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2025 Premier Lacrosse League season

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The 2025 Premier Lacrosse League season is the 7th season of the Premier Lacrosse League (PLL). The regular season began on May 30 and will run through August 9. The playoffs will run from August 22 through September 14.

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Player movements

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Retirements

Free agency

Free agency occurred from March 3 to May 7. Eligible players were any player with an expired contract or any player who was not on an active roster for 30% of the clubs' games.[1]

Notable movements include:

College draft

The college draft took place on May 6 at 7 pm (ET) and was broadcast on ESPN+.[2] The Philadelphia Waterdogs had the first pick, selecting the NCAA career goals record holder, CJ Kirst. The Denver Outlaws and California Redwoods made the most selections with five, including California making two first-round selections. The Boston Cannons and the Carolina Chaos made the fewest selections with three.

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Trades

In the explanations below, (PD) indicates trades completed prior to the start of the draft (i.e. Pre-Draft), while (D) denotes trades that took place during the 2025 draft.

First round
  1. No. 3: Outlaws → Cannons (PD). On November 7, the Cannons traded Pat Kavanaugh for the 2025 3rd overall pick and Denver's earliest 2026 second round pick. [5]
    1. Cannons → Redwoods (PD). On March 21, the Redwoods traded Owen Grant to the Cannons for the 3rd overall pick and their 2026 4th.[6]
  2. No. 5: Chaos → Archers (D). During the 2025 Draft, the Archers traded the 8th and 16th overall picks to the Chaos for the 5th and 21st overall picks.[7]
  3. No. 8: Archers → Chaos (D). See pick 5.
Second round
  1. No. 15: Whipsnakes → Waterdogs (PD). On August 6, the Waterdogs traded Ryan Conrad to the Whipsnakes for a 2025 2nd.[8]
  2. No. 16: Archers → Chaos (D). See pick 5.
Third round
  1. No. 17: Waterdogs → Whipsnakes (PD). The Whipsnakes traded Zed Williams and the 23rd overall pick to the Waterdogs for Matt Brandau and the 17th overall pick.[9]
  2. No. 18: Redwoods → Archers (PD). During the 2024 PLL Draft, the Archers traded the 2024 32nd pick to the Redwoods for their 2025 3rd.[10]
  3. No. 20: Cannons → Whipsnakes (PD). On November 28, 2023, the Cannons traded Matt Rees, the 2024 22nd pick, and their 2025 3rd for Connor Kirst and Bryce Young.[11]
  4. No. 21: Chaos → Archers. See pick 5.
  5. No. 23: Whipsnakes → Waterdogs (PD). See pick 17.
  6. No. 24: Archers → Whipsnakes (PD). On August 13, the Whipsnakes traded Jackson Morrill for a 2025 3rd.[12]
Fourth round
  1. No. 26: Redwoods → Outlaws (PD). On March 28, the Outlaws traded Brendan Nichtern to the Redwoods for the 26th overall pick.[13]
  2. No. 29: Chaos → Redwoods (PD). On April 9, the Redwoods traded Garrett Degnon to the Chaos for the 29th overall pick.[14]
  3. No. 31: Whipsnakes → Redwoods (PD). On June 11, the Redwoods traded Levi Anderson to the Whipsnakes for a 2025 4th.[15]

Summary

Selections by NCAA conference
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Schools by number of draft selections
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Selections by position
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Notes
  1. Florida's lacrosse program is affiliated with the Men's Collegiate Lacrosse Association, playing at the club sport level.[3] Hess spent his four years of NCAA eligibility with Georgetown where he was a first-team All-American in 2024.[4]
  2. Dylan Hess, Florida

Mid-season player movement

Jared Bernhardt

On May 29, the PLL reported that former Tewaaraton Award winner, Jared Bernhardt, was meeting with PLL teams to discuss a return to lacrosse.[16] After graduating from Maryland, Bernhardt chose to play football at Ferris State, and pursue his dream of playing in the NFL.[17] After winning the DII National Championship, he signed with the Atlanta Falcons, making their 53-man roster in 2022. Bernhardt appeared in two games before he suffered a groin injury and was placed on IR.[18] He was waived for the final time in 2024.[18]

After meeting with several teams, Bernhardt signed with the Denver Outlaws on June 2nd.[19] He joined fellow Tewaaraton Award winners Logan Wisnauskas, Brennan O'Neill, and Pat Kavanaugh in Denver.

