42 Jack Melby
Jack Melby
  • Height:
    5-10
  • Weight:
    168
  • Year:
    Sr.
  • Hometown:
    Eagan, Minn.
  • High School:
    Eagan
  • Position:
    M
  • Major:
    Economics
  • gp
    18
  • p
    0
  • g
    0
  • a
    0

Bio

2019 Season (Senior): Appeared in 18 games, making six starts...Picked up 44 ground balls...Caused a turnover...Won 89-of-151 faceoffs (.589)...Won a career-high-tying 21 faceoffs against Fontbonne (March 30), to go along with 10 ground balls...Ends his career second all-time in program history for faceoff winning percentage (.605) and owns the single-season record for faceoff winning percentage (.658 set in 2016).

2018 Season (Junior): Appeared in all 19 games, making two starts...Won 64-of-108 faceoffs...Had a .593 faceoff winning percentage...Picked up 20 ground balls...Scored a goal...Caused a turnover...Was a perfect 14-of-14 on faceoffs and picked up seven ground balls at Fontbonne (March 31).

2017 Season (Sophomore): Named All-Midwest Lacrosse Conference Second Team as a midfielder...Named MLC Defensive Player of the Week (April 17)...Appeared in 14 games, making 11 starts...Assisted on two goals...Picked up 48 ground balls, which was tied for second on the team...Caused a turnover...Won 106-of-176 faceoffs...Had a 60.2 faceoff winning percentage...Recorded five games with double-digit faceoff wins...Had a stretch of five games winning 74-of-100 faceoffs in the middle of the season...Picked up a career-high 15 ground balls (second-most in a game in program history) and won 19-of-21 faceoffs at Monmouth (April 8)....Tallied 14-of-15 faceoff wins and picked up eight ground balls against MSOE (April 12)...Won 21-of-29 faceoffs (fourth most faceoffs won in a game in program history) and picked up nine ground balls against Concordia Chicago (April 15).

2016 Season (Freshman): Appeared in 13 games, making one start…Scored a goal…Assisted on a marker…Picked up 17 ground balls…Caused a turnover…Won 50-of-76 faceoffs (.658)…Recorded 13-of-17 faceoff wins (.764) and picked up six ground balls at Dubuque (April 9)…Recorded 9-of-15 faceoff wins (.600) and three ground balls against Carthage (April 13)…Had a goal, won 7-of-12 faceoffs (.583), picked up two ground balls and caused a turnover versus Concordia Chicago (April 23).

High School (Eagan): Helped the lacrosse team win two South Suburban Conference titles...Took the most faceoffs his junior year in the entire state of Minnesota...Won over 61 percent of his career faceoffs...Earned varsity letters in lacrosse.

Personal: Son of Scott and Jill...Has one sister, Grace.

