 2006 & 2007 & 2008 & 2009	Succeeded by Incumbent
Preceded by Mark Steenhuis	NLL Transition Player of the Year 2009	Succeeded by incumbent

[edit] References

Persondata
NAME	Merrill, Brodie
ALTERNATIVE NAMES
SHORT DESCRIPTION	Lacrosse player
DATE OF BIRTH	November 5, 1981
PLACE OF BIRTH	Orangeville, Ontario
DATE OF DEATH
PLACE OF DEATH