Kyle Sweeney

Kyle Sweeney (born April 5, 1981, in Springfield, Pennsylvania) is an American professional lacrosse player who plays for the New York Lizards in Major League Lacrosse. He is the vice president of sports nutrition at Medifast, and co-founder of the Gotham Lacrosse League.

Sweeney played for the U.S. Men's National Team in the 2006 and 2010 World Lacrosse Championship, and played for Team USA in the 2007 World Indoor Lacrosse Championship.

Personal Sweeney is a native of Springfield, Pennsylvania. He is from an athletic family: both his father, Jack, and mother, Denise, are gym teachers, and his brother was an All American athlete in high school. He began playing lacrosse in middle school for the Springfield Athletic Association, and moved on to the Springfield Cougars Lacrosse Club in high school, where he received All-American honors and was the All-Central League MVP. He also played football and basketball.

Sweeney married Angela Lanzafama in 2011.

Collegiate career Sweeney attended Georgetown University's McDonough School of Business, where he was a three-time All-American long-stick midfielder. As a freshman, he was awarded the 2000 ECAC Rookie of the Year. He was also named Two-time ECAC Defensive Player of the Year in 2002 and 2001, and was named to the All-ECAC First Team three times. Academically, he was a double major in international business and marketing as well as minor concentration in sociology.

Sweeney was inducted into the National Lacrosse Hall of Fame in 2023.

Professional lacrosse career Major League Lacrosse Sweeney was selected by the Bridgeport Barrage in the 2003 Collegiate Draft, Round 3. He followed the team when it moved from Bridgeport, Connecticut, to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in 2003. Sweeney anchored the defensive unit that helped the Barrage win the MLL championship in 2004, 2006 and 2007. When the team folded in 2008, Sweeney moved to Washington Bayhawks for one game, then over to the Boston Cannons, which he led to win the 2011 MLL Championships. In 2014 he moved back to the Bayhawks, which relocated in Chesapeake. In 2017, he began playing for the New York Lizards.

After a fifteen-year career, Sweeney announced his retirement from Major League Lacrosse on August 31, 2017.

National League Lacrosse The Philadelphia Wings drafted Sweeney in the eighth round (83rd overall) of the 2003 NLL Entry Draft. He followed the team when it moved to Connecticut, changing its name to the New England Black Wolves. He retired from indoor play in 2015.

International career Sweeney played for the U.S. Men's National Team in the 2006 and 2010. In 2010, his team won the World Lacrosse Championship in Manchester.

Business career Sweeney was the chief operating officer for Maverick Lacrosse, a New York-based lacrosse equipment manufacturer, from 2005 to 2010. He then moved to Performance Sports Group, where he worked as Vice president of operations and product development until 2013, when he became vice president of marketing and business planning. He left in 2016 to become vice president of sports nutrition at Medifast.

Sweeney co-founded the Gotham Lacrosse League, an elite men's summer league in New York City, with Billy Pymm in 2007. The league expanded to include an elite women's league in 2013.

Statistics Major League Lacrosse (MLL) Regular Season Playoffs Season Team GP G 2ptG A Pts GB PIM GP G 2ptG A Pts GB PIM 2003 Bridgeport5001115 1 - - - - - - - 2004 Philadelphia 12201347 4 - - - - - - - 2005 Philadelphia 12102344 1 - - - - - - - 2006 Philadelphia 11100132 3 2 1 0 0 1 2 0 2007 Philadelphia 12502729 0 2 1 0 0 1 5 0 2008 Philadelphia 11504947 1 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 2009 Washington 100003 3 - - - - - - - 2009 Boston 119041357 3 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 2010 Boston 10501436 1 1 0 0 1 1 3 0 2011 Boston 9202421 2 2 0 0 1 1 4 0 2012 Boston 14305832 3 1 1 0 0 1 2 0 2013 Boston 14403735 1 - - - - - - - 2014 Boston 13300325 1 - - - - - - - 2015 Chesapeake 13100122 2 - - - - - - - 2016 Chesapeake 8001122 1 - - - - - - - 2016 New York 5000018.5 - - - - - - - MLL Totals 161 41 0 26 65 48536.510 3 0 2 5 18 0

National League Lacrosse (NLL) Regular Season Playoffs Season Team GP G A Pts LB PIM GP G A Pts LB PIM 2005 Philadelphia 12 1 6 7 53 11 - - - - - - 2006 Philadelphia 15 4 9 13 91 8 - - - - - - 2007 Philadelphia 16 4 7 11 85 6 - - - - - - 2008 Philadelphia 16 5 20 25 127 4 1 0 1 1 3 0 2009 Philadelphia 16 7 18 25 130 6 - - - - - - 2010 Philadelphia 15 4 6 10 90 4 - - - - - - 2011 Edmonton 6 1 7 8 24 2 - - - - - - 2011 Philadelphia 9 2 0 2 43 0 - - - - - - 2012 Buffalo 5 0 2 2 20 4 - - - - - - 2013 Philadelphia 9 2 5 7 37 4 1 0 1 1 0 0 2014 Philadelphia 18 2 12 14 53 18 - - - - - - NLL totals 180 32 92 124 753 67 2 0 2 2 3 0

NCAA Season Team GP G A Pts GB 2000 Georgetown 14 2 4 6 61 2001 Georgetown 15 0 0 0 60 2002 Georgetown 15 5 4 9 75 2003 Georgetown 11 0 1 1 33 NCAA Totals 55 7 9 16 229