| Matt Drenan |
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Senior
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| Hometown:
San Diego, CA
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| High School:
Rancho Bernardo
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| Height / Weight:
6-2 / 210
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| Position:
Defense
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2008: Played in all 17 games as JHU's primary long-stick middie and had 22 ground balls on the year • Saw first action in nearly two years in the season-opener against Albany as he sat out the entire 2007 season wtih a torn ACL • Fueled the defensive turnaround in the second half of the season that saw the Blue Jays win eight straight to advance to the national championship game • JHU finished 19th in the nation in scoring defense after ranking as low as 49th at one point in the middle of the season.
2007: Missed the entire season after suffering a preseason knee injury.
2006: Played and started all 14 games on close defense • First freshman to start a season-opener on defense for JHU since Chris Watson (2002) • Finished fifth on the team - and first among close defensemen - with 32 ground balls on the year • 32 ground balls on the year are the most by a Johns Hopkins close defenseman since Michael Peyser had 33 in 2002 • Scooped up a career-high six ground balls, including one in the final five seconds, in the 11-10 win over Towson • Six GBs were the most by a Johns Hopkins close defenseman on the year • Picked up a then career-high five ground balls against North Carolina and added a team-high five in the 13-3 win over Penn in the first round of the NCAA Tournament • Fueled a Hopkins defense that held nine of 14 opponents to nine goals or less and six opponents to seven goals or less • Johns Hopkins finished 17th in the nation in scoring defense (8.21).
At Rancho Bernardo: Standout in football and lacrosse and a team captain in both sports • Garnered All-America honors as a senior, when he also earned conference player-of-the-year honors • Helped lacrosse team to county championship game and football team to a league title as a senior • Earned a 2005 National Football Foundation and College Hall of Fame Scholar-Leader-Athlete Award • Union Tribune All-Academic selection in lacrosse as a junior and senior and as a senior in football.
Personal: Matthew T. Drenan • The son of Michael and Terese Drenan • Father was a member of the football team at Wittenberg (OH) and helped team to a pair of Division III Championships • Born February 13, 1987 • History major.