Free agency

On July 9, Jules Heningburg signed with the Boston Cannons. He spent the 2024 season with the Chaos and was waived after training camp. The four-time All-Star returned to the PLL with 3 points in his debut.[20]

On July 15, Dox Aitken made his return to lacrosse, moving from the hold-out list to the New York Atlas' 25-man roster.[21] Aitken previously chose to pursue football, playing for the semi-pro Ohio Valley Ironmen of the International Football Alliance. On June 26, they canceled the remainder of their season after starting the season 3-0 with a combined score of 166-0.[22]

Trades

On June 9, the Outlaws traded Sam Handley to the Redwoods for a 2026 third-round pick.[23] The 2023 fourth-overall pick scored 30 points in his first two seasons, but was pushed out of the offensive rotation by the arrival of Jared Bernhardt.[23][24]

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Tour map

Tour locations for the 2025 PLL season
Legend:
: Home-city location
: Neutral-site tour location
: All-Star Game location
: Quarterfinals location
: Semifinals location
: Finals location

Tour venues

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  1. Capacity may not reflect the capacity for the PLL's purposes due to various areas of the stadium potentially being closed for lacrosse games

Schedule

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The addition of home cities and conferences brought slight changes to the schedule. Every team has one weekend where they are the home team and play a weekend doubleheader. There are two weekends (Chicago and Fairfield) when there is no home team and every team plays. Each team will play in-conference opponents twice and out-of-conference opponents once. All games are streamed on ESPN+ during the season.

Note: All times in the table below are EDT (UTC−4).

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  1. All games streamed on ESPN+ alongside the network listed.

Source:[26]

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Regular Season Standings

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  1. Maryland earned the no. 2 seed in the Eastern Conference by virtue of a superior score differential of 11 over Philadelphia and Boston. Philadelphia earned the no. 3 seed by virtue of a superior score differential over Boston, −3 to −11.
  2. California earned the no. 2 seed in the Western Conference by virtue of a superior score differential over Carolina, −4 to −15.
Top Team in Each Conference Received a First-round Bye
Top Three Teams in Each Conference Qualify for the 2025 Playoffs
Last-place Team in Each Conference Miss 2025 Playoffs
Y = Qualified for the Championship Series

Source: Standings - Premier Lacrosse League

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Postseason

Bracket

Quarterfinals
August 23
(Eagan, MN)
Semifinals
September 1
(Chester, PA)
PLL Championship Game
September 14
(Harrison, NJ)
#1   Atlas
#2   Whipsnakes 12 #3   Waterdogs
#3   Waterdogs 14  
 
#1   Outlaws
#2   Redwoods 14 #2   Redwoods
#3   Chaos 12

Regular-season statistical leaders

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Source:[27]

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Awards

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Players of the Week

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Individual Season Awards

On August 18, the PLL announced the finalists for its 2025 end-of-season awards via social media plataforms.

List of awards and finalists

The winner of the award are highlighted in bold.

Jim Brown Most Valuable Player
Eamon McEneaney Attackman of the Year
Gait Brothers Midfielder of the Year
Dave Pietramala Defensive Player of the Year
Oren Lyons Goalie of the Year
Paul Cantabene Face-Off Athlete of the Year
Brodie Merrill Long Stick Midfielder of the Year
George Boiardi Hard Hat Award - Awarded to the SSDM of the year
Rookie of the Year
Comeback Player of the Year
Dick Edell Coach of the Year
Dave Huntley Sportsmanship Award
Welles Crowther Humanitarian Award
Jimmy Regan Teammate Award
Brendan Looney Leadership Award
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Coaching changes

Off-season changes

On December 5, 2024, Andy Towers resigned as head coach of the Carolina Chaos, over disputes with the PLL.[41][42] He was replaced by Roy Colsey on January 30, 2025.[43]

In March 2025, Nat St. Laurent stepped down as head coach of the California Redwoods.[44] He was replaced by Anthony Kelly on March 20, 2025.[45]

References

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