Bio
Another versatile offensive performer for UMBC, who possesses the size and strength to be a factor around the cage and the finesse to contribute from the perimeter...has fought off persistent injuries and appears ready to have his best season in 2003.
AT UMBC: Came on down the stretch for UMBC last season...scored just two points in the team’s first nine games, but erupted in a two-goal, two-assist (career best) effort in UMBC’s 15-9 win over Army...played inside on the man-up unit, contributing a goal and helping UMBC to a 3/3 extra-man effort on the day...scored single goals in the final two games of the season vs. Stony Brook and Maryland...in 2001, he returned to competition after a year away due to injury...received substantial playing time and contributed four goals and two assists, usually as part of UMBC’s second midfield unit...his best effort occured late in the season, when he led UMBC with a pair of goals vs. Army...was given a medical red-shirt season in 2000 after suffering a lacerated tendon in his right foot in the fall of 1999...saw significant playing time as a freshman in 1999...saw action in all 15 games...his second goal of the season was UMBC’s 169th and final of the season, the 11th goal in UMBC’s first round NCAA game vs. Delaware...recorded a goal vs. Radford and an assist vs. Fairfield.
BACKGROUND: The Delaware News Journal’s Player of the Year in 1998...also a two-time All-State selection and team Most Valuable Player...led the Vikings to a 1998 state title with a perfect 19-0 record...scored five goals and added four assists in a win over two-time defending state champion Caesar Rodney HS...also a two-time all state soccer player at Cape Henlopen...suffered a broken leg during his sophomore soccer season and missed the spring lacrosse campaign...attended UMBC “to play for great coaches and get a good education”...did not start playing lacrosse until age 15...father, Donn, played high school soccer and now coaches at the high school level...a fan of the Philadelphia Flyers....son of Jan and Donn Steele and has two younger brothers, David (21) and Daniel (11)...born January 14, 1980.
