Steve Prifte          #8

Long-Stick Midfield

5-10, 190, Senior

Shamong, NJ/Shawnee

High School Coach: Tim Gushue

Fourth season on the Pride lacrosse roster...Team Captain...2009 Preseason All-CAA selection by Inside Lacrosse Face-off Yearbook and by the CAA coaches...2008: Second team All-CAA selection...Played in all 16 games...Recorded one goal and two assists for three points...Recorded his lone goal of the season, the game-winner, at Stony Brook...Posted assists against Johns Hopkins and Stony Brook...Third on the team with 40 ground balls...Picked up seven loose balls at Stony Brook, five against Brown, and four at Massachusetts and Princeton...Forced three turnovers at Massachusetts and Villanova...Took four shots, including two at Stony Brook...Member of the Hofstra Athletics Academic Honor Roll...2007: Played in all 14 games...Tallied one goal and one assist...Scored at Brown and assisted on a goal at Army...Took three shots, all on cage...Picked up 21 ground balls, including five against Drexel and three against Villanova...Took 55 face-offs and won 23 (.418)...Won eight face-offs against Villanova...Forced 11 turnovers...2006: Saw action in 11 games as a freshman...Picked up two ground balls, against Drexel and Villanova, on the season...Forced a turnover against Drexel...High School: Played three years of lacrosse and four years of football at Shawnee High School in Medford, New Jersey...Earned All-America accolades as a senior...All-South Jersey selection as a junior and senior...Three-time All-Olympic Conference selection...Helped lacrosse team to three conference championships...Member of two South Jersey Group 4 football state championship teams...Second team all-conference selection at linebacker as a senior...Personal: Born November 5, 1986...His father, Chris, played football and lacrosse at Hofstra in the late 1970s...Has one sister and a twin brother, Keith, who also is a member of the Pride...Hobbies include fishing and golf...Also recruited by Towson, Delaware, Marist and Hobart...Plans to pursue a career in business...Entrepreneurship major.

Year           GP      Sht.         G         A         Pts.         GB

2006           11       0              0          0          0              2

2007           14       3              1          1          2              21

2008           16       4              1          2          3              40

Career        41       7              2          3          5              63