SPARTANBURG, S.C. – Richmond graduate long stick midfielder Sean Menges earned third-team Inside Lacrosse Preseason All-America honors Tuesday, while High Point senior attack Asher Nolting and Richmond senior defender Jason Reynolds earned honorable mention.
 
Richmond’s Menges is one of just five long-stick midfielders on the preseason teams. He was named preseason All-SoCon last week after playing in all seven games for the Spiders in the shortened 2020 season. Last year, he earned SoCon Defensive Player of the Week honors on the first week of the season after forcing a career-high six turnovers against No. 4 Maryland.
 
Menges was named first-team All-SoCon in 2019, the first postseason accolades of his career. The long-stick midfielder led the team with 45 ground balls and caused a team-high 30 turnovers. He recorded a career-high six grounds balls in the Spiders' NCAA tournament contest at No. 3 Duke. He earned SoCon All-Tournament accolades for his play in the Spiders' clinching game against High Point, grabbing five ground balls. He caused a career-high five turnovers against No. 6 Duke (March 1) during the regular season. He was named the SoCon Defensive Player of the Week after the Spiders' wins over UMBC and No. 6 Notre Dame.
 
High Point’s Nolting Nolting was named to the Tewaaraton Award Watch list in 2020 for the second season in a row. Nolting started all eight of the Panthers' contests during the shortened season a year ago. He led the team with 22 assists while also adding 11 goals and five ground balls. Nolting Had multi-point games in every contest in 2020.
 
The Greenwood Village, Colorado, native, a two-time SoCon Offensive Player of the Year is the SoCon’s career leader in points per game (5.03), assists (106) and assists per game (2.79) and paced the league with 2.75 assists per game last year and was third in scoring at 4.12 points per game. He enters his senior campaign just 35 points shy of the SoCon record of 226.
 
Richmond’s Reynolds earns his preseason honors after being named honorable mention All-America in the shortened 2020 season. Last week, he was named preseason All-SoCon for the second straight year as the defensive anchor for the Spiders. He has started 39 games in his career, including all five games in which he played last season in the shortened year. He posted six ground balls and forced four turnovers in his five games.
 
Reynolds earned both first-team All-SoCon and SoCon All-Tournament accolades in 2019. The two-time all-conference recipient started all 14 games on defense for the Spiders, anchoring the back end and finishing second on the lead with 44 ground balls. Reynolds recorded nine games with two or more ground balls and posted a season-high five against Bucknell and Furman.

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IL's Preseason All-Americans
First Team
A           Michael Sowers Duke
A           Chris Gray          North Carolina
A           Jeff Teat             Cornell
M          Connor Kirst      Rutgers
M          Brendan Curry   Syracuse
M          Jamie Trimboli   Syracuse
FO         TD Ierlan            Yale
SSDM    Ryan Terefenko Ohio State
LSM       Jared Conners    Virginia
D           JT Giles-Harris    Duke
D           Gibson Smith     Georgetown
D           Chris Fake          Yale
G           Drake Porter      Syracuse
 
 
Second Team
A           Mac O'Keefe      Penn State
A           Jared Bernhardt Maryland
A           Matt Moore       Virginia
M          Dox Aitken         Virginia
M          Jack Hannah      Denver
M          Sam Handley     Penn
FO         Kyle Gallagher   Notre Dame
SSDM    Peter Dearth      Syracuse
LSM       Ryan McNulty    Loyola
D           Koby Smith        Towson
D           George Baughan             Princeton
D           Jack Kielty          Notre Dame
G           Mike Adler         Duke
 
 
Third Team
A           Jake Carraway   Georgetown
A           Logan Wisnauskas          Maryland
A           Jackson Morrill  Denver
M          Tanner Cook      North Carolina
M          Jonathan Donville           Cornell
M          Jeff Trainor        UMass
FO         Zach Cole           Saint Joseph's
SSDM    Danny Logan      Denver
LSM      Sean Menges    Richmond
D           Arden Cohen     Notre Dame
D           Nick Cardile       Penn State
D           Marcus Hudgins              Army
G           Owen McElroy   Georgetown
 
Honorable Mention
A           Brendan Nichtern           Army
A           Asher Nolting    High Point
A           Chase Scanlan   Syracuse
A           Joey Epstein       Johns Hopkins
A           Tre Leclaire        Ohio State
A           Ethan Walker     Denver
A           Dyson Williams Duke
A           Sean Lulley         Penn
M          Justin Anderson North Carolina
M          Tucker Dordevic              Syracuse
M          Nakeie Montgomery      Duke
M          Bubba Fairman  Maryland
M          Jack Kelly           Penn State
M          Anthony DeMaio            Maryland
M          Owen Caputo    Duke
FO         Bailey Savio       Loyola
FO         Gerard Arceri     Penn State
SSDM    Roman Puglise   Maryland
SSDM    Jake Stevens      Princeton
LSM       Teddy Leggett   Lehigh
LSM       Brett Kennedy   Syracuse
D           Pat Kennedy      Villanova
D           Anthony Tangredi           Lehigh
D           Will Bowen        North Carolina
D           Kyle Kology        Virginia
D           Brett Makar       Maryland
D           Jason Reynolds Richmond
D           Travis Talarico   Bucknell
G           Wyatt Schupler  Army
G           Toby Burgdorf   Providence
G           Phil Goss            Brown