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Team Captain

2012: Played in all 15 games … ranked fifth on team with a career-best eight goals … scored two goals each against Harvard (2/28), Mercer (3/6) and Navy (3/17) … picked up five ground balls … posted one caused turnover … member of the Holy Cross Leadership Academy.

2011: Played in all 15 games … recorded five goals and five assists for a career-best 10 points … also picked up a career-high six ground balls and caused a career-best three turnovers …posted two goals and one assist for three points in the win at Lafayette (4/9) … scored his first collegiate game-winning goal and also posted one assist for two points in the victory over Mercer (4/16) … netted one goal each in games against Army (4/23) and Marist (4/26).

2010: Played in 11 games … had two goals and one assist for three points … tallied his first collegiate point with an assist at Lehigh (3/27) … recorded his first collegiate goal in the win against Vermont (4/6) … scored a goal against Quinnipiac (4/17).

Before Holy Cross: Four-year member of the varsity lacrosse team at the Iona Preparatory School for coach Rick Trizano ... senior captain ... scored 200 career goals, the second-most ever at the school ... also had 90 career assists for 290 points ... as a junior, ranked sixth nationally with 75 goals ... earned first team All-League honors three times ... named the 2008 CHSAA Offensive Player of the Year, the 2009 Metropolitan Player of the Year and was a two-time All-America nominee ... 2009 All-Section All-Star ... team won the 2009 Class A state championship ... also a three-year member of the hockey team, totaling 10 goals and 12 assists for 22 points as a defender and being named the team’s 2009 Most Outstanding Defenseman ... member of National Honor Society and Spanish Honor Society.

Personal: Son of Myles and Kim Gillespie ... has one brother (Jack) and one sister (Caroline) ... both parents played lacrosse at Franklin & Marshall (Class of 1984) ... great grandfather graduated from Holy Cross in 1923 ... majoring in History.

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