England box lacrosse player Jack Royer, who was England’s top scorer as they finished fourth at last year’s World Championships, has joined Calgary Roughnecks in the National Lacrosse League (NLL) after the annual draft took place on Saturday 6 September.
Drafted by Calgary in the fourth round of picks as pick 49, Royer will team up with fellow England star Cam MacLeod who joined the Roughnecks in 2024 and helped them to sixth place in the league and a play-off run last season.
Calgary is a three-time NLL champion with title wins in 2004 and 2009 but hasn’t reached top spot in six years since their last victory in 2019.
Royer is one of box lacrosse’s brightest young sparks having averaged over four points per game with the Edmonton Miners over three seasons when he was younger.
Last summer, he scored 10 goals and claimed four assists as England became the highest place European side at the 2024 World Championships in Utica, USA.
The Roughnecks are based in Calgary, a city in the Canadian province of Alberta, which Royer is more than familiar with having grown up in Edmonton, a short three hour drive away.
Royer studied at Queen’s University of Carolina where he scored 122 points over four seasons before graduating earlier this year.
The NLL is a professional box lacrosse league in North America comprising 14 teams - seven in Canada and seven in the USA.
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