1999 NLL Entry Draft

As an expansion team, the Albany Attack were awarded the first pick in this afternoon's National Lacrosse League Draft at Marine Midland Arena in Buffalo, New York. But the team went for established talent instead, acquiring veterans Ted Dowling and Darris Kilgour from the Rochester Knighthawks along with that team's first round pick (second overall) in exchange for the top selection.

Rochester, who had the first pick overall last year as well (used to select Casey Powell from Syracuse University), took the 1999 NCAA Division I Outstanding Player and Outstanding Attackman, John Grant, Jr. from the University of Delaware. Grant also has international experience, having played for the Canadian men's national team both last summer (July, 1998) at the World Field Lacrosse Championships as well as two months ago at the inaugural World Cup of Lacrosse. The 6'0", 206 pounder from Hanmer, Ontario will be 25 years old in November.

The second pick, which had originally belonged to Syracuse, continued changing hands after the selection of Grant. Having now obtained it from Rochester, Albany then dealt it along with their second round pick (ninth overall) to the Bandits for Steve Fannell, John Rosa, and Buffalo's first round pick (sixth overall). The Bandits, however, then traded it and the second round pick they'd just gotten from the Attack -- along with a first round pick next September -- for Chris Prat and the fourth pick overall from the New York Saints, who then chose goaltender Gee Nash from Whitby (Ontario Lacrosse Association Jr. A). With a pick they'd obtained at the beginning of the month from Syracuse (obtained during last season from Buffalo), New York then chose Loyola College's Mark Frye.

Buffalo then traded the fourth pick to defending NLL champion Toronto for Shawn Williams and the Rock's second round pick (tenth overall). Toronto picked John Olson from Burnaby (British Columbia Lacrosse Association Jr. A) with the fourth selection in the draft.

With their pick, Philadelphia then took Georgetown's Greg McCavera fifth overall. That was followed by Albany making their first choice, Burlington's (OLA Jr. A) Scott Stewart. The Wings then had another pick (obtained when they had traded Gary Gait to Baltimore in December, 1997) which they used to select Gewas Schindler from Loyola. Toronto then closed out the first round with RIT's Kevin Langdale.

In all, 73 players were chosen. A total of 47 draftees were from the NCAA, while 15 came from OLA Jr. A, five from BCLA Jr. A and six came from a combination of other leagues.

Rochester’s Pick of Ben Hunt (9^th Overall) was a compensatory selection.

