Position: Defense
Height: 5′ 7″
Weight:. 185
Birth date: 11/6/73
Hometown: Ridgewood, NJ

College: Brown Uiversity

• 3 year starter, Team Captain and MVP ‘96
• 1^st Team All Ivy, HM All American ‘96
• Team Captain for North Squad North-South Game

High School: Ridgewood High School

• Lacrosse All American 92
• Lacrosse 1^st Team All State 92, 2^nd Team All State 91, HM All State 90
• Two Time State Champion 90, 91, State Runner-up 92
• Only starter for all 44 games of the state’s longest winning streak. 90-92
• All County Defensive Back for football, Football State Champions 91
• Three Sport Captain: Football, Basketball, Lacrosse

Q & A:

1. What is your favorite lacrosse moment? Scoring a goal against Princeton in the 94 Semifinals.
2. Who is your biggest lacrosse mentor? Joe Breschi, Bob Turco,
3. What comes to mind when you think Ryan Powell and Rhino Lacrosse? Ryan focuses on the kids first.  He honors the game while making sure everyone involved has fun.
4. Can you tell us what you currently do with yourself and what do you spend your time doing? I am a middle school humanities teacher and high school lacrosse coach.  When I am not coaching or teaching, I ski, run the trails in Forest Park, or hang out with my wife Keri and son Quinn.
5. If you had to come up with a goal for you and your lacrosse career, what would it be? To continue to honor the game and meet more quality people

Favorite:

Food: Pizza
Drink: Lemonade
Music: Bruce Springsteen
Athlete: Walter Payton
State: Oregon, sorry Jersey.
Magazine: Trailrunner
Sport: Lacrosse and Trailrunning
Time of Day: Grilling Time
Restaurant: Porque No? Best taco in town!
Stick: I miss my Excalibur from college.

“A lot of the sport’s growth in Portland can be attributed to a great deal of people with knowledge of the game who moved to the area from the east coast. One of those people is Dennis Sullivan, who played at Brown University and spent one year in the MLL with the New Jersey Pride. He moved out to Oregon and coaches at Oregon Episcopal School, where he led the team to 3 State Championships. Those around the game say he has a “fabulous personality” and that “he would bend over backwards for these kids.” Lake happily said, “These are the kind of people that really make things work out here.”  -majorleaguelacrosse.com