The 2026 Marquette Men’s Lacrosse Season Preview: The Newcomers

We’re coming up on a week left to go before Marquette men’s lacrosse gets the second season of the Jake Richard era underway! We’ve already spent some time in our season preview package talking about the guys returning from last year’s roster, so that means that our attention turns to the new guys in the program this year. There are three transfers that we’ll get to along the way in addition to 12 freshmen. I’m not 100% certain any of the three transfers are locked and loaded to be contributors for the Golden Eagles right away, but we’ll get to that as we get to that. Be sure to swing back to our look at the returning guys before reading through here, as there’s important context about roles on the team that you need to know to see how the new guys might fit in.

Okay, let’s get started, and we’ll start with attackers, then move on to midfield, long stick midfield, defense, faceoffs, and goalie.

ATTACK

The Golden Eagles are adding one freshman and one transfer in their main offensive group. Ben Pousak (6’0”, 185 lbs, Northville, Michigan, #22) is the freshman, and he comes in with quite the prep pedigree. After spending his freshman season at home in Michigan, Pousak was at IMG Academy for the past three years, including getting bumped up to the IMG National team from just varsity lacrosse. As a senior, he put up 60 goals to get to 74 points, which led the team. He also won a World Junior box lacrosse championship for Team USA at the U21 level in 2025, and the year before that, Pousak was leading the U21 team in points. Again, I have to point this out: Ben Pousak was leading the way for the box lacrosse team where you can be as old as 21 and be eligible to play, and he was doing that before starting college. Marquette needs scoring options this season, even as secondary or tertiary options, and if Pousak has experience playing against older and bigger defensemen in close quarters from box lacrosse already, that tends to make me think that he might be able to make an impact at least a little bit right away.

Marquette’s new transfer attacker is Tucker Mullen (5’10”, 165 lbs, Delray Beach, Florida, #13), who was a top 60 prospect back when he first enrolled at Virginia. However, his career with the Cavaliers never quite came together in a manner that matches that recruiting ranking in the class of 2021. Part of that is just playing in only eight games in his first two seasons, and part of that is just being on UVa teams that went 12-4 and 13-4 and won at least one NCAA tournament game each year. They had dudes is what I’m saying. The other part is the open heart surgery that Mullen underwent in November of 2023 to correct an anomalous origin of the right coronary artery. That and some bouts with pericarditis obviously kept him off the field in spring 2024, but he was cleared to return to action in spring 2025. Mullen played in four games for the Cavaliers last year, including his first career start and his first career assist. With Virginia starting out 2026 at #14 in the preseason Inside Lacrosse media poll, it would seem that Mullen and his UVa degree elected to find a spot that could actually turn into playing time for him in what I presume will be his final year of eligibility. If that top 60 prospect is in Milwaukee, then perhaps the Golden Eagles have something extra to throw at opponents this year.

MIDFIELD

With Will Foster’s eligibility over and Matt Caputo listing as an attacker on the roster instead of the midfield position that earned him all-Big East honors last season, it would seem that Marquette is in need of someone putting up points in a big way in the midfield in 2026. There are some returning guys that could fit the bill depending on what kind of roles best suit them, but I’d like to point you towards the possibility that Parker Leslie (5’11”, 190 lbs, Middleton, Wisconsin, #27) and/or Troy Teff (6’2”, 175 lbs, Middleton, Wisconsin, #41) could be that guy (or guys!) for the Golden Eagles. Leslie and Teff were teammates and classmates at Middleton High School out near Madison, and they really tore it up over there. Leslie earned two all-Wisconsin First Team honors largely for reasons connected to finishing his career with 163 goals and 59 assists for 222 points. If you’re saying “oh, dang, that’s a lot, and Andy’s not even saying that was the Middleton record,” well, I’m not saying that for a reason. You betcha, Teff has the Middleton career record for points with 284 and assists with 101. Math says that’s 183 goals, so he’s got Leslie beat there, too. Those guys were a big reason why Middleton won a state title in 2024, which is a nice extra bonus to their careers. Oh, and speaking of bonuses: Teff is also Middleton’s football record holder for catches, yards, and touchdowns…. and yes, I do mean both single season and career records.

