McNamara dominated the stripe on Thursday against Loyola Blakefield, just down the road from Towson University, where he will spend the next four years playing college lacrosse. He and Gentry Curtis Gentry Curtis 5'9" | FO | Right Hand Western Reserve Academy | 2027 OH formed a two-headed monster at the X, combining to go 17-for-22 by the count here, with McNamara accounting for a 10-for-13 performance despite not getting the start. What stands out about his game is how he uses his body, varies his exits, and comfortably handles the ball after the win. His go-to move was a pinch-and-pop backward and up to himself, and he repeatedly won that play by leveraging his size against smaller matchups and embracing contact in tight and 50/50 situations.

For the most part, McNamara was reliable with the ball in his stick after the whistle. He has enough speed to separate, understands when to pull it out of traffic, and rarely puts his team in danger with poor decisions in transition. The two-headed monster of McNamara and Curtis gives Western Reserve a faceoff group that can tilt the possession battle all spring, and it is a unit that should be firmly on the radar for anyone tracking this team’s ceiling.

McNamara dominated the stripe on Thursday against Loyola Blakefield, just down the road from Towson University, where he will spend the next four years playing college lacrosse. He and Gentry Curtis Gentry Curtis 5'9" | FO | Right Hand Western Reserve Academy | 2027 OH formed a two-headed monster at the X, combining to go 17-for-22 by the count here, with McNamara accounting for a 10-for-13 performance despite not getting the start. What stands out about his game is how he uses his body, varies his exits, and comfortably handles the ball after the win. His go-to move was a pinch-and-pop backward and up to himself, and he repeatedly won that play by leveraging his size against smaller matchups and embracing contact in tight and 50/50 situations.

For the most part, McNamara was reliable with the ball in his stick after the whistle. He has enough speed to separate, understands when to pull it out of traffic, and rarely puts his team in danger with poor decisions in transition. The two-headed monster of McNamara and Curtis gives Western Reserve a faceoff group that can tilt the possession battle all spring, and it is a unit that should be firmly on the radar for anyone tracking this team’s ceiling.