The Tewaaraton Legend
The Tewaaraton Legends Award annually honors recipients who played college lacrosse prior to 2001, the first year in which the Tewaaraton Award was presented.
“The Spirit and Legends Awards are vital parts of our program: honoring the history and heritage of lacrosse is central to the mission of the Tewaaraton Foundation,” said Andy Phillips, President of the Tewaaraton Foundation.
Tewaaraton Legend recipients are chosen on the basis that their collegiate performance would have earned them a Tewaaraton Trophy, had the award existed when they played.
2025 Honorees
Gary Gait, Syracuse University
Gary Gait is considered by many to be the greatest lacrosse player of all-time, and his twin brother Paul is in the same conversation. Both were three-time NCAA Champions at Syracuse University, losing just one game from 1988 to 1990. Gary was a two-time winner of the USILA Lt. Raymond J. Enners Award, and was the NCAA Championship Most Outstanding Player in 1990, eventually being entered into the National Lacrosse Hall of Fame in 2005 while winning titles in the National Lacrosse League (1991, 1994, 1995), Major League Lacrosse (2001, 2002, 2005), Mann Cup (1991, 1997, 1999), Heritage Cup (2004), and the 2006 ILF World Championship with Team Canada. Gary just finished his fourth season as Roy D. Simmons Jr. Head Men’s Lacrosse Coach at his alma mater.
Paul Gait, Syracuse University
Paul Gait was a three-time first-team All-American at Syracuse and the 1989 NCAA Championship Most Outstanding Player, joining the National Lacrosse Hall of Fame in 2005 after playing in four world championships with Team Canada, earning first-team All-Pro honors eight times and being named the 2002 NLL MVP and also winning an MLL title with Long Island as Championship Game MVP in 2001. Paul Gait is the founder of leading manufacturer Gait Lacrosse.
Previous Recipients
2024
Francesca DenHartog, Harvard University
Bill Miller, Hobart College
2019
Tom Sears, University of North Carolina
2016
Candace Finn Rocha, Penn State University
Frank Urso, University of Maryland
2013
Joe Cowan, Johns Hopkins University
2023
Kathleen Geiger, Temple University
Doug Schreiber, University of Maryland
2018
Amanda Moore O’Leary, Temple University
Larry Quinn, Johns Hopkins University
2015
Brad Kotz, Syracuse University
2012
Eamon McEneaney, Cornell University
2022
Kelly Amonte Hiller, University of Maryland
Dave Pietramala, Johns Hopkins University
2017
Cherie Greer Brown, University of Virginia
Peter Cramblet, United States Military Academy
2014
Jimmy Lewis, United States Naval Academy
2011
Jim Brown, Syracuse University