Matthew Bennett (lacrosse)

Matthew Bennett is a professional lacrosse player born on January 25, 1993, who has played in the National Lacrosse League and in Major Series Lacrosse with the Brampton Excelsiors. He is from Brampton, Ontario, and began his junior career in 2010 with the Junior B Mimico Mountaineers before spending four seasons, from 2011, with the Junior A Brampton Excelsiors; he also appeared for the Oshawa Machine and the Brampton Inferno of the Canadian Lacrosse League. The Buffalo Bandits drafted him in the second round, fourteenth overall, of the 2014 NLL Entry Draft, and the senior Brampton Excelsiors took him second overall in the 2015 MSL draft. He later played for the Philadelphia Wings and the Rochester Knighthawks. An ACL tear in January 2018 kept him out of most of the 2018 NLL season and all of the 2018 MSL season.