LAKELAND, Fla. – Seniors Jeff Atlas and Kevin Horwitz of the No. 11 Florida Southern men's lacrosse program have been selected to participate in the 2022 USILA Division I/II Senior All-Star Game which will take place tomorrow night, May 27 at 7:30 p.m. in Providence, R.I.
 
Atlas and Horwitz become the third and fourth Mocs in program history to earn an invitation to the event. The pair join Moccasin alumni D.J. Lubs (2010-14) and Matt Lalli (2014-17) as the only four Mocs to compete in the USILA Division I/II Senior All-Star Game. Lubs competed in 2014 while Lalli along with head coach Marty Ward participated in 2017. Lalli competed on the team while Ward served as the coach.
 
In total 58 senior student-athletes among all Division I and Division II programs were selected to compete on the North and South Teams. Atlas and Horwitz will be two of the 29 members of the South All-Star Team which is made up of 11 Division I athletes and 18 Division II members. Six members of the Sunshine State Conference will be in attendance as Horwitz and Atlas represent Florida Southern, Daniel Luette and Xander Cozensa will represent Lynn while Matt Hill and Justin Williams will be in attendance from Florida Tech.
 
The coaching staff from Division I VMI will need the South squad while the North is being headed up by the St. Anselm coaching staff.  
 
Atlas was recently named a Third Team USILA All-American to go along with his USA Lacrosse Magazine Third Team All-American selection. He entered 2022 as a two-time All-SSC Second Team selection and was a 2021 USILA/Warrior and New Balance Preseason All-American Honorable Mention. Following his 2022 season he was named First Team All-Sunshine State Conference, CoSIDA Academic All-District At-Large and USILA Second Team All-South Region. He had a record-breaking 2022 season where he snapped both the single season and career assists and points records at Florida Southern while leading the conference in assists and ranking second in points per game. He averaged a league best 2.72 assists per contest and 5.17 points per game. His 2.44 goals per game ranked fifth in the conference. Atlas also ranks fifth in the entire NCAA Division II in assists per game and seventh in points per game. He had at least one point in every contest in 2022 including a season-best 10 points at Flagler and versus Embry-Riddle at home. He dished out a season-best seven assists at Belmont Abbey and scored a season-high six goals at Flagler.
 
Horwitz, a First Team All-SSC, USILA Second Team All-South Region and USILA Third Team All-American selection in 2022, was a two-time Second Team All-SSC selection heading into 2022. He, similar to Atlas, had a record-breaking season where he broke both the single season and career records for ground balls and faceoffs won. He currently leads the conference in faceoff winning percentage at .655 while ranking second in ground balls per game with 10.50. He also ranks among the leaders in all of NCAA Division II in both categories. He is fourth in ground balls per game and eighth in faceoff winning percentage. This season he scooped up a school record 172 ground balls to bring his career total to a record of 444. He also won a school record 294 faceoffs and now has a career record 856 wins in his career. He scooped up a season-best 18 ground balls at Belmont Abbey and won a season-high 25 faceoffs versus Lynn. He became just the third men's lacrosse student-athlete in conference history to earn five weekly awards in one season and the 44th student-athlete in any conference sport as he was named Specialist of the Week five times throughout 2022.
 
For more information on the USILA North-South All-Star Game, visit the USILA's official website at www.usila.org. The game will be streamed live tomorrow night on Lax Sports Network.