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2024 Men's Lacrosse Roster

Eric Bickel
Eric Bickel

14 Kurt Wessner

  • Position Defense
  • Height 6-4
  • Weight 220
  • Class Graduate Student
  • Hometown Pineville, PA
  • High School La Salle College High School

Biography

2024 Graduate Year

Accolades: MAAC All-Academic Team, CSC Academic All-District At-Large Selection
  • Appeared in all 15 games
  • Collected 16 ground balls
  • Recorded 14 caused turnovers 
 
2023 Senior Year

Accolades: MAAC All-Championship Team, Academic All-District, MAAC All-Academic Team

  • Started in all 18 games
  • Totaled 20 ground balls and nine caused turnovers
  • Had five ground balls and two caused turnovers in the MAAC Semifinal victory over Mount St. Mary’s (5/4)
 
2022 Junior Year
Accolades: All-MAAC Second Team
MAAC All-Academic Team 
  • Started all 15 games that he appeared in.
  • Recorded 14 ground balls, and 13 caused turnovers.
2021 Sophomore Year
Accolades: MAAC All-Academic Team
  • Started all four of Marist's games. 
  • Played lockdown defense all year, and had three caused turnovers and a ground ball on the season. 
  • Had two caused turnovers in the MAAC Quarterfinals against Canisius, matching his career-high. 
 
2020 Freshman Year
Accolades: MAAC Rookie of the Week (2/24)
  • Started all six games. 
  • Wessner was a key cog in a defensive effort that held a #9/7 Army offense scoreless for nearly 30 minutes, . He also picked up a career-best three ground balls and did an excellent job on his individual assignment, helping Marist pull off the upset.
  • Caused a career-high two turnovers against Hartford, and matched that total his next game against Bucknell. 
  • Scooped up six ground balls and caused five turnovers on the year. 
 
General
Wessner was a standout athlete for the Explorers, where he was a 2019 state champion and a two-time state runner-up in 2016 and 2018. Individually, he was a team captain, earned First Team PCL honors, and received the Travis Manion Award for leadership and courage. Wessner has participated in the NXT Charity Showcase Team in Pennsylvania. His brother, Alex, played lacrosse at Alfred University, while his cousin, Jakob Phaup, is a current member of the men's lacrosse team at Syracuse.

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Historical Player Information

  • 14

    2020Freshman

    Defense
    6'4" 215 lbs
    14
  • 14

    2021Sophomore

    Defense
    6'4" 215 lbs
    14
  • 14

    2022Junior

    Defense
    6'4" 210 lbs
    14
  • 14

    2023Senior

    Defense
    6'4" 225 lbs
    14
  • 14

    2024Graduate Student

    Defense
    6'4" 220 lbs
    14

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