Timbermen Recruit Ready for New Season

It wasn’t hard for the Nanaimo Timbermen to convince Morgan Mitchell to sign with the team. The teen from Yellow Point committed last month to play for the British Columbia Junior A Lacrosse League club in 2008.

It was an easy decision -- his dad Forbes is co-general manager of the club. Regardless, Morgan said he likes the direction the team is headed. “I feel that Nanaimo is a good team that has a lot of potential,” he said.

“There’s a good group of young kids coming up and there’s older guys that have been there before.” Mitchell, a two-way player and faceoff specialist, was a point-a-game player with Nanaimo’s intermediate A squad in 2007 and was an alternate captain on that team. Lacrosse talent runs in the family.

Morgan’s older brother Sterling is captain of the Nanaimo Timbermen senior A team. The junior A club doesn’t have to worry about Morgan keeping in shape in the off-season – he’s keeping himself plenty busy. 

Last Wednesday he left for Edinburgh, Scotland to try out for that country’s U19 field lacrosse team. (Morgan is eligible to play for the team because Forbes was born there.)

“I think I have a good chance of making the team; I’m not really sure of what calibre of players they’ll have over there,” he said. “I play the body hard –a lot of American players don’t do that as much and European players are not known to do that, either.”

The British Columbia Junior A Lacrosse League season gets underway April 27. Yellow Point teen says he likes lacrosse team’s new direction.