Jack Murphy isn’t your typical lax bro. In a few weeks from now, this week’s Campus Cutie will be playing professional lacrosse for the Boston Cannons. If that isn’t impressive enough, Jack has a bright smile and positive personality that is both genuine and contagious. Read on to discover how amazing the rest of his personality is and his journey towards playing professional lacrosse.
Name: Jack Murphy
Hometown: Cohasset, MA
Year: 2015
Major: Economics, Math Minor
Relationship Status: Taken
Sports Teams: Red Sox and Bruins
Rapid Fire Round:
Dunkin Donuts or Starbucks?
JM: Dunkin Donuts
iPhone or Andriod?
JM: iPhone
Beach or slopes?
JM: Beach
What was the last gift you gave?
JM: A teddy bear…I think?
What did you eat for breakfast?
JM: Barone
Favorite song?
JM: “Young” by Kenny Chesney.
Celebrity crush?
JM: Leo
Glass half full or half empty?
JM: Half full
Beer or liquor?
JM: Beer
Favorite movie quote?
JM: Um…”I got a dollar” from The Little Rascals
Biggest fear?
JM: Not graduating (laughs)
Target or Walmart?
JM: Walmart
Favorite word?
JM: Wicked
Super power?
JM: Fly
Mac or PC?
JM: Mac
Salad or pizza?
JM: Salad
Last thing you watched on Netflix?
JM: Walking Dead
What’s number one on your bucket list?
JM: Skydiving
Life at Fairfield
Her Campus: What’s your favorite thing about going to Fairfield?
Jack Murphy: I kind of like that it’s small, you get to see everybody and yeah, you know everybody. You can see all of your friends in one day or you can always run into people you haven’t seen in a while.
HC: Are you going to/are you excited for Clam Jam this weekend?
JM: I’m not going to, but I would be excited. We [the lacrosse team] have our game versus Ohio State at the same time.
HC: So after Clam Jam, junior year is almost over. What are you most looking forward to in your senior year?
JM: Just being on the beach right when we get back
HC: What house are you living at?
JM: We’re in Sea Ranch next year…it’s going to be amazing. We got really lucky.
On the field
HC: Tell me about your lacrosse career.
JM: Well I started as goalie in 7th grade. I did it because no one else wanted to play and then stuck with it throughout high school. We won two out of four state championships in high school but I didn’t get recruited anywhere even though I was All-American in my senior year of high school. I ended up going to Mass Maritime, just as an interest for school, for a year and a half before I decided to go somewhere else and possibly play lacrosse, but mainly I just wanted to be at a different school.
HC: How did you decide on Fairfield?
JM: I emailed just about every school in the Northeast and Coach Copelan was the only one who responded saying I would be able to get a tryout and the school also had Engineering so that’s how I ended up here. Got my butt kicked the first year I was here though. Charlie Cipriano was the goalie and a very good kid to be behind. It was like being behind a Tom Brady. Then last year was the only year I really played, other than this year, and I ended up getting drafted after that season.
HC: Did you ever think you would go pro?
JM: I did not; especially after high school when I didn’t get recruited I thought that whole dream was out the window. And then I got here and I heard Charlie had been picked up by the Denver Outlaws so I thought there was some kind of chance, but I still wasn’t as good as him. Even up until the draft day, I hadn’t been in any of the mock drafts for the goalies. There were four or five goalies that were ranked ahead of me and I ended up getting picked as the last one. Third pick in the eighth round.
HC: Who has been most influential during your lacrosse career?
JM: Um, a couple people. I’d say my high school coach, Stu Curran, I had him as a coach since about 7th grade. Then the second I got here, Coach Witley has helped me out a ton. I don’t think I would have gone quite as far without his help.
HC: What’s the best game you’ve ever played?
JM: The best game that I’ve ever played, or the best game I’ve ever been a part of, was last year when we beat number one ranked Denver in overtime, in Denver. That was by far the best game I’ve ever been a part of.