CUFLA at the World Championships in San Diego

The World Lacrosse men's field championship is under way in San Diego, California and once again, CUFLA is represented. 

Latrell Harris returns with Canada to try to earn the gold medal that was plucked from their grasp in 2018 in Netanya, Israel. Harris is a Brock Badgers alum who was named All-Canadian at both LSM and close defence during his CUFLA career. He plays primarily as a short stick defensive midfielder for Canada. 

The St. Catharines native is coming off a huge National Lacrosse League season in which he was named the NLL's Defender of the Year for his outstanding play with the Toronto Rock.
 

Mikael Chullen is playing for Peru in San Diego. He hails from Toronto and has been involved in the game in his home town in various faculties. As an attack for the University of Toronto, Chullen was named an All Canadian in 2007. He is now the offensive coach for the Varsity Blues.

Chullen has the assist on this JP Henry goal for Peru in Day 3 action. 
 

🔙-to-🔙 for JP Henry #WLMC | #SanDiego2023 pic.twitter.com/l6XhXw0Owe

Chullen has also had a varied and successful box lacrosse career. He has played Sr B for the Oakville Titans nad Sr C for the Lakefield Rage. Chullen spent a year with the Peterborough Timbermen in the Arena Lacrosse League then this year helped the expansion Brampton Express finish in a tie for first place and reach the ALL's championship game. 

This spring, Chullen travelled to Prague, Czech Republic to play for Adler Lacrosse (alongside former Western Mustangs All Canadian LSM Keagan Croley) in the Ales Hrebesky Memorial. Chullen tied for the tournament scoring lead with 18 points.

Peru played in the World Championship for the first time in 2018, then this year qualified as one of the 30 teams to earn a spot in San Diego, the first time that the field has been limited. Chullen contributed a goal for Peru in their thrilling 2023 opening game, in which they were edged 7-6 by Latvia. 
 

McGill University has five people representing it in San Diego. Former players taking part include Steven Pelliccione in goal for Italy, Matthew Tse playing for Hong Kong and Quentin Norris with France. Also on the French team is assistant professor Dr. Kaita Christophe. Stone Jacobs, who is expected to join the McGill coaching staff this fall, is on the Haudenosaunee Nationals roster. 

You can see more details about the McGill connections at the Worlds in a story on the school's web site. 

Besides Harris playing for Canada in 2018 while he was still at Brock, Bishop's Gaiters grad Alex Millin played for of Korea in Netanya. Millin led Korea in scoring with 15 goals and 2 assists in their seven games, and he caught up with CUFLA communications coordinator Stephen Stamp to speak for a story on the CUFLA web site.