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Minnesota Swarm Announces 23-Man Roster

December 14, 2005 - National Lacrosse League (NLL)
Minnesota Swarm News Release


SAINT PAUL/MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. - Minnesota Swarm General Manager Marty O'Neill today announced the National Lacrosse League (NLL) team's opening night roster. The Swarm's 23-man roster consists of nine forwards, 12 defensemen and two goaltenders. The club also announced today that it has released D Nate Andres, G Mike Attwood, F Dean Hill, D Anthony Kelly and D Tyler Perry.

The Swarm's roster includes 17 players that played with the team last season and features eight players that were on the 2005 Mann Cup champion Victoria Shamrocks team this summer: Ryder Bateman, Ryan Cousins, Kelly Hall, Nolan Heavenor, Riley Kemp, Sean Pollock, Noah Talbot and Ryan Ward.

2006 MINNESOTA SWARM OPENING NIGHT ROSTER

# FORWARDS (9) HT WT SHOOTS BORN BIRTHPLACE 2005 TEAM LGE GP G A PTS PIM LB ACQ
14 Ryder Bateman 6-0 195 Right 2/18/80 Calgary, Alberta Minnesota NLL 14 20 19 39 20 56 EN/04
22 Kasey Beirnes 5-11 195 Right 6/17/80 Fergus, Ontario Arizona NLL 1 1 0 0 0 3 TRD/05
10 Chad Culp 5-9 175 Left 2/5/82 Fergus, Ontario Minnesota NLL 14 18 23 41 17 87 TRD/04
11 Kelly Hall 5-9 185 Left 1/14/80 Victoria, B.C. Minnesota NLL 13 27 21 48 34 47 TRD/05
7 Tony Henderson 6-4 240 Left 8/13/74 Buffalo, NY Arizona/ Minnesota NLL 4 3 2 5 2 5 FA/05
8 Rory McDade 5-11 180 Left 8/27/81 New Westminster, B.C. Burnaby WLA 12 13 8 21 7 -- FA/05
17 Sean Pollock 5-10 175 Right 7/7/82 Wallaceburg, Ontario Minnesota NLL 13 9 16 25 17 42 EXP/04
40 Jamie Taylor 5-9 180 Left 3/17/80 Hamilton, Ontario Minnesota NLL 15 9 27 36 17 52 TRD/04
44 Ryan Ward 5-9 190 Right 9/26/80 Victoria, B.C. Phily/ Minnesota NLL 16 24 27 51 4 76 TRD/05

# DEFENSEMEN (12) HT WT SHOOTS BORN BIRTHPLACE 2005 TEAM LGE GP G A PTS PIM LB ACQ
24 Brock Boyle 5-8 175 Left 6/14/82 Toronto, Ontario Minnesota NLL 15 9 3 12 18 44 TRD/05
50 Ryan Cousins (C) 6-1 200 Right 4/1/81 Toronto, Ontario Minnesota NLL 16 5 4 9 45 48 TRD/04
19 Darryl Gibson 6-1 205 Left 7/28/76 Toronto, Ontario San Jose/Arizona NLL 16 3 8 11 19 84 TRD/05
28 Nolan Heavenor 5-9 180 Right 5/30/82 Victoria, B.C. Victoria WLA 12 16 12 28 19 -- EN/05
47 Travis Hill 5-10 170 Right 6/30/82 Lewiston, New York Minnesota NLL 5 0 0 0 8 22 FA/05
77 Riley Kemp 5-11 185 Left 4/19/82 High River, Alberta Minnesota NLL 16 8 12 20 27 94 FA/04
55 Michael Kilby 6-0 200 Right 3/12/81 Burnaby, B.C. Minnesota NLL 14 0 3 3 45 26 FA/05
12 Eric Pacey 6-2 212 Right 5/3/78 Toronto, Ontario Minnesota NLL 13 2 5 7 14 37 TRD/04
20 Kyle Ross 6-1 187 Right 5/12/83 New Westminster, B.C. New Westminster WLA 16 4 10 14 29 -- EN.04
23 Jon Sullivan 6-2 195 Right 6/30/82 St. Catharines, Ontario Minnesota NLL 9 2 4 6 16 22 FA/04
33 Shawn Summerfield 6-2 215 Right 3/16/81 Scarborough, Ontario Minnesota NLL 1 0 0 0 2 1 FA/05
16 Noah Talbot 6-0 180 Left 12/24/79 Vancouver, B.C. Arizona NLL 13 2 4 6 10 65 TRD/05

# GOALTENDERS (2) HT WT SHOOTS BORN BIRTHPLACE 2005 TEAM LGE GP MIN GA W-L GAA SV% ACQ
1 Matt Disher 6-3 240 Left 7/10/76 Hagersville, Ontario Minnesota NLL 14 788 190 4-10 14.45 .729 TRD/04
93 Nick Patterson 5-11 185 Right 12/8/82 Vancouver, B.C. Minnesota NLL 4 89 23 1-0 15.47 .729 DISP/04

# INJURED RESERVE HT WT SHOOTS BORN BIRTHPLACE 2005 TEAM LGE GP G A PTS PIM LB ACQ
66 D'Arcy Berthiaume (A) 6-0 210 Right 8/4/75 Victoria, B.C. Minnesota NLL 13 14 18 32 20 88 DISP/04


For more information on becoming a Minnesota Swarm season ticket holder please call (888) MN-SWARM. The Swarm opens its 2006 NLL regular season schedule at Xcel Energy Center on Friday, January 6 against the Philadelphia Wings.



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