Boys Lacrosse: Woodgrove SR Kellen McCarthy Looking Forward to Playing for Up and Coming Marymount but First Comes the Spring Season

(Feb. 28, 2013) - Woodgrove High School senior attackman Kellen McCarthy is fired up about the opportunity to play in the fall for Marymount University men's lacrosse coach Jon Reynolds in a program that McCarthy calls "an up and coming kind of a sleeper program”. First, however, McCarthy will concentrate on helping return the Wolverines to the VHSL state tournament for the third straight year as one of three senior captains along with defenseman Tucker Coil and midfielder Sam Weber.


The college recruitment of McCarthy to Marymount has been going on since after his freshman year at Loudoun Valley High School, where McCarthy was one of two freshman that played on the Vikings VHSL state finals team under Jeff Lewandowski. In McCarthy' sophomore year he moved over to Woodgrove with a host of other Vikings to help Lewandowski start the new school's program.

It didn't take long for Woodgrove to make a splash as the Wolverines made the state tournament in their first year as the third seed out of the Dulles District. Last year Woodgrove went 15-5 and qualified for States by shocking Dulles District regular-season and tournament champion Briar Woods, 12-10, in the AA Northern Sectional semifinals. Woodgrove then took the sectional title with a 10-9 win over Dulles runner-up Dominion.

McCarthy is the No. 2 scorer in the Wolverines young history with an impressive 118 points on 77 goals and 31 assists. In 2012 he was No. 9 overall in goals scored  and No. 2 in goals scored in the district according to the Washington Post's AllMetSports

In club lacrosse, McCarthy played six years for the Loudoun County-based FuZe club.