2021 Graduating Junior Draft

2025 WLA Graduating Junior Player Draft

Tuesday, January 28, 2025 – 7pm (PST)

Draft Rules

  1. Each team will have up to three minutes to make a selection in rounds 1 - 3; two minutes in round 4+.
  2. A team may request one three-minute time-out in rounds 1 - 3, and one two-minute time-out in rounds 4+.
  3. After each round is completed, there will be a five-minute break.
  4. Any team that drafts an ineligible player will lose that selection in the draft.
  5. Once a team has passed, they may not draft another player.
  6. If all teams pass, or after five rounds, the draft will end.

Territorial Protection Rules

  1. To be eligible for protection by a team, a player must have played for a club's associated Junior A team, or graduated from an assigned minor lacrosse territory.
  2. Teams may protect up to two players. If they do not protect any players, they will receive compensatory picks following the first and second rounds of the draft. If they only protect one player, they will receive a compensatory pick following the second round of the draft.
  3. Territorial protection rights and compensatory picks are not tradeable assets.
  4. The currently assigned protection territories are:
    • Burnaby: played for Burnaby Junior A Lakers
    • Coquitlam: played for Coquitlam Junior A Adanacs
    • Langley: played for Langley Junior A Thunder
    • Maple Ridge: graduated from Ridge Meadows Minor Lacrosse (takes precendent over Junior A affiliation)
    • Nanaimo: played for Nanaimo Junior A Timbermen
    • New Westminster: played for New Westminster Junior A Salmonbellies
    • Victoria: played for Victoria Junior A Shamrocks

Protected Players

Team Player
BurnabyBurnaby Protected Marc Rippberger
(Burnaby Jr A)
BurnabyBurnaby Protected Joel McCormick
(Burnaby Jr A)
CoquitlamCoquitlam Protected Remo Schenato
(Coquitlam Jr A)
CoquitlamCoquitlam Protected Robbie Turpin
(Coquitlam Jr A)
LangleyLangley Protected Jaiden Terry
(Burnaby Jr A)
LangleyLangley Protected Chase Schiavon
(Langley Jr A)
Maple RidgeMaple Ridge Protected Brayden Laity
(Port Coquitlam Jr A)
Maple RidgeMaple Ridge Protected Ethan M'lot
(Burnaby Jr A)
NanaimoNanaimo Protected Aidan Collery
(Nanaimo Jr A)
New WestminsterNew Westminster Protected Ben Soenen
(New Westminster Jr A)
New WestminsterNew Westminster Protected Tysen Nielsen
(New Westminster Jr A)
VictoriaVictoria Protected Kaden Granberg
(Victoria Jr A)
VictoriaVictoria Protected Noah Manning
(Victoria Jr A)

First Round

# Team Player
1 BurnabyBurnaby Silas Richmond
(Delta Jr A / Port Coquitlam Jr A)
2 BurnabyBurnaby Jaxon Fridge
(Coquitlam Jr A)
3 CoquitlamCoquitlam David Charney
(Coquitlam Jr A)
4 NanaimoNanaimo Joshua Gabriele
(Burnaby Jr A)
5 LangleyLangley Hudson Halladay
(Port Coquitlam Jr A)
6 Maple RidgeMaple Ridge Ethan Quinn
(Port Coquitlam Jr A)
7 CoquitlamCoquitlam Aiden Hindson
(New Westminster Jr A)