St. Vincent Pallotti Grads Switch Roles at McDaniel College
Senior Matt Dean and sophomore Mike Marks reverse high school positions playing at Division III school.
When Mike Marks was a sophomore at St. Vincent Pallotti High in Laurel, he was used as the main faceoff player for the boys lacrosse team. One of his teammates that season was Matt Dean, who at the time was a senior defensive midfielder. Now, four years later, their roles have been reversed at Division III McDaniel College in Carroll County. Dean, a senior midfielder at McDaniel, has been the main faceoff guy for the Green Terror the past two seasons while Marks is a sophomore defensive midfielder. "When we were playing in high school, he was just a defensive midfielder," Marks said. "He didn't know anything about faceoffs. At Pallotti, I was the main faceoff guy. When he came to McDaniel he was not playing right away. He started facing …
