Other: Kyle Harrison (born March 12, 1983) is an American entrepreneur and retired professional lacrosse player.
As a college lacrosse player at Johns Hopkins University, he played at the two-way midfield position and also took face-offs.
[20][21] Harrison has also been a distinguished role model for the next generation of lacrosse players, especially within the African-American community.
At the Friends School, Harrison was a standout tri-athlete playing soccer, basketball and lacrosse.
In his senior year of high school, he totaled 52 points, scoring 24 goals, netting 28 assists and scooping over 100 ground balls.
He was recruited to play NCAA Division 1 lacrosse on the Johns Hopkins Blue Jays men's lacrosse team after performing well at recruiting camps the summer of his junior year of high school.
Harrison attended school with best friend Benson Erwin since the second grade, with whom he won the 3 lacrosse championships.
[29] Upon graduation from the Friend's School in 2001, the two continued on to play as teammates on the lacrosse team at Johns Hopkins University.
In 2005, the New York Times described Harrison as "lacrosse's most prominent African-American star since Jim Brown was a first-team all-American at Syracuse in 1957".
Historian Bruce Nelson stated that that year's "presence of Kyle Harrison, Johnny Christmas and Harry Alford are indicative of the changes that are occurring".
In the season-opener game against defending national champion Princeton, Harrison scored two goals in an 8–5 upset.
In an 11–10 OT victory against North Carolina, he scored a career-high three goals, including the game-winner.
Harrison also played alongside freshman Paul Rabil on this 2005 team, who would continue on to win the 2007 NCAA Division I Men's Lacrosse Championship and the 2007 McLaughlin Award.
More than 15 years after graduating, he remains the only Johns Hopkins player to win the Tewaaraton Award.
Harrison netted a collegiate career total of 126 points, scoring 81 goals and 45 assists.
Since joining the Riptide, Harrison has played in the 2008 MLL All-Star Game,[37] and helped the Riptide return to the postseason as a third seed in the NB ZIP MLL Championship Weekend to play for the Steinfeld Cup.
The team reached the final round of the 2006 World Lacrosse Championship, but lost to Canada.
Kyle Harrison was a defensive midfielder on the 2014 United States national lacrosse team.
The team reached the final round of the 2014 World Lacrosse Championship, but lost to Canada.
[48] Most notably, Kyle Harrison has had a contract with STX for his K18 equipment line that has been adopted as the official gear by many college programs.
[49] Also, right of out of college, Kyle Harrison had a Nike sponsorship manufacturing various sportswear and lacrosse apparel.
In 2013, Beats Electronics had personalized custom headphones designed for a select few of celebrities, LeBron James, Wayne Rooney, Justin Bieber, Kobe Bryant, Lady Gaga and Kyle Harrison.
Kyle Harrison's personalized headphones had writing in Hopkins blue of the K18 logo, 16–0 (the 2005 lacrosse team undefeated record), 'Finish Strong', 'LXM PRO', and '2005' on it.