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Frank Urso

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Frank Urso, born in 1954, is a former American lacrosse player and current high school lacrosse coach, best known as a midfielder at the University of Maryland from 1973 to 1976. In those four years Maryland won national championships in 1973 and 1975 and reached the final in 1974 and 1976. Urso scored the overtime winner in the 1973 title game, a 10 to 9 win, and five goals in the 1975 final against Navy. He earned first team All-American honors all four years and ranks first in NCAA Division I tournament scoring with 32 goals. He played midfield at the inaugural World Lacrosse Championship in 1974, won the McLaughlin Award as the top midfielder in 1974 and 1976, was named USILA player of the year in 1975, entered the National Lacrosse Hall of Fame in 1981 and received the Tewaaraton Legend Award in 2016.

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    is a former American lacrosse player
  • Competed In: NCAA Division I Men's Lacrosse Championship, College career
    Urso led the Terrapins to the 1973 and 1975 NCAA Men's Lacrosse Championships
  • Competed In: World Lacrosse Men's Championship, College career, 1974
    Urso was a midfield on the inaugural World Lacrosse Championship in 1974
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