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	#10 - Ryan Smith
	Class: Senior Height/Weight: 5-10, 175     Hometown: Fallston, Md. Position: A     High School: Fallston/CCBC-Essex

Accolades: Earned Honorable Mention All America honors in his first season at UMBC… Also named America East First-Team All-Conference performer… Selected America East Men’s Lacrosse Player of the Week on both March 31 and April 13...Named to 2009 the Inside Lacrosse preseason All-America team (honorable mention).  

2008: Tied with Matt Latham as team leader with 29 goals and finished second on the America East champion Retrievers with 42 points… Finished fifth in the conference in goals per game and seventh in points per game… Collected 21 points in five America East games… His season was cut short as he suffered a torn ACL just 76 seconds into the America East title game on May 3… Is expected to be at full strength for his senior campaign… Hit the scoreboard in every game until the league championship and earned multiple points on 11 occasions… Debuted with a team high three goals vs. Delaware on Feb. 16… Scored two goals each in games vs. nationally-ranked Denver and top-ranked Johns Hopkins… Fired home the game-tying goal with 5.6 seconds left in regulation in an eventual triple overtime win over Maryland… Recorded a six-point game (three goals, three assists) in a double-overtime win at Ohio State… In the conference opener vs. Stony Brook, he scored three goals and added a pair of helpers… Registered a personal season-best and 2008 UMBC season-high eight-point effort, with five goals and three assists (also a season high) in an April 12 win over Albany… Scored the game-winning goal 53 seconds into overtime vs. Binghamton in the America East semifinals… A hard-riding attackman who caused six turnovers and collected 38 ground balls.   

Background: Majoring in American studies... A junior college All American at CCBC-Essex in both 2006 and 2007… Earned First Team All County honors at Fallston in 2004 and 2005… Also received All County honors in basketball… Enjoys Maryland crabs and hunting…  … One of four siblings… Son of Cheryl Falense and Greg Smith… Born Sept. 29, 1989.