Kyle Harrison (lacrosse)
Kyle Harrison (born March 12, 1983) is an American entrepreneur and retired professional lacrosse player. He now serves as the PLL Director of Player Relations and Diversity Inclusion. He had a seventeen year career in professional field lacrosse, and played for the US national lacrosse team twice. As a college lacrosse player at Johns Hopkins University, he played at the two-way midfield position and also took face-offs. He was a team captain on the 2005 team that went undefeated (16-0) to win the NCAA Division I Men's Lacrosse Championship. The same year, he won the Tewaaraton Men's Player of the Year Award. As a professional lacrosse player, he was a 9-time all-star, 12-time team captain, and won the 2017 championship.
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| Born | March 12, 1983 Baltimore, Maryland, U.S. | |||||||||||||||||
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| Height | 6 ft 1 in (1.85 m) | |||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 205 pounds (93 kg) | |||||||||||||||||
| Shoots | Right | |||||||||||||||||
| Position | Midfielder | |||||||||||||||||
| NCAA team | Johns Hopkins University lacrosse (2005) | |||||||||||||||||
| MLL draft | 1st overall, 2005 New Jersey Pride | |||||||||||||||||
| MLL teams | New Jersey Pride Los Angeles Riptide Denver Outlaws Ohio Machine | |||||||||||||||||
| PLL teams | Redwoods L.C. | |||||||||||||||||
| Pro career | 2005–21 | |||||||||||||||||
| Nickname | K18 | |||||||||||||||||
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In late 2009, Kyle Harrison left the Major League Lacrosse (MLL) league to co-found the LXM Pro Tour league, a distinct professional men's field lacrosse league, which was active in 2010 until 2014, when it announced partnership with the MLL. In 2016, Kyle was inducted into the Johns Hopkins University Athletics Hall of Fame, the USA Lacrosse Greater Baltimore Chapter Hall of Fame, and the Baltimore Hall of Fame. He retired from professional lacrosse in 2021. In 2023, he was inducted into the National Lacrosse Hall of Fame.
He is credited with pioneering the jumpshot, his signature move, which is his lacrosse adaption of the basketball jumpshot. Additionally, he is credited with popularizing the fake-and-split dodge, also known as the hitch-and-split dodge, also a signature move, which originated as a lacrosse adaption of the Allen Iverson crossover. Kyle is widely regarded as one of the greatest lacrosse players of all time. He is also widely considered one of the most successful and decorated lacrosse players of all time. He is renowned for his athleticism, explosiveness, shooting on the run, versatility and leadership.
Harrison has also been a distinguished role model for the next generation of lacrosse players, especially within the African-American community. In July 2020, he co-founded the Black Lacrosse Alliance, which seeks to push the culture of lacrosse forward to become more inclusive and inspire a more diverse generation of lacrosse players.