This year, Armour is shooting 37.5 percent and has recorded six points. Last weekend, the sniper grabbed a hat trick during the Tigers’ 21-6 massacre of the Dartmouth Big Green. The ‘Prince’ sat down with Luke in order to shatter the stereotype of the Princeton lax bro, talk about the men’s lacrosse team’s victory in last week’s campus-wide dodgeball tournament and extract some true insight about what it’s like to dangle with the Tigers.
Q. In your mind, what is your role on the lacrosse team?
A. My role is to score goals and help create victory for my team. I also do a pregame locker room “Dougie” that has become routine.
Q. Who has had the biggest impact on improving the offense this year and how?
A. We’ve had great contributions from many offensive players, but I think our new offensive assistant coach Michael Podgajny has been great for us. He is an extremely positive energy and that goes a long way in helping guys, and an offense as a whole, improve.
Q. What’s a bigger game: Harvard or Cornell, and why?
A. Both are huge for us. Harvard has beaten us two years in a row, and Cornell is always one of the best in the country. Both will be great games.
Q. What was the most exciting moment of this season for you thus far?
A. This is a tough one. In the fall, [sophomore midfielder] Paul Zima walked onto our team, and he has been a huge addition for us thus far. In one of his first practices, tensions were high and Paul fell victim to a raging assault from sophomore defenseman Rob Castelo. It was a unique welcome-to-the-team moment for Paul, and in some perverse way, pretty exciting.
Q. Last week, your teammate and roommate, junior midfielder Chris White, mentioned that you are a “rapper on the side.” There is no way you are getting out of this interview without giving us your stage name and a brief explanation of your experience.
A. If you don’t know about the Luke of Earl by now, you’ve probably never listened to Hot 97, New York’s No. 1 Station for Blazin’ Hip Hop and R&B. My rap game peaked in high school, but since then I’ve had to keep a low profile. A few months ago I had to pop a cop ’cause he wasn’t giving me my props in Oaktown.
Q. Chris also deemed you an “herbal expert.” Give us the most helpful piece of health advice you can think of in this arena.
A. Forget herbs. After all of the sicknesses White brings to our room, I’ve started drinking Lysol before I go to sleep every night to stay germ-free.
Q. What is the most noteworthy pregame ritual your team or an individual teammate practices?
A. For some reason, our team has been big on pregame dancing in the locker room. To warm up, we usually form a circle around senior [attackman] Mike Grossman, who break-dances for about 10 minutes, and then we do the Macarena in unison.
Q. Describe the dodgeball tournament in one word.
A. Boujis.
Q. Who were the most and least valuable players on the lacrosse team that night, and why?
A. Most valuable was Tom Gibbons for his unmatched leadership commitment to the team. The least valuable player was Brendan DeTommaso. That guy is the Brian Scalabrine of dodgeball. For real, doe.
Q. How did you guys decide to spend the prize money?
A. Much of the prize money will be donated to the Ann Bates foundation in honor of our coach’s wife, who recently passed away from cancer.
Q. What song is most played in the lax locker room right now?
A. “212,” by Azealia Banks.
Q. Here is your chance to publicize the quirk of one teammate. Go.
A. [Junior midfielder] Jeff Froccaro speaks Japanese fluently in his sleep.
Q. If you and your teammates could challenge one other varsity team to a competition in their sport, which would you pick?
A. I think it’d be interesting to see if we could compete with the women’s lacrosse team if we played by their rules (and with girls’ sticks).
Q. Give the public what they want: three terms of lacrosse jargon or slang, how they’re used, and their English translations.
A. No one wants this! And if they do, see the dodgeball question.
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