Justin Tavares

Midfielder

2025 Class

5'11" Height

Deerfield Academy School

Edge Club

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About Justin

Justin Tavares is a 5'11" Midfielder in the 2025 class. Tavares attends Deerfield Academy in Massachusetts and plays club lacrosse for Edge. Tavares's Player Profile was created on April 3, 2024. Subscribe to Prep Lacrosse to see where Justin Tavares is ranked and what our scouts have written about them.

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Justin

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Class

2025

Height

5'11"

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Deerfield Academy

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Justin Tavares

Even though his Big Green came up short in a thrilling 11-10 double OT battle with Brunswick (Conn.)...

Written by Ty Xanders

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Ty Xanders

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Even though his Big Green came up short in a thrilling 11-10 double OT battle with Brunswick (Conn.) on Saturday, the game never would have gotten to that point if not for Tavares’ timely brilliance. After all, two of his three tallies came less than a minute after ‘Wick scored. The only one that didn’t? Well, it came when the lefty from Mississauga (Ont.) found the net with 4.7 seconds left to send the game to overtime. Even amid a flurry late in the game when the refs let things get out of hand and things got chippy, the chaos never got to the unflappable Tavares, who got his hands free and found the back of the net when his team needed a play to stay alive.

Late in the first half with under a minute left on the clock, a Deerfield pole goal was sandwiched between two ‘Wick scores before Tavares notched a huge juice goal off a rebound with six seconds to go, providing his squad with the momentum and knotting the game at 7-7. In the fourth quarter, Tavares buried one high to draw within one, then after the Big Green’s defense held serve for the next six-plus minutes, his last-second heroics sent the game to OT.

Tavares’ production was pivotal given that ‘Wick put the clamps on Deerfield’s starting attack for the most part so a spark was needed out of the midfield. Dangerous without the ball and blessed with outstanding hands, he’s also an accomplished hockey player, which comes as no surprise given his grit and powerful release. While he’s certainly making a name for himself, it’s worth mentioning that his father is the NLL’s all-time leader in goals and Buffalo Bandits head coach John Tavares, whose nephew — also named John — is a captain for the Toronto Maple Leafs and has racked up over 1,000 points in the NHL.

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Written 2 years ago