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Dylan Molloy

School
Brown
Position
Attackman
Major
Business, Entrepreneurship and Organizations

Classroom

A CoSIDA third-team Academic All-American in 2016, Dylan Molloy has posted a 3.72 GPA, majoring in business, entrepreneurship and organizations.

Character

Faced with a potentially season-ending foot injury suffered in Brown’s first-round NCAA Tournament win over Johns Hopkins, Molloy refused to allow his season to end with a Jones fracture. He put in a Hurculean effort with treatment nearly 24/7 for the next two weeks, missing Brown’s NCAA quarterfinal win over Navy. Molloy went to the athletic trainers room instead of the practice field and stepped onto a playing field for the first time two weeks later against Maryland in the NCAA semifinals at Lincoln Financial Field in Philadelphia. Running on adrenaline, Molloy scored two goals against Maryland, playing on sheer will. He had surgery on his foot three days later and accepted the Tewaaraton Award the following day.

Community

Molloy was featured in a video promoting the WallBall Challenge, a summer-long crowd-sourced fundraiser to help support US Lacrosse First Stick Youth Lacrosse Program that helps grow the sport. The First Stick program seeks to expand participation beyond traditional boundaries and inspire kids to play hard, dream big and act responsibly within the sport of lacrosse and the game of life.

Molloy also is a participant and promoter through Brown lacrosse of the “Be The Match Bone Marrow Drive.” He helped direct and participated in the fundraiser for new library construction in Nepal through the Room to Read 36-hour Run. Molloy also has fundraised on behalf of the Ulman Cancer Fund and Syrian refugee children through the Brown Lacrosse 36 hour run and participated in the Rhode Island Blood Center Blood Drive from 2014-2016. He is a Brown Men’s Lacrosse Team IMPACT member.

Competition

Tewaaraton Trophy winner as the nation’s outstanding player in 2016 and USILA Player of the Year, Molloy also was the USILA Attackman of the Year. He led the nation in points (116) and assists (6.44 per game), and ranked third nationally in goals. He is a two-time Ivy League Player of the Year (2015, 2016) and first-team All-American (2016). His 116 points in 2016 are fourth in NCAA Lacrosse history, and he is just the sixth player in NCAA history to post at least 50 goals and 50 assists in a single season. Molloy is a two-time New England Player of the Year and is the nation’s active leading scorer with 247 points (as of nomination time).

In 2016 he helped lead Brown to the NCAA Final Four for the first time since 1994, and he is Brown’s all-time leader with 153 career goals. Molloy scored four goals and handed out four assists in Brown’s NCAA playoff win over Johns Hopkins and has registered at least one point in Brown’s last 36 games, a point streak that dates back to April 19, 2014.