Brett Dobson

Acquired: Selected No. 11 overall by the Swarm in the 2022 NLL Entry Draft (9/10/2022).

Career

NLL: Dobson was the runner up for the NLL Rookie of the Year Award in 2023 and was named to the All-Rookie team. During his first season in the NLL, Dobson played in all 18 games, earning the starting job four games in against Buffalo (01/14/23). The rookie ended the year with 555 saves, a .78 save percentage, and a 10.69 goals against average after logging 881:04 minutes in net.

International: Dobson is a member of the Canada men’s national lacrosse team. He represented Team Canada at the 2022 World Games Championship in Birmingham, Alabama, winning the gold medal.

PLL: Dobson, was selected 12th overall to the Archers Lacrosse Club in the 2022 PLL Entry Draft, where he was the first goalie taken off the board, becoming the first ever St. Bonaventure player to be selected in a professional lacrosse draft. In his first season with the Archers, he started one game against the number 1 seeded Whipsnakes where he posted a 52% Save Percentage, Collecting 14 saves and giving up 13 goals in a losing effort in his first professional start in the PLL

In Dobson’s first season as a starter, he led Archers to an 8-2 record, the best in the regular season, and he was a finalist for the Oren Lyons Goalie of the Year Award. Archers would eventually win the PLL Championship with Dobson being named Championship MVP having stopped 18 of 31 shots in the final.

NCAA: Dobson arrived at St. Bonaventure University in the fall of 2018 as the program’s first recruit, ranked 12th among goalies in his class by *Inside Lacrosse*. As the program started from scratch, Dobson played all four years, setting several school records, including Most Saves in a Single Season (252), Highest Save Percentage in a Single Season (66.5%), and Most Saves in a Single Game (27). In his senior year, he was named the 2022 MAAC Defensive Player of the Year, a 2nd Team All-American by *Inside Lacrosse* and *USA Lacrosse Magazine*, and a 3rd Team All-American by USILA. He also earned a spot on the Tewaaraton Award Watch List and led the nation in Save Percentage. After the COVID-19 pandemic granted an extra year of eligibility to spring athletes, Dobson chose to forgo his fifth year and entered the 2022 PLL Draft.