The defending Baggataway Cup champion Trent Excalibur led all teams with six Canadian University Field Lacrosse Association All-Canadians and also had a pair of honourable mentions among the players announced by CUFLA for the 2023 season based on voting by the league's teams. The Guelph Gryphons had the most All Canadians in the West Conference with five, while the Western Mustangs had a total of seven players honoured with four All Canadians and three honourable mentions.
East Conference
The Excalibur had All Canadians all over the field. Cole Hanrahan was among the three forwards named to the CUFLA East All Canadian squad, alongside Carleton's Jacob Gasperetti and McGill's Dylan James.
Adam Hawrelak of the Excalibur is joined at midfield by Carleton's Jacob Garcia and Bryan Poetker from Queen's. Trent also has two of the three East All Canadian defenders in Curtis Conley and Ben MacDonnell, with that trio being rounded out by McGill's Logan Glick.
Trent players were voted All Canadian at both defensive specialist positions, with Nick Webb being named the top East Conference D middie and Chris Schell the LSM.
Carleton's Thomas Kiazyk was named East All-Canadian goalie while Hawkeye Hamilton of Queen's is the faceoff specialist.
West Conference
Western, which had one of the best defensive seasons in CUFLA history, pulled off the rare feat of sweeping a position on the conference All Canadian team. Chris da Silva, Chris Dong and Jacob Hickey of the Mustangs were voted the top three midfielders. The fourth Mustangs' All Canadian is attack Connor Murphy.
Guelph's contingent was led by a pair of attack joining Murphy; Gryphons' co-scoring leaders Robbie Baxter and Liam Aston were both voted All Canadian.
The Gryphons have two defenders on the West Conference squad. Nolan Schott and Jake Cook are joined on defence by AJ Skirving of McMaster. The Marauders terrific defensive season was also recognized with the selection of goalie Neel Cargill to the All Canadian team.
The specialists on the West Conference team are faceoff man Kyle Detweiler from Guelph, D middie Mitch Armstrong of Brock and Toronto's Henry Klinck at LSM.
The full All Canadian rosters, including honourable mentions, is below.
EAST:
Attack
Jacob Gasperetti - Carleton
Cole Hanrahan - Trent
Dylan James – McGill
Honourable mention: Antoine Tremblay – Bishop’s, Sam Trumble – Carleton
Midfield
Jacob Garcia – Carleton
Adam Hawrelak – Trent
Bryan Poetker – Queen’s
Honourable mention: Holden Lowes – Trent, Markus Young – Bishop’s
Faceoff
Hawkeye Hamilton – Queen's
Honourable mention: Sam MacDonald – McGill
D middie
Nick Webb – Trent
Honourable mention: Louis-Antoine Habre – McGill
LSM
Chirs Schell – Trent
Honourable mention: Max Naysmith – Bishop’s
Defence
Curtis Conley – Trent
Logan Glick – McGill
Ben McDonnell – Trent
Honourable mention: Nick Bafia – Carleton, Ben Kromer – Ottawa
Goalie
Thomas Kiazyk – Carleton
Honourable mention: Jackson Brown – Trent
WEST:
Attack
Liam Aston – Guelph
Robbie Baxter – Guelph
Connor Murphy – Western
Honourable mention: Jaden Patterson – Brock, Avery Steinbach-Parker – Brock
Midfield
Chris da Silva – Western
Chris Dong - Western
Jacob Hickey – Western
Honourable mention: Blair Pachereva – Brock, Nicholas Volkov – Guelph
Faceoff
Kyle Detweiler – Guelph
Honourable mention: Aidan Colebrook – Western
D middie
Mitch Armstrong – Brock
Honourable mention: Sam Van der Zalm – Western
LSM
Henry Klinck – Toronto
Honourable mention: Alec Meehan – McMaster
Defence
Jake Cook – Guelph
Nolan Schott- Guelph
AJ Skirving – McMaster
Honourable mention: Nathan Fehr – Brock, Landon Masse – Western
Goalie
Neel Cargill – McMaster
Honourable mention: Sam Lehman – Toronto
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