Matt Ward

Education

Ward attended prep school at Landon School in suburban Washington, District of Columbia, where he lettered in lacrosse, football, and basketball.

Career

Ward was also selected to All-State, All-County, and All-Conference teams as a junior and senior, scoring 33 goals and 20 assists as a senior (despite missing seven games due to injury) including the winning goal in overtime of the conference championship. Ward played National Collegiate Athletic Association Division I lacrosse at the University of Virginia from 2003 to 2006, where he was a three-time USILA All-American (2004, 2005, 2006) at the attack position and led the Virginia Cavaliers to two National Collegiate Athletic Association Men"s Lacrosse Championships, in 2003 and 2006. In 2006, he set the National Collegiate Athletic Association record for most goals (16) in the tournament and was named the tournament"s Most Outstanding Player.

The 2006 Cavalier season was also notable because it marked the first time in National Collegiate Athletic Association history that a Division I men"s lacrosse team had finished a season with a 17-0 record.

Beginning in 2006, Ward played professional outdoor lacrosse for the Major League Lacrosse team, the Washington Bayhawks after being selected in the first round of the 2006 MLL college draft.

Achievements

• He was the only lacrosse player to ever be named Washington Post All-Met Player of the Year two years in a row (2001, 2002). That year, he also won the Tewaaraton Trophy, given annually to the nation"s best player, and the Lieutenant Raymond Enners Award as the USILA"s Player of the Year. That year, Ward was named MLL Rookie of the Year.