| UMass Lowell Riverhawks 2012/2013 Recruiting Information (Stats through games as of 12/16/09) |
| This will be Coach Blaise MacDonald's twelfth recruiting class at UML. As this is being written in November of 2009, it's very early and things may change, but currently we expect there to be 6 seniors graduating during the summer of 2012: Forwards Michael Budd, Matt Ferreira, Michael Scheu and David Vallorani, along with defenseman Tim Corcoran and goaltender Michael Heffrom. Players that have signed an NLI (National Letter of Intent) will be highlighted in red. Players in this class cannot sign an NLI till November of 2011. |
For the 2011 recruiting class, UML had received their earliest ever commitment from William Eiserman in July of 2009 (2 years and 2 months before his first UML class). The 2012 class got their first commitment even earlier, almost three years before the youngster steps foot officially on UML's campus ... and the name's a familiar one. William Eiserman's younger brother, goaltender Chris Eiserman, also of the New Hampshire Junior Monarchs (EJHL) committed to UML on October 30th, 2009. As we had mentioned here at UMLHockey.com after William's commitment a few months ago, there was a good chance Chris would follow in his footsteps. We'll have more on him later, but for now a rather promising article posted thanks to USHR about the Newburyport, Mass., native who is currently 16 years old (born 7/28/93) but already stands 6'3, 210 pounds. US Hockey Report states about Chris, "The youngest Eiserman’s commitment to Lowell today came quicker than anyone expected. He had visited UMass-Amherst, but if he had waited a host of schools would have gotten involved. It’s just not common these days for 16-year-old goalies who were playing high school a year ago to commit at the Div. I level. Eiserman, is, in our eyes, an exceptional recruit, with more upside than anyone we’ve seen Lowell land in a good long time. He’s huge, quick, athletic, fills up the net, stops pucks, smothers rebounds, and plays the puck like a third defenseman." Chris was on the Mass Select 16 team that played in June of 2008. He's currently sharing the job in goal with the Monarchs with BC bound Brian Billet (entering BC in 2010), but has still put up a rather impressive 2.70 GAA, 91.5% save rate and a 11-2 record (one of the losses being in a shootout). Welcome to the River Hawk family Chris ... not that you weren't already. |