![]() But rather than wallow in his misfortune, Burke got to work.and maybe benefited from a major rule change that offseason. “I graduated high school December 14th, and then we scrimmaged Maryland January 8th,” Burke said of the turnaround.īurke had a decent start to his freshman year until COVID shut it down just four games in. I committed the day after that.”īoth Burke and the Cats were so excited to get going that he finished high school a semester early and joined Vermont for the 2020 campaign. “My mom was ready to commit that day, but my stepdad said ‘Hey look, you have to look at another school.’ It was a good tour, but it paled in comparison to UVM. “Came here my junior year in high school, toured, I loved it,” Burke said of UVM. “It just so happened that one of my connections from Camp Dudley was familiar with Tommy Burke from being a counselor there and said, ‘Hey, here’s a guy that’s been relentlessly working on his faceoff work all Summer long, and you might want to take a look at him.’” “With Vermont, we have to be creative with where we recruit, and we cast a wide net,” Feifs said. My mom hung up the phone on another Division I program.” ![]() My parents got a few calls from college coaches and didn’t know what was really going on. “I would take the train like 12 hours down from upstate New York to Baltimore, and then spend the night on like a teammate or a friend’s couch. “I actually played lacrosse for a Canadian club team,” Burke said. In high school Burke went to great lengths to sharpen his skills and get noticed. “I kind of came to a conclusion, where I was like, ‘Look, if I put an hour or two hours a day into this for the next year, I have to get good at it.’ And so, I did it.” “In eighth grade, I always just used to take them, because they needed a guy to do it,” Burke said. And in a weird way it almost feels like I blinked and now I’m with a lot of those guys.” “And for me, I was just always trying to climb that mountain to being able to compete with those guys. “In high school, I was always looking up to these guys that were older, committed to you know, huge schools or were putting up crazy numbers,” Burke said. In each of the last three seasons, the Catamount FOGO has found himself in the top 5 in the country in faceoff percentage. ![]() Burke is a dean’s list student who was named academic all conference last year.but whatever mental approach he’s taking seems to be working for him. Nothing going on in between the ears, because I really think that thought piece can almost hold you back.”ĭon’t get it twisted. “I try to be like Patrick from Spongebob. “I think a lot of people look at it from, you know, what’s kind of the right headspace to be in,” said UVM senior faceoff specialist Tommy Burke. “When the game’s on the line, you go to that guy.” “The faceoff X is really what gets the game started, said UVM head coach Chris Feifs. Fortunately for UVM, they have one of the very best faceoff guys in the country. That is not the case in men’s lacrosse, which makes faceoffs one of the most critically important aspects of the game. (WCAX) - In most sports, after a team scores, they have to give the ball over and let the other team’s offense have a chance.
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