Mitchell Dye Belisle (born November 9, 1985) is an American former professional

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player for the

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and former player for the

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in the

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. Belisle represented the United States in the 2014 FIL World Championship and the 2011 FIL World Indoor Championship.

Collegiate career

Belisle is a graduate of

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and a member of the Cornell Athletics Hall of Fame. As a senior he was awarded the

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as the nation's top defender. He also received First-team All-American team honors, and was named to his second All-Ivy League team while leading the Big Red to the

2007 NCAA Division I Men's Lacrosse Championship The 2007 NCAA Division I lacrosse tournament was the 37th annual tournament hosted by the National Collegiate Athletic Association to determine the team champion of men's college lacrosse among its Division I programs, held at the end of the 20 ...

Final Four. As a junior, he was awarded Cornell's "C.F. Morse Lacrosse Scholar-Athlete of the Year Award." Belisle was elected to the

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, the oldest senior society at Cornell.

Professional career

Belisle was selected by the

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as a second round selection (12th overall) in the 2007

Collegiate Draft. The New York Titans drafted Belisle in the First Round (13th overall) in the 2007 National Lacrosse League Entry Draft. In Week 13 of the

2008 NLL season The 2008 National Lacrosse League season, the 22nd in the history of the NLL, began on December 29, 2007, and concluded with the Buffalo Bandits winning the championship game over the Portland LumberJax on May 17, 2008. In an odd coincidence, a ...

, Belisle scored his first and second career goals, and was awarded "Transition Player of the Week" honors. Belisle joined the

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for their inaugural season during the

2009 NLL season The 2009 National Lacrosse League season, the 23rd in the history of the NLL, began January 3, 2009 in Buffalo, Portland, and Sunrise, Florida, and concluded with the Calgary Roughnecks defeating the New York Titans 12—10 in the Champion's C ...

. During the season, he was named a reserve to the

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. He played in the 2012 and 2013 NLL seasons for the

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. He was listed Inactive: Protected Player on December 7, 2013 and missed the 2014 NLL season. He returned to the Swarm for the 2015 and 2016 seasons. In addition to his professional career as a player, Belisle serves as the Director of Marketing for Trilogy Lacrosse, a leading lacrosse education organization based in Brooklyn, New York.

Statistics

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References

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