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2024 Men's Lacrosse Roster

55 Owen Murphy

  • Height 6-0
  • Weight 182
  • Class Senior
  • Position A/M
  • Major Sociology
  • Hometown Medfield, MA
  • High School Avon Old Farms (CT)
  • Prev School Johns Hopkins
  • Instagram ocmurphy11
  • Opendorse 942x_6n3x?code=942X_6n3X

Biography

HONORS
• 2023 Academic All-Big Ten

As a Senior in 2024:
• Appeared in 16 games, missing one due to injury
• Totaled 12 points on seven goals and five assists with four groundballs

As a Junior in 2023: 
• Finished fifth on the team in points (27) and goals (18). 
• Played in all 16 games, making three starts.
• Posted four multi-goal and nine multi-point games

As a Sophomore in 2022: 
• Finished season third on team with 34 goals and seventh on team with 39 points.
• Posted multi-goal games 11 times with high of four four times
• Multiple points in 11 of 18 games with high of five against his former school. 
• Transferred to Maryland after not competing during the 2021 season.
• Scored two goals in less than 10 seconds of NCAA Semifinals victory over Princeton (5/28).

As a Freshman at Johns Hopkins in 2020:
• 
Talented freshman attackman who played in all six games with three starts…
• Finished second on the team in points (13), third in goals (8) and tied for second in assists (5)...
• Came off the bench to score one goal and add one assist in season-opening win against Towson - scored goal on first career shot early in first quarter and assisted on what proved to be the game-winning goal early in the third quarter…
• Fired home the first hat trick of his career with three goals at Princeton. 
• Added second career hat track and added one assist for a personal-best four points against top-ranked Syracuse…
• Tallied one goal and career-best three assists to fuel a 13-12 overtime win against Mount St. Mary's in the team's final game of the season, scored the OT game-winner against Mount St. Mary's to become the first JHU freshman since 2015 to score an overtime goal (Joel Tinney vs. Penn State in 2015); Just the seventh Johns Hopkins freshman since 1975 to score an overtime goal.

Before College:
• Played lacrosse and hockey at Avon Old Farms in Avon, Connecticut.
• Ranked as the No. 43 freshman in the nation by Inside Lacrosse in 2020.
• Ranked as the No. 12 freshman attackman in the nation by Inside Lacrosse in 2020.
• Finished four-year high school career with 169 goals and 175 assists.
• Totaled 101 goals and 88 assists in two varsity lacrosse seasons at Avon Old Farms.
• US Lacrosse All-American as a senior and a two-time New England West All-League pick
• Spent first two years at Medfield High School in Medfield, Massachusetts and punched up 68 goals and 87 assists.
• Played two years of hockey at both Avon and Medfield and two years of golf at Medfield.

Personal:
• Son of Debbie and Bill Murphy.
• Has two older brothers, Will and Griffin, and a younger brother, Luke.
• Father played baseball at Northeastern University in 1986 and 1987.

CAREER HIGHS

Points: 5 vs. Johns Hopkins (4/23/22)
Goals: 4 (5x), last vs Richmond (2/4/23)
Assists: 3 vs Mount St. Mary's (3/10/20)
Groundballs: 3 at Princeton (2/25/23)
Hat Tricks: 11, last at Johns Hopkins (5/4/23)
Shots: 9 (3x), last vs. Notre Dame (3/4/23)
Multi-Point Games: 26, last vs. Penn State (5/2/24)
Multi-Goal Games: 16, last at Johns Hopkins (5/4/23)
Multi-Assist Games: 3, last vs. Army (5/13/23)

Statistics

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Historical Player Information

  • 55

    2022Sophomore

    Attack
    6'0" 155 lbs
    55
  • 55

    2023Junior

    Attack
    6'0" 182 lbs
    55
  • 55

    2024Senior

    Attack/Midfield
    6'0" 182 lbs
    55