I wonder if Thomas Andriole (6’4”, 200 lbs, Louisville, Kentucky, #17) and Iggy LoMedico (5’9”, 180 lbs, Baldwinsville, New York, #30) had defensive midfielder roles in high school. I ask this question because they don’t have much in the way of stats in their official Marquette bios. Andriole’s team bio notes that he earned all-state and all-tournament honors, and I have to presume that he did at least the tournament portion of that while Saint Xavier was winning one of the two Kentucky state titles they won while Andriole was on the roster. LoMedico’s only says that he had 33 goals and 12 assists as a high school senior, and let’s be honest: That’s not really knocking anyone’s boots off…. unless he was a short stick defensive mid, and he stacked all that up in transition attempts. That’s kind of great if that’s the case. ASIDE: The following sentence is 100% real and on LoMedico’s official team bio:

Full first name is Ignazio, but nickname is the same as Marquette’s Golden Eagle mascot, Iggy

Marquette has two relative mysteries in this group, too. Pierce Johnstone Clark (6’1”, 180 lbs, Odenton, Maryland, #37) is a freshman who has a team bio that says “played two years of high school lacrosse” and that’s it. Okay, not literally, but almost literally. Patrick Tuohy (5’8”, 170 lbs, Cold Spring Harbor, New York, #66) is the other, and he’s the lone transfer in the position group. Yep, he has been on a Division 1 roster for two years, but he’s still a mystery because Tuohy did not play for Lehigh. Now, with Tucker Mullen, we could theorize that he was merely caught in a depth shuffle on a couple of very good Virginia teams in his first two years. Tuohy doesn’t have that as an explainer for not playing at all, as Lehigh went 10-7 his freshman year and 5-10 his sophomore year. They did get to the NCAA tournament by way of a Patriot League championship freshman year after going 6-2 in the league in the regular season, but these are not nationally relevant and very important teams. His Lehigh team bio does say that he’s a defensive midfielder, or was in high school at least, so we’ll see if he can fit into the Marquette puzzle right out of the gate.

LONG STICK MIDFIELDER

Marquette’s last new transfer pops up here, as Harrison Sweeney (6’3”, 200 lbs, West Hartford, Connecticut, #81) spent the last two years at Hartford Community College in Maryland. Across two seasons there, he played in 16 games, and he started four times in his nine appearances in 2025. That’s nine appearances in 14 games, for the record. Obviously there’s something that Jake Richard likes about Sweeney, so we can’t dismiss him out of hand completely, but 15 ground balls and 10 caused turnovers in 16 appearances across two years at the junior college level is not exactly a statistical background that makes you sit up and take notice.

DEFENSE

Because neither of the other two guys have stats that Marquette wants to talk about in their team bios, I presume that Carson Miks (6’0”, 180 lbs, Danville, California, #49) is the freshman defender that’s most likely to earn playing time this season. During his career at Monte Vista High School, Miks had 265 ground balls and 147 caused turnovers. That’s a lot! He also had 69 points, which is really a lot if he was exclusively playing close defense, and it also indicates that he might have a bit of a talent for passing the ball in transition, too.

Connor Coutu (5’10”, 175 lbs, Upton, Massachusetts, #19) was a senior year captain for a Deerfield Academy team that was ranked in the national top 25. Ranked by whom? Dunno, his MU bio doesn’t tell me, and I’m not trying to figure that out without more clues. Still cool, though. Brock Duerring (5’10”, 185 lbs, Washington, New Jersey, #28) was a three time team captain for Warren Hills High School, but he’s not nearly as interesting as his twin brother Dylan, who we’ll get to in a minute.

FACEOFF

I can’t tell you if either of Marquette’s freshman faceoff guys are going to get much of a chance to contribute right away. That’s the downside of bringing back every single draw attempt from last season and two guys who won more than half of their attempts at that. However, Justin Daubert (5’7”, 155 lbs, Spring City, Pennsylvania, #25) has an interesting case to make for getting a chance. He set an Owen Roberts High School record with 864 faceoff wins during his career there and was an all-state draw specialist twice. Those 864 wins led to 560 ground balls….which, at least according to his Marquette bio, is somehow not a team record. That’s surprising, to be honest. Daubert also had 73 goals and 45 assists by way of all of those faceoff wins, but it’s hard to say that the ability to win and finish like that is going to translate to Division 1, especially right away. With that said, Daubert also set a high school team record in football for interceptions with eight, and between his time as a defensive back and a wide receiver, he had 1,710 yards, nine touchdowns, and 86 tackles.

I can’t tell you anything about Jack Schwartz (Naperville, Illinois, #29) because “No information available” is the extent of his team bio. Not even a “definitely played high school lacrosse” like Johnstone Clark. He doesn’t even have a height or weight listed! His Instagram has a picture of him committing to Marquette in August of 2025, so it seems like he’s a late addition to the team here.

GOALIE

I teased Dylan Duerring (5’10”, 185 lbs, Washington, New Jersey, #54) a moment ago, so let’s pay that off. Brock’s twin brother was a four year starter in net for Warren Hills, and made 970 saves while posting a save percentage of .640 for his career. That is, uh, very good. He was first team all-New Jersey as a junior, he had two goals and seven assists — AS A GOALIE, REMEMBER — and also posted four shutouts. I presume that the starting goalie job belongs to Lucas Lawas, but I’m definitely curious as to whether or not Duerring can push him for that spot this year or if Duerring is merely the goalie of the future for the Golden Eagles.

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