Round 1
*Overall*	*Team*	*Player*	*College*
1	Rochester	John Grant	Delaware
2	New York	Gee Nash	Whitby (OLA Jr. A)
3	New York	Mark Frye	Loyola
4	Toronto	John Olson	Burnaby (BCLA Jr. A)
5	Philadelphia	Greg McCavera	Georgetown
6	Albany	Scott Stewart	Burlington (OLA Jr. A)
7	Philadelphia	Gewas Schindler	Loyola
8	Toronto	Kevin Langdale	Rochester Institute of Technology
9	Rochester	Ben Hunt	Rochester Institute of Technology
Round 2
10	New York	Rob Doerr	Johns Hopkins
11	Buffalo	Todd Richard	Hartford
12	New York	Matt O'Kelly	Johns Hopkins
13	Syracuse	Josh Ruhle	Syracuse
14	Philadelphia	Matt Cutia	Syracuse
15	Buffalo	Pat Maddalena	Burlington (OLA Jr. A)
16	Pittsburgh	Scott Diggs	Duke
17	Toronto	Adam Bysouth	Burnaby (BCLA Jr. A)
Round 3
18	Albany	Rob Kirkby	Whitby (OLA Jr. A)
19	Syracuse	Tim O'Shea	Loyola
20	Buffalo	Trent Hill	Six Nations (OLA Jr. A)
21	Buffalo	Adam Pascal	Middlebury
22	Philadelphia	Jim Bruder	Delaware
23	Buffalo	Steve Evans	Peterborough (OLA Jr. A)
24	Pittsburgh	Tim O'Hara	Loyola
25	Toronto	Ryan Okada	South Fraser (BCLA Jr. A)
Round 4
26	Albany	Ken Montour	Six Nations (OLA Jr. A)
27	Syracuse	Matt Alexander	Syracuse
28	Buffalo	Scott Self	Peterborough (OLA Jr. A)
29	New York	John Harrington	Princeton
30	Philadelphia	Brody Bush	Rutgers
31	Rochester	Billy Serino	Nazareth
32	Pittsburgh	Todd Vizcarrondo	Loyola
33	Syracuse	Brian Abbott	Gettysburg
Round 5
34	Albany	Hamilton Pollard	Penn State
35	Syracuse	Pat Dutton	Cornell
36	Buffalo	Sean Holmes	Mississauga (OLA Jr. A)
37	New York	Lorne Smith	Princeton
38	Philadelphia	Tucker Radebaugh	Virginia
39	New York	Cory Kahoun	Butler
40	Pittsburgh	Dylan Schlott	Johns Hopkins
41	Toronto	Brad Reed	Whitby (OLA Jr. A)
Round 6
42	Albany	Kevin Howard	Edmonton (ALA Jr. B)
43	Syracuse	Greg Phillips	Akwesasne (OLA Major)
44	Buffalo	Scott Hochstadt	Maryland
45	New York	Tyler Gamble	Georgetown
46	Philadelphia	Kurt Lunkenheimer	Princeton
47	Rochester	Travis Johnson	Rochester Institute of Technology
48	Pittsburgh	Chris Lamy	Maryland
49	Toronto	Niall Maynard	Whitby (OLA Jr. A)
Round 7
50	Albany	Dennis DeBusschere	Delaware
51	Syracuse	Darren Axford	Peterborough (OLA Major)
52	Buffalo	Mario Lopez	Massachusetts
53	New York	Greg Hubschmann	Georgetown
54	Pittsburgh	Chris Turner	UMBC
55	Rochester	Joe Tuschong	Rochester Institute of Technology
56	Buffalo	Josh Black	St. Catharines (OLA Major)
57	Toronto	Jayme Bryde	South Fraser (BCLA Jr. A)
Round 8
58	Albany	Bruce Murray	New Westminster (BCLA Major)
59	Syracuse	Chris Killoren	Penn State
60	Buffalo	Marcus Mayus	Pace
61	New York	Chris Dusseau	Notre Dame
62	Pittsburgh	Kevin Sturm	Towson
63	Rochester	Chris Nadelen	Nazareth
64	Pittsburgh	Jason Quenzer	UMBC
65	Toronto	Mike Kennedy	New Westminster (BCLA Jr. A)
Round 9
66	Albany	Bruce Codd	Orangeville (OLA Jr. A)
67	Syracuse	Bradford Yunker	Nassau Community College
68	Buffalo	Tyler Francey	Whitby (OLA Jr. A)
69	New York	Joe Ghedina	Hofstra
70	Albany	Brandon Miller	Orangeville (OLA Jr. A)
71	Rochester	Marc Heagney	Rochester Institute of Technology
72	Pittsburgh	Dan Ross	Towson
73	Toronto	Matt Roik	St. Catharines (OLA Jr. A)

Albany traded the first pick in the draft to Rochester for Darris Kilgour, Ted Dowling, and the second pick in the draft.

Albany traded the second and ninth picks in the draft to the Bandits for Steve Fannell, John Rosa, and Buffalo's first round selection (sixth overall).

Buffalo traded the second and ninth picks overall along with a first round pick in the September, 2000 Draft to the Saints for Chris Prat and New York's first round draft pick (fourth overall).

Buffalo traded the fourth pick overall to Toronto for Shawn Williams and the Rock's second round pick (tenth overall).

Philadelphia traded Adam Mueller and their ninth round pick to Albany for Todd Evans.

Pittsburgh had obtained Philadelphia's seventh and eighth round picks in exchange for Tom Ryan and John Tillman.