The 2025 Premier Lacrosse League concluded on Sunday with the New York Atlas winning the title and Jeff Teat claiming the Most Valuable Player award from the championship game.
The Atlas defeated the Denver Outlaws, 14-13, in a game full of international superstars. But Teat’s three goals and three assists shined the brightest as he powered New York to its first ever PLL title.
Teat continued his superb individual run in the last 12 months, after winning the gold medal with Canada at the 2024 World Lacrosse Men’s Box Championship in Utica, New York and also earning the event’s Most Valuable Player award.
In Utica, Teat amassed 14 goals and 28 assists in six games. In the gold medal game against the United States, he tallied a hat-trick and four assists. Teat also starred in field lacrosse at the 2023 Men’s Championship with another World Team selection as Canada took the silver medal.
Teat’s six-point championship effort to cap his PLL campaign finished off a 40-point season in 10 games with 17 goals and 23 assists. Teat made his fifth all-star team, adding to his storied PLL list of accolades which includes one overall MVP award and four All-Pro team selections, with the 2025 All-Pro teams set to be announced later in September.
Teat was joined on the Atlas by fellow Canadians Reid Bowering, Mike Grace and Jake Stevens. Bowering played with Teat at The World Games 2022 when Canada took gold, and Grace appeared at the 2023 Men’s Championship.
The Atlas championship roster also included Americans with World Lacrosse championship experience in Trevor Baptiste, Liam Entenmann, and Danny Logan. Xander Dickson, the 2024 PLL MVP who exited the game early with an injury, had been called into training camp ahead of the United States’ Atlas Cup campaign.
The Outlaws boasted considerable star power of their own with World Team talent in Brennan O’Neill, the MVP of the 2023 Men’s Championship and the Haudenosaunee’s Jake Piseno, as well Ryan Terefenko, Pat Kavanaugh and Logan McNamey, who all were tabbed for upcoming American sixes rosters.
The Atlas Cup, featuring Canada, the Haudenosaunee, Puerto Rico and the United States in men’s and women’s sixes is set for September 26-28.
Super Sixes – Canada, which features 10 men’s teams and eight women’s teams in sixes action is next on the calendar from October 10 -12.
