Tyler Pace (lacrosse)

Tyler Pace is a Canadian professional box lacrosse forward who plays for the Calgary Roughnecks of the National Lacrosse League. Born on April 5, 1995, he took up lacrosse at age three under the influence of his mother Sandy and his Italian grandfather, and played junior lacrosse for the Coquitlam Adanacs, where he won a Minto Cup in 2016 under future Roughnecks head coach Curt Malawsky. He attended Blue Ridge School in Dyke, Virginia, and then the University of Denver, where he played four seasons for the Pioneers, won an NCAA championship in 2015 as a sophomore, was named a Second Team All-American by USILA and First Team All Big East in 2016, and finished fifth on the program's all-time list with 155 points. Calgary selected him ninth overall in the 2017 NLL Entry Draft; he began as a defenceman because the team had too many forwards before working back to forward. Away from the floor he founded and leads Pro Caliber Lacrosse, a development and travel program in British Columbia, and serves as a player representative for the NLL Players Association.