Nolan Godfrey

American Lacrosse Player

Nolan Godfrey was born in Haverhill, Massachusetts, United States on March 31st, 1981 and is the American Lacrosse Player. At the age of 42, Nolan Godfrey biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.

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Date of Birth
March 31, 1981
Nationality
United States
Place of Birth
Haverhill, Massachusetts, United States
Age
42 years old
Zodiac Sign
Aries
Profession
Athlete
Nolan Godfrey Height, Weight, Eye Color and Hair Color

At 42 years old, Nolan Godfrey has this physical status:

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178cm
Weight
88kg
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Nolan Godfrey Religion, Education, and Hobbies
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Nolan Godfrey Career

Godfrey collected All-American (second team), All-Conference (first team), and All-New England honors for the 2005 year. He finished second nationally with a .682 success rate on face-offs.

Prior to the 2006 season, Godfrey was named to the Inside Lacrosse preseason All-America team. Godfrey and teammates traveled to LeMoyne for the NE10 Conference Championship game and closed out as league runners-up as LeMoyne won 10-3. Godfrey capped off a workhorse campaign leading the nation in face-off attempts (345) and ground balls (131) and ranking second in face-off wins (211). He finished his Merrimack career with a 22-10 record and several school records in all face-off and ground ball categories.

Professional career

Nolan Godfrey was initially drafted by the Buffalo Bandits in the 4th round (50th overall selection) of the 2006 NLL Entry Draft at Madison Square Garden in New York City.

In December 2006, Godfrey was selected with the tenth overall pick in the 1st round of the 2007 MLL Supplemental Draft by the defending MLL Champion Philadelphia Barrage. He was acquired prior to the 2008 season by his hometown Boston Cannons. Godfrey began each of his two MLL seasons with his respective teams, though went to Canada both summers to play Senior level indoor box lacrosse. He rejoined the MLL coming into the Ohio Machine 2012 season and prior to appearing in a game for the Machine was acquired mid-season by the Denver Outlaws who he saw brief action with.

Godfrey prepared for the 2008 indoor season by playing transition for Team USA Indoor at the Warrior Cup in Six Nations (Ontario, Canada) and on their Developmental Team's arena exhibition tour.

Godfrey was one of the first Americans to embark on an extended career in Canadian box lacrosse and his first season up North was chronicled in a journal series published in Inside Lacrosse magazine in late 2006. His initial experience in the Canadian ranks was with Brooklin of the Ontario Lacrosse Association in 2006. In 2007, Godfrey played between the Valleyfield and Longueuil franchises in the province of Quebec. His career evolved to the highest level of play in Canada in the summer of 2008 when he signed and suited up with the Nanaimo Timbermen of the Senior-A Western Lacrosse Association in British Columbia. A top draw man throughout his Canadian box career, he also led Quebec in penalty minutes served (PIM) with 108 in 2011.

Coaching and business career

Godfrey's commitment to the indoor game was evident in 2009 when he partnered with Essex, VT businessman Jeff Culkin in starting the first American box lacrosse franchise to compete in an otherwise exclusively Canadian league. The two co-owners debuted the Vermont Voyageurs in their inaugural season competing in the Quebec Senior Lacrosse League (QSLL) in 2009.

Godfrey is an experienced coach with time in the NCAA ranks at Division II Saint Anselm College, founder of two Massachusetts boys high school programs (Haverhill High School and Central Catholic High School), Massachusetts Division I state finalist with Billerica Memorial High School, and growing the Texas landscape as former head coach of St. Andrew's Episcopal in Austin and Plano Senior High School. He has toured Europe on several occasions to grow the game on a grassroots level by running camps in Spain, Italy, Holland, Switzerland, Scotland, and Finland. Godfrey was a guest clinician at the 2008 European Lacrosse Championships in Lahti, Finland and blogged about the trip in Inside Lacrosse. He has also coached for the Spanish National Team in 2007.

An innovative entrepreneur of the sport, Godfrey is known as a preeminent clinician of the face-off position through his company, FaceOff Club. US Lacrosse has invited him to be a featured speaker at their 2011 National Convention in Baltimore and he returned again to speak in 2012. Godfrey's business pursuits extend also to Claddagh Lacrosse and Southern Combat Lacrosse.

His business experience is complemented by graduate work at Boston University in their Master's program in Coaching and Sport Psychology. BU boasts one of the only such programs in the nation and their research is focused through their Institute for Athletic Coach Education. Godfrey has taken his higher education and advanced his business to contracting speaking engagements with major corporations and organizations to train their executives and upper management in the topics of team leadership, group coaching, positive psychology, and motivation.

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