David Lamarca

Position:
LSM
Height:
5-11
Weight:
200
Class:
Senior
Hometown:
Monkton, Md.
High School:
Loyola Blakefield

Awards and Honors
2025-
USILA Division I Scholar All-American

BIG EAST All-Academic (2020-21, 2021-22, 2022-23, 2024-25)

2024 Season (R-Jr.): Played in 10 games and made six starts on close defense ... Picked up 16 ground balls and caused 11 turnovers ... Picked up three ground balls against Bellarmine (Mar. 9) ... Recorded three ground balls against St. Bonaventure (Mar. 23).

2023 Season (R-So.): Played in 14 games and made one start on close defense ... Picked up 30 ground balls and caused 13 turnovers ... Selected to the All-BIG EAST Preseason Team ... Led the team with six ground balls in home win over Lindenwood (Feb. 4) ... Forced three turnovers and picked up three ground balls in against Detroit Mercy (March 1) ... Caused two turnovers and picked up four ground balls in win over then-No. 5 Penn State (March 18).

2022 Season (R-Fr.): Played in all 15 games and made nine starts on close defense while picking up 46 ground balls (third on MU) and causing 12 turnovers ... Scored a goal against Providence (April 2), while picking up a career-high seven ground balls ... Recorded 10 games with at least three ground balls ... Recorded an assist, picked up three ground balls and caused a turnover in a start at No. 2 Georgetown (April 16).

2021 Season (RS): Played in five games as a true freshman, picking up five ground balls before a season-ending injury... Picked up a season-high three ground balls at No. 4 Georgetown (March 6) ... Also went 0-for-4 on face-offs in that game against the Hoyas.

Prior to Marquette: Lamarca played lacrosse for three years at Loyola Blakefield, where he earned PRLB Baltimore Metro All-Area Second Team honors as a junior in 2019 … Helped the Dons, led by head coach Gene Ubriaco to MIAA semifinal appearances in both 2018 and 2019 … Member of the Baltimore team at the 2019 Under Armour Underclass event that won a championship …. Regarded as a three-star recruit by Inside Lacrosse … Led MIAA long-stick midfielders in ground balls (79) as a junior, while also adding 19 caused turnovers, three goals and six assists … Played club lacrosse with fellow signees Jamie Grant, Pierce Washburn, Ryan Kilcoyne and Justin Mintzer for Looney’s 2020 Orange and head coach Ryan Grimes … Also played JV water polo as a freshman and sophomore.

Personal: Lamarca was born in Las Vegas and is the son of David and Sheri Lamarca … Father was a boxer at UNLV … Chose Marquette to continue his Jesuit education … Earned bachelor's and master's degrees in finance … Pursuing a master's in corporate communications from Marquette ... Hobbies include skiing and playing guitar.