Player Profile

Recent Games
Apr 19 North Central W, 24-2
Apr 24 at Northwestern-St. Paul W, 18-2
Apr 27 Cornell W, 21-3
May 1 MSOE W, 10-6
May 4 Aurora W, 9-7
May 8 at No. 8 Denison L, 12-6
  Overall Conf
Games 18 11
Points 0 0
Goals 0 0
Assists 0 0
Man-up goals 0 0
Man-down goals 0 0
Ground balls 44 32
Turnovers 4 2
Caused turnovers 1 1
Faceoffs 89-151 69-114
Faceoff percentage 58.9 60.5
Shots 1 0
Shooting percentage 0.0 -
Shots on goal 1 0
Shots on goal percentage 100.0 -
Date Opponent Score g a pts up dn gb to ct fo sh sh% sog sog%
Feb 23 at John Carroll L, 12-6 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1-4 0 - 0 -
Mar 1 Dubuque W, 11-2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0-2 0 - 0 -
Mar 9 MSOE W, 8-7 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0-2 0 - 0 -
Mar 13 at Benedictine W, 12-8 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2-3 0 - 0 -
Mar 16 at Beloit W, 13-7 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1-2 0 - 0 -
Mar 20 at Brockport L, 8-6 - - - - - - - - - - - - -
Mar 22 at Medaille W, 16-3 0 0 0 0 0 5 0 0 8-10 0 - 0 -
Mar 27 at Carthage L, 16-7 0 0 0 0 0 5 0 0 9-15 1 0.0 1 100.0
Mar 30 Fontbonne W, 16-4 0 0 0 0 0 10 0 0 21-23 0 - 0 -
Apr 3 at Aurora W, 10-3 0 0 0 0 0 2 1 1 6-15 0 - 0 -
Apr 6 at Monmouth W, 9-4 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 9-15 0 - 0 -
Apr 13 Concordia Chicago W, 18-2 0 0 0 0 0 3 0 0 7-13 0 - 0 -
Apr 17 Marian W, 18-7 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0-5 0 - 0 -
Apr 19 North Central W, 24-2 0 0 0 0 0 6 0 0 10-12 0 - 0 -
Apr 24 at Northwestern-St. Paul W, 18-2 0 0 0 0 0 4 1 0 7-10 0 - 0 -
Apr 27 Cornell W, 21-3 0 0 0 0 0 5 0 0 6-14 0 - 0 -
May 1 MSOE W, 10-6 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0-1 0 - 0 -
May 4 Aurora W, 9-7 0 0 0 0 0 2 2 0 2-3 0 - 0 -
May 8 at No. 8 Denison L, 12-6 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0-2 0 - 0 -
  gp gs g a pts up dn gb to ct fo sh sh% sog sog%
2015-16 13 1 1 1 2 0 0 17 0 1 50-76 3 33.3 2 66.7
2016-17 14 11 0 2 2 0 0 48 5 1 106-176 2 0.0 0 0.0
2017-18 19 2 1 0 1 0 0 20 0 1 64-108 2 50.0 1 50.0
2018-19 18 6 0 0 0 0 0 44 4 1 89-151 1 0.0 1 100.0
Total 64 20 2 3 5 0 0 129 9 4 309-511 8 25.0 4 50.0
    gp gs g a pts up dn gb to ct fo sh sh% sog sog%
Event Total 18 6 0 0 0 0 0 44 4 1 89-151 1 0.0 1 100.0
Conference 11 5 0 0 0 0 0 32 2 1 69-114 0 - 0 -
Exhibition - - - - 0 - - - - - 0-0 - - - -
Location Home 9 3 0 0 0 0 0 26 2 0 46-75 0 - 0 -
Away 9 3 0 0 0 0 0 18 2 1 43-76 1 0.0 1 100.0
Neutral - - - - 0 - - - - - 0-0 - - - -
Result Wins 15 5 0 0 0 0 0 39 4 1 79-130 0 - 0 -
Losses 3 1 0 0 0 0 0 5 0 0 10-21 1 0.0 1 100.0
Month February 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1-4 0 - 0 -
March 7 1 0 0 0 0 0 20 0 0 41-57 1 0.0 1 100.0
April 7 4 0 0 0 0 0 22 2 1 45-84 0 - 0 -
May 3 - 0 0 0 0 0 2 2 0 2-6 0 - 0 -

News Mentions

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Men's Lacrosse wins seventh in a row

Falcons have nine players score in the victory and five with multiple goals

April 24, 2019

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Men's Lacrosse cruises to MLC win

Falcons had the second-most ground balls and faceoff wins in a game in program history

April 19, 2019

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Men's Lacrosse scores in bunches during MLC victory

Falcons net three goals in three different quarters

April 6, 2019

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Falcons cruise to MLC victory

Concordia Wisconsin had season-highs in shots (55), shots on goal (30) and faceoff wins (21)

March 30, 2019

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Men's Lacrosse wraps up non-conference portion of its schedule

Day, Connolly each score twice in road game at Carthage

March 27, 2019

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Falcons take easy win over Medaille

Eleven players find the back of the net, Gramarossa and Melby dominate the faceoff circle

March 22, 2019

Photos

Jack Melby action photo 1

Photo by Rachel Larson

  • Fontbonne vs. Concordia Wisconsin
Jack Melby action photo 2

Photo by Rachel Larson

  • Fontbonne vs. Concordia Wisconsin
Jack Melby action photo 3

Photo by Rachel Larson

  • Fontbonne vs. Concordia Wisconsin
Jack Melby action photo 4

Photo by Rachel Larson

  • Fontbonne vs. Concordia Wisconsin
Jack Melby action photo 5

Photo by Rachel Larson

  • Fontbonne vs. Concordia Wisconsin
Jack Melby action photo 6

Photo by Rachel Larson

  • Fontbonne vs. Concordia Wisconsin
Jack Melby action photo 7

Photo by Rachel Larson

  • Fontbonne vs. Concordia Wisconsin
Jack Melby action photo 8

Photo by Rachel Larson

  • Fontbonne vs. Concordia Wisconsin
Jack Melby action photo 9

Photo by Rachel Larson

  • Fontbonne vs. Concordia Wisconsin
Jack Melby action photo 10

Photo by Rachel Larson

  • Marian vs. Concordia Wisconsin