2020 Merrimack College Men's Lacrosse Roster

Scott W. Grau
Scott W. Grau
Bruce Preston
Nick Grace
Jim Stankiewicz
Jim Stankiewicz
Nick Grace
Nick Grace

6 Charlie Bertrand

  • Class Senior
  • Position Attack
  • Ht./Wt. 6-3 / 220
  • Hometown Baldwinsville, N.Y.
  • High School/Prep (Previous College) Baldwinsville
  • Major Mechanical Engineering

Biography

Career 

  • Three-time USILA All-American, including a two-time first team selection (2018, 2019) after a second team designation as a rookie (2017)
  • Also has been named a two-time USILA National Player of the Year and USILA Top Attackman in consecutive seasons (2018, 2019), winning the former award outright as a junior after sharing it as a sophomore, which marked the program's first such honoree in five seasons
  • Two-time CoSIDA All-American (first team/second team) and became the first student-athlete in school history to be named the Google Cloud Academic All-America Team Member of the Year in 2019
  • Three-time NE10 All-Conference First Team and NEILA All-New England First Team selection 
  • NE10 and NEILA New England Player of the Year (2019)
  • Back-to-back NCAA Elite 90 Award winner for boasting top GPA at the national championship
  • Only Division II player named to the Tewaaraton Watch List (2019) and named to the list again in 2020
  • Team captain (2019, 2020)
  • Two-time NE10 Academic All-Conference Team selection (2018-19) and one-time Sports Excellence Award winner (2019)
  • NE10 Rookie of the Year (2017)

2020

  • Started in all six games on the year
  • Served as a team captain
  • Led the Warriors with 18 goals and 23 points
  • Also led the team in shots (67) and shots on goal (41)
  • Netted a season-high six goals against Dartmouth (Feb. 15)
  • Had multi-point performances in all six games
  • Continued his streak of registering a point in every single collegiate game he has played in (58 games), which was the longest active streak in the country
  • Has scored a goal in every game of his career

2019

  • USILA First Team All-American for second straight season
  • Named the Lt. Raymond J. Enners Outstanding Player award for the second straight season, representing the nation's most valuable player
  • Also named the Lt. Col. J.I. Turnbull Award winner for the nation's most outstanding attackman for the second year in a row
  • Only Division II player named to the Tewaaraton Watch List 
  • Became the first student-athlete in school history to be named CoSIDA Google Cloud Academic All-America Team Member of the Year after being named a first team selection on the at-large team 
  • Also a Google Cloud Academic All-District selection
  • Elite 90 Award winner for boasting top GPA at the NCAA Championship for the second straight year
  • NEILA and NE10 Player of the Year
  • NEILA First Team All-Region
  • NE10 All-Conference First Team selection
  • NE10 All-Academic Team honoree and Sports Excellence Award winner
  • One-time NE10 Player of the Week
  • Team captain
  • Compiled 97 points on the year (78 goals, 19 assists)
  • Set a new single-season school record with 78 goals
  • Led the nation in points per game (6.06) and goals per game (4.88)
  • His 13 man-up goals were second nationally
  • Filled out his statistical ledger with 26 ground balls and seven caused turnovers
  • Boasted two 10-plus-point games, including a career-high 12-point affair (8g, 4a) at LIU Post (3/8)
  • Tallied eight goals twice
  • Had 22 points across four NCAA Tournament games, including seven (4g, 3a) in the title game

2018

  • USILA First Team All-American, moving up from the second team unit that he earned as a rookie
  • Named the co-winner of the Lt. Raymond J. Enners Outstanding Player award, representing the nation's most valuable player
  • Also named the Lt. Col. J.I. Turnbull Award winner for the nation's most outstanding attackman
  • CoSIDA Google Cloud All-America Second Team and All-District selection
  • Elite 90 Award winner for boasting top GPA at NCAA Championship
  • NEILA First Team All-Region
  • NE10 All-Conference First Team selection
  • NE10 All-Academic Team honoree
  • Claimed the program's first overall USILA Player of the Year honor since former All-American Corey Lunney '13
  • Two-time NE10 Player of the Week
  • Finished with a career-high 79 points (62g, 17a) and had at least three goals in 12 games and at least two points in every single contest he played in, featuring four seven-plus-point outings during that span
  • Led the NE10 with a career-high 62 goals, ranking fifth nationally averaging 3.44 goals per game
  • Also ranked 11th nationally in scoring average (4.39)
  • Fired 175 shots, landing 103 on net, while boasting 34 ground balls and nine caused turnovers
  • A career-high seven of his 62 goals were a man-up, while he also netted the first man-down goal of his career, as well
  • Went off for a career-high eight points in NE10 Semifinal victory over Adelphi (5/4)
  • Potted a career-best seven goals in a road win at Bentley (3/28), with a career-high three of them coming a man up
  • Gathered a career-high four ground balls on three different occasions on the season 

2017

  • USILA All-America Second Team, NEILA All-New England First Team, NE10 All-Conference First Team, NE10 All-Rookie Team
  • NE10 Rookie of the Year
  • Named USILA Offensive Player of the Week once
  • Broke onto the scene with historic freshman season, leading team in goals (52), assists (23), and points (75)
  • Appeared and started in 18 games in 2017
  • Scored four goals and dished two assists, totaling six points in a season opener victory over LIU Post (2/18)
  • Notched six goals against Le Moyne (3/18)
  • Racked up four goals, two assists, and two ground balls in win against Adelphi (5/20)

Before Merrimack

  • CNYCL First Team All-League (2015, 2016)
  • Team MVP and captain as a senior
  • Team captain as a junior
  • Named Baldwinsville Male Athlete of the Year
  • Totaled 59 goals and 14 assists as a junior, ranking second in goals and fourth in points in the CNYCL
  • News 9 Athlete of the week after scoring 17 goals and 3 assists (2015)
  • Also lettered in boys' hockey and earned first team all-conference and all-state recognition while serving as team captain and being named Team MVP
  • Team United club lacrosse
  • Also recruited by Fairfield, Siena and Lemoyne.

Personal

  • Born April 19, 1998
  • Son of Ron and Susan
  • Brother to Connor and Ronnie
  • Mechanical Engineering major

CAREER HIGHS

Points: 12, at LIU Post, Mar 08, 2019 
Goals: 8, at Saint Anselm, Apr 02, 2019 ; at LIU Post, Mar 08, 2019 
Assists: 4, at LIU Post, Mar 08, 2019 
Shots: 18, at LIU Post, Mar 08, 2019 
Ground balls: 5, NYIT, 02/23/19 
Man-up goals: 3, 2 times
Man-down goals: 1, Lake Erie, Mar 03, 2018 
Caused turnovers: 2, 4 times

Statistics

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Historical Player Information

  • 6

    2017Freshman

    A
    6'3" 220 lbs
    6
  • 6

    2018Sophomore

    A
    6'3" 220 lbs
    6
  • 6
    C

    2019Junior

    Attack
    6'3" 220 lbs
    6
    C
  • 6
    C

    2020Senior

    Attack
    6'3" 220 lbs
    6
    C