Gary Gait
| Gary Gait | |
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| — Lacrosse player ♂ — | |
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| Born |
April 5, 1967 Victoria, BC, CAN |
| Position | Attack/Midfield |
| Height | 6 ft 2 in (1.88 m) |
| Weight | 210 pounds (95 kg) |
| NCAA team | Syracuse University |
| Former NLL teams |
Rochester Knighthawks Colorado Mammoth Washington Power Pittsburgh CrosseFire Baltimore Thunder Philadelphia Wings Detroit Turbos |
| Former MLL teams |
Toronto Nationals Long Island Lizards Baltimore Bayhawks |
| Nationality |
 Canada |
| NLL Draft | 1st overall, 1990 Detroit Turbos |
| Pro career | 1991–2009 |
| Shoots | Left/Right |
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U.S. Lacrosse Hall of Fame NLL Hall of Fame, 2006 |
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Gary Charles Gait (born April 5, 1967) is a Canadian retired professional lacrosse player and currently the head coach of the women's lacrosse team at Syracuse University, where he played the sport collegiately. On January 24, 2017, he was named the Interim Commissioner of the United Women's Lacrosse League.
He played collegiately for the Syracuse Orange men's lacrosse team and professionally in the indoor National Lacrosse League and the outdoor MLL, while representing Canada at the international level. Gait has been inducted into the United States Lacrosse National Hall of Fame and the National Lacrosse League Hall of Fame.
He was a four-time All-American for the Syracuse Orange men's lacrosse team from 1987-90 (including first-team honors from 1988 to 1990), and was on three NCAA championship-winning teams. He twice won the Lt. Raymond Enners Award, given to the most outstanding college lacrosse player, in 1988 and 1990. Gait holds the Syracuse career goals record at 192 and the single-season goals record at 70, an NCAA record until 2008. In 1997, the NCAA Lacrosse Committee named Gait, along with his twin brother and Syracuse teammate, Paul, to the 25th Anniversary Lacrosse team.
He played in the NLL for 17 years, winning Rookie of the Year in 1991, earning league MVP honors for five straight years, from 1995 to '99 and winning All-Pro honors each season. Gait led the league in points and goals seven times, won three league championships and finished his indoor career with 1,091 points, a league record at the time.
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