Professional career
Shattler was drafted 10th overall by the Buffalo Bandits in 2005. He played one game in 2006 for the Bandits before being traded to Calgary Roughnecks, Calgary for the 2007 season. Shattler played 11 seasons with the Roughnecks, missing only one game. During the 2009 NLL season, he was named a reserve in the National Lacrosse League All-Star Game, All-Star Game. Shattler had a breakout year in 2011 NLL season, 2011, when he was named both NLL National Lacrosse League MVP Award, MVP and National Lacrosse League Transition Player of the Year Award, Transition Player of the Year. On August 3, 2017, he signed a two-year contract with the Saskatchewan Rush. Shattler has played for the Brampton Excelsiors (MSL), Brampton Excelsiors and Six Nations Chiefs of Major Series Lacrosse and the Victoria Shamrocks and the Maple Ridge Burrards of the Western Lacrosse Association (WLA). Shattler was the Most Outstanding Player in the WLA in 2013.NLL stats
Source:International career
Shattler has competed internationally with the Iroquois national indoor lacrosse team, Iroquois Nationals, the national box lacrosse team of the Iroquois confederacy, Iroquois Confederacy. By virtue of his First Nations status, it would have been possible for him to play for Canada national indoor lacrosse team, Canada, the United States men's national lacrosse team, United States, or the Nationals. About choosing to play with the Nationals, Shattler said, “It’s always been my culture... Probably my grandma [a full–status Ojibwa] would kill me if I did play for Team Canada.“ With the Nationals, Shattler won silver medals at the World Indoor Lacrosse Championships (WILC) in 2011 World Indoor Lacrosse Championship, 2011 and 2015 World Indoor Lacrosse Championship, 2015. He was named to the 2015 WLIC All World Team at the transition position.Awards and honours
* *Mann Cup, 2008 (with the Brampton Excelsiors) *National Lacrosse League Cup, NLL Champions Cup, 2009 NLL season, 2009 (with the Calgary Roughnecks) *WLA Most Outstanding Player, 2013 *National Lacrosse League Cup, NLL Cup, 2018 NLL season, 2018 (with the Saskatchewan Rush) *National Lacrosse League Cup#Most Valuable Players, NLL Cup Most Valuable Player, 2018Coaching and youth development
In February 2019, Shattler established the Shattler Lacrosse Academy, a privately owned elite lacrosse academy sanctioned by the Saskatchewan Lacrosse Association (SLA). In addition to organizing clinics and offering private training through his namesake academy, Shattler serves as Director of Player Development and Coaching for the Fighting Sioux lacrosse program of Standing Buffalo Dakota Nation, a role he has held since 2019. His is also involved in an effort to establish a nations cup between eight reserves in the Sanding Buffalo Dakota Nation and File Hills Qu’Appelle Tribal Council (FHQ) Treaty 4 area. He also dedicates time to clinics and programs that aim to expand opportunities for girls in lacrosse, including working once a month with Queens Lacrosse of Queen City Minor Box Lacrosse league (QCMBL), the first all-girls lacrosse team in Regina, Saskatchewan.Personal life
Shattler’s mother, Donna Lewis Babstock, is Ojibwa from Wiikwemkoong First Nation, Wiikwemkoong Unceded Territory. His father is Inuit, originally from northern Quebec. He is the second eldest of five siblings, having one older sister, three younger sisters Shattler played junior ice hockey with the Brampton Capitals of the Ontario Junior Hockey League in the 2003–04 OPJHL season, 2003–04 and 2004–05 OPJHL season, 2004–05 seasons and was offered a scholarship to play NCAA Division I hockey at Cornell University, Cornell. After a long talk with his sister, Cindy Shattler, he decided to focus exclusively on sport rather than pursue collegiate athletics and felt that lacrosse offered him better opportunities. He has called Cindy the most positive influence on him as a lacrosse player. Beginning early in his playing career, his maternal grandmother, Gene Waseigijig, encouraged him to play for “a native team” and he has cited her as one of the reasons he chose to compete internationally with the Iroquois Nationals rather than with the Canadian national team. One of his younger sisters, Kelly Babstock, plays ice hockey with the Metropolitan Riveters of the National Women's Hockey League, NWHL. Shattler resides in Regina, Saskatchewan, with his wife, Lindsay, and their children, Ada and Jace. He is a glazier by trade.References
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