The Georgia Swarm are an American professional

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team based in the

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that competes in the

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(NLL). They have been playing at the 13,000-seat Gas South Arena since their 2016 season.

Team history

Originally formed as the 2002 expansion Montreal Express, the owners of the

Minnesota Swarm The Minnesota Swarm was a box lacrosse team in the National Lacrosse League who played at the Xcel Energy Center in Saint Paul, Minnesota from 2004 until 2015. The team's previous owners (Minnesota Sports & Entertainment) who also own the NHL's ...

purchased the inactive Express franchise from the NLL to create the Swarm in 2004. They played at the

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from 2004 until 2015. On May 22, 2015, team owner John Arlotta announced that the

did not renew the contract for the team. Instead of negotiating for a new lease, the Swarm began looking for potential relocation sites and eventually chose the

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metro area. In 2017 the Swarm won the NLL championship title against the defending

Saskatchewan Rush The Saskatchewan Rush are a Canadian professional box lacrosse team based in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, that competes in the National Lacrosse League (NLL). The team plays its home games at SaskTel Centre. Formerly the Edmonton Rush, the team has ...

2–0 in a best of three series.

Current roster

Head coaching history

''Note: This list does not include coaches from the Minnesota Swarm.''

Awards and honors

''Note: This list does not include awards from the Minnesota Swarm'' Note: Mike Poulin's 2020 Teammate of the year award was a tie with Dan Dawson of the Toronto Rock.

All-time record

Playoff results

Draft history

NLL entry draft

First-round selections *

2015 2015 was designated by the United Nations as: * International Year of Light * International Year of Soil __TOC__ Events January * January 1 – Lithuania officially adopts the euro as its currency, replacing the litas, and becomes ...

: Lyle Thompson (1st overall), Chad Tutton (5th overall), Randy Staats (6th overall) *

2016 2016 was designated as: * International Year of Pulses by the sixty-eighth session of the United Nations General Assembly. * International Year of Global Understanding (IYGU) by the International Council for Science (ICSU), the Internationa ...

: Bryan Cole (4th overall), Connor Sellars (10th overall) *

2017 2017 was designated as the International Year of Sustainable Tourism for Development by the United Nations General Assembly. Events January * January 1 – Istanbul nightclub shooting: A gunman dressed as Santa Claus opens fire at the ...

: Zed Williams (4th overall) *

2018 Events January * January 1 – Bulgaria takes over the Presidency of the Council of the European Union, after the Estonian presidency. * January 4 – SPLM-IO rebels loyal to Chan Garang Lual start a raid against Juba, capital of ...

: Brendan Bomberry (7th overall), Adam Wiedemann (8th overall) *

2019 This was the year in which the first known human case of COVID-19 was documented, preceding COVID-19 pandemic, the pandemic which was declared by the World Health Organization the following year. Up to that point, 2019 had been described as ...

: Kason Tarbell (11th overall), Ryan MacSpadyen (13th overall) *

2020 The year 2020 was heavily defined by the COVID-19 pandemic, which led to global Social impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, social and Economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, economic disruption, mass cancellations and postponements of even ...

: Robert Hudson (6th overall), Jeff Henrick (8th overall), Ethan Walker (10th overall), Laine Hruska (13th overall) *

2021 Like the year 2020, 2021 was also heavily defined by the COVID-19 pandemic, due to the emergence of multiple Variants of SARS-CoV-2, COVID-19 variants. The major global rollout of COVID-19 vaccines, which began at the end of 2020, continued ...

: Ryan Lanchbury (2nd overall) *

2022 The year began with another wave in the COVID-19 pandemic, with SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant, Omicron spreading rapidly and becoming the dominant variant of the SARS-CoV-2 virus worldwide. Tracking a decrease in cases and deaths, 2022 saw ...

: Brett Dobson (11th overall), Brady Kearnan (20th overall) *

2023 Catastrophic natural disasters in 2023 included the Lists of 21st-century earthquakes, 5th-deadliest earthquake of the 21st century 2023 Turkey–Syria earthquakes, striking Turkey and Syria, leaving up to 62,000 people dead; Cyclone Freddy ...

: Toron Eccleston (6th overall), Jacob Hickey (8th overall), Kaleb Benedict (19th overall) *

2024 The year saw the list of ongoing armed conflicts, continuation of major armed conflicts, including the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the Myanmar civil war (2021–present), Myanmar civil war, the Sudanese civil war (2023–present), Sudane ...

: Michael Grace (3rd overall), Alex Bean (11th overall)

Notes

References

External links

Official Website
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