Bio

For a men’s lacrosse goalkeeper who would go on to be a three-time Division III All-American, Reeves Craig certainly had a somewhat unexceptional first season at Goucher. As a freshman in 2002, he was the back-up to senior and four-year starter Michael Amash (1999-2002) and appeared in only 10 games.

The following year, Craig inherited Amash’s spot in the starting line-up. “With Reeves, our goalie position appears to be in very capable hands,” commented Kyle Hannan, who at the time was in his third season as the head men’s lacrosse coach at Goucher. “

Hannan was correct.

Over the next three seasons, Craig was the starting goalkeeper for the Gophers in all 48 games they played. In fact, he played every minute of all 16 games in 2003. In the final game that year, a 12-5 loss to Salisbury in the semifinals of the Capital Athletic Conference’s postseason tournament, he stopped 20 shots to boost his total for the season to 209 saves. He broke the single-season school records for goals against average (5.95) and save percentage (.683).

As a reward, he was selected first-team goalkeeper on the 2003 All-CAC Men’s Lacrosse Team and became the first player in the 12-year history of the institution’s men’s lacrosse program to earn All-America honors when he was named an honorable mention on the 2003 STX/United States Intercollegiate Lacrosse Association Division III All-America Team.

“There’s absolutely no doubt in my mind that he’s one of the top Division III goalies in the nation and he certainly deserved to be an All-American after the season he had,” said Hannan.

Craig repeated as the first-team All-CAC goalkeeper and a USILA honorable mention All-American in 2004 when he finished with a .713 save percentage, the second-highest in the nation in Division III. In the first game that season, he made a career-high 34 saves against Virginia Wesleyan; by the end of the year, he was already one of only three players at his position in program history with more than 500 career saves.

The head coaches picked Craig as the CAC’s top goalkeeper for the third year in a row in 2005 when he made 193 saves and compiled a 7.73 goals against average. He went on to claim Division III All-America recognition as an honorable mention from the USILA for the third time and was selected to represent Goucher in the prestigious STX/Geico Division III North/South All-Star game.

To this day, Craig remains Goucher’s and the CAC’s all-time leader with a career save percentage of .669. He ranks second in school history behind Amash with 709 career saves and behind Chris Stricklin (2008-10) with a career 6.95 goals against average.

“Reeves had an absolutely sensational career at Goucher and played a huge role in getting our program to the level it has achieved,” Hannan was quoted as saying in a preview of his 2006 squad. “Now we have to move on. One of our biggest challenges this year will be trying to find an adequate replacement for him.”