Jim Moss

Jim Moss, born on March 3, 1977, in Toronto, Ontario, is a former professional lacrosse player who was named the National Lacrosse League's Defensive Player of the Year in 2003. He grew up in Brampton, Ontario, playing ice hockey from the age of seven and box lacrosse in the Ontario Minor Lacrosse Association, and later played junior hockey, including the London Knights of the Ontario Hockey League, where he captained the squad in the 1997-98 season, and university hockey at Western. He is unusual in having represented Team Canada in three sports, ice hockey, field lacrosse and indoor lacrosse, winning gold, silver and bronze medals in international competition, among them gold at the first World Indoor Lacrosse Championship. With the Brampton Excelsiors he won the Mann Cup in 2005, scoring the series winning goal against the Victoria Shamrocks. He was inducted into the Brampton Sports Hall of Fame and into the Canadian Lacrosse Hall of Fame as a member of Team Canada in 2007, and later coached young players and assisted with Stanford women's lacrosse.