Randy Mearns

Randy Mearns
— Lacrosse player —
Born May 28, 1969
St. Catharines, Ontario
Position Forward
Height 5 ft 10 in (1.78 m)
Weight 170 pounds (77 kg)
team Canisius College
Former NLL teams Buffalo Bandits
Rochester Knighthawks
Coaching career Canisius College, 1999-present
Nationality Canada
Pro career 1993–2002
Canadian Lacrosse Hall of Fame, 2006

Randy Mearns (born May 28, 1969 in St. Catharines, Ontario) is a former lacrosse player.

Mearns, along with the entire 2006 Canadian National lacrosse team, was inducted into the Canadian Lacrosse Hall of Fame, following a lengthy career in the Ontario Lacrosse Association, Major Series Lacrosse and Western Lacrosse Association Canadian professional box lacrosse leagues as a player.[1]

Canadian Box Career

Mearns played for the St. Catharines Athletics for 5 years. In 1990, Mearns led the team to their first Minto Cup championship since 1950, and was awarded the "Jim McConaghy Memorial Cup" for Minto Cup M.V.P. He was later given the "B.W. Evans Award" for Top Graduating Player.[2] Mearns ranked 36th all time in Canadian Junior A lacrosse assists (regular season and playoffs combined) with 348.[3]

With the Brampton Excelsiors, Mearns won Mann Cup championships in 1992 and 1993, and also won three with the Six Nation Chiefs (’94, ‘95’ ’96).

College career

Mearns was an All-American NCAA lacrosse player at Canisius College from 1990 to 1992 who is currently 20th all-time in Division I career points-per-game (PPG), having scored 95 goals and 95 assists for 190 career points in 39 games. He is also the all-time leading scorer at Canisius.[4]

Professional career

Mearns played professionally for the NLL's Buffalo Bandits and Rochester Knighthawks, acting as captain of the 1997 NLL champion Knighthawk team. Rochester also played in the 1995, 1999 and 2000 finals.[5] Since his retirement from professional lacrosse, he has served as the color commentator for the Bandits' radio broadcasts alongside play-by-play man John Gurtler.

Coaching career

He is currently the head coach of the Canisius men's lacrosse team and also was an assistant coach on the Canadian national team that won the gold medal at the 2006 World Lacrosse Championship. Mearns has won 58 games in his 10 years of coaching at Canisius, and led the Griffins to their first ever NCAA tournament bid in 2008 where they lost to Syracuse in the first round, and second in 2012 where they lost against Loyola in the first round.[6] Mearns has provided development for his players towards the professional ranks, including Mark Miyashita who graduated from Canisius in 2003 and was the first overall selection in the 2003 National Lacrosse League draft. In a preseason coaches poll, Canisius was picked to repeat in 2009 as MAAC champions. However after a rough start to the season where they lost six straight including 3 one-goal losses, the Griffs ended 2009 on a 4 and 3 run.

Mearns was on the Canadian national team that won the gold medal at the 2014 World Lacrosse Championship.

Statistics

NLL

    Regular Season   Playoffs
Season Team GP G A Pts LB PIM GP G A Pts LB PIM
1993 Buffalo 8 3 3 6 27 4 2 0 0 0 8 2
1995 Rochester 8 2 9 11 29 8 2 0 5 5 10 2
1996 Rochester 10 10 24 34 63 8 1 2 3 5 8 0
1997 Rochester 10 9 17 26 55 18 2 0 6 6 16 0
1998 Rochester 11 7 20 27 44 6 1 0 2 2 2 2
1999 Rochester 10 9 18 27 50 4 2 0 6 6 18 0
2000 Rochester 11 6 20 26 89 6 2 2 2 4 19 2
2001 Rochester 12 2 17 19 75 12 1 0 2 2 3 0
2002 Buffalo 15 14 24 38 66 4 -- -- -- -- -- --
NLL Totals 95 62 152 214 498 70 13 4 26 30 84 8

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OLA

    Regular Season   Playoffs
Season Team League GP G A Pts PIM GP G A Pts PIM
1985Niagara WarriorsOLA Jr B21120----------
1985St. Catharines AthleticsOLA Jr A42240----------
1986St. Catharines AthleticsOLA Jr A201525408103582
1987St. Catharines AthleticsOLA Jr A2533701032391020308
1988St. Catharines AthleticsOLA Jr A1528336166713202
1989St. Catharines AthleticsOLA Jr A243161921711718252
1990St. Catharines AthleticsOLA Jr A1839621011191639558
1991Brampton ExcelsiorsMSL1314142826--66--
1992Brampton ExcelsiorsMSL141212242121411256
1993Brampton ExcelsiorsMSL15223153109710176
1994Six Nations ChiefsMSL2015334843187243131
1995Six Nations ChiefsMSL1815334829144202419
1996Six Nations ChiefsMSL181222343361910--
1997Niagara Falls GamblersMSL15122941121616153124
1998BuffaloMSL107111849513184
1999Brampton ExcelsiorsMSL2134--19926352
Junior A Totals1061482534016545439513822
Senior A Totals1251101882981351096313419792

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Canisius College

     
Season GP G A Pts PPG
1990 16 45 49 94 5.58
1991 13 30 18 48 3.69
1992 10 20 28 48 4.80
Totals 39 95 95 190 4.87 (a)
(a) 20th in NCAA career points-per-game

Accomplishments

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Power's bible of Lacrosse Stats". Power's Bible of Lacrosse.
  2. ↑ "O.L.A. Junior A Trophy Winners". wampsbibleoflacrosse.com.
  3. ↑ "Top 100 Career Leaders For Goals, Assists, And Points In Canadian Junior A Lacrosse". wampsbibleoflacrosse.com.
  4. ↑ "Canisius Griffins Coach Bio". Canisius University.
  5. ↑ "Rochester Knighthawks History". Rochester Knighthawks website.
  6. ↑ "Canisius Defeats VMI to Claim Its First MAAC Title". LaxPower.com. May 4, 2008.

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