The Untouchable One: Kyle Savage's Record Year

by Matt Stevens on 30/04/09 at 3:56 pm

The Untouchable One: Kyle Savage's Record Year

It’s a beautiful Saturday spring afternoon, the sun is shining, the birds are chirping, and Nevers Field is packed with fans watching Eastern Men’s lacrosse team. In between the pipes is all conference goalie Kyle Savage. He is directing his defense and making crucial saves that is helping his team stay in the game. When the game ends, he can be found on the winning side more likely than the losing side. Savage has been a four year starter here and has helped transformed Eastern into a Division III powerhouse and has done it by smashing every record in the book here at Eastern. He has set records in most saves, save percentage, games played and games started. On April 18th of this year, he broke the most wins as a goalie in school history with his 39th career victory in the net. To date he is now at 41 career victories. He also recently became the 25th goalie to make 700 career saves at the Division III level. Hailing from Southington High School and now finishing up his scholastic career at Eastern, he has left a legacy that will be hard for others to match.

Savage has been through it all and he reminisces when it all began. “I started playing lacrosse in third grade when my entire baseball teams switched from baseball to lacrosse because baseball was too slow for us.” Being the backstop behind the plate to the backstop in front of the pipes, the transition for Savage was a good choice. When it came to time to choose a college he chose Eastern with his twin brother Matt, who recently scored his with 100th career goal and was joined in that club along with senior captain DJ Simmons. On choosing Eastern Savage said, “I liked the dorms; the coach at the time told me that I would play all four years and that I would have a chance of starting my freshman year.” Savage indeed became a four year starter and commented on that, “It feels good, it has allowed me to grow by seeing game action all four years, it made me become a leader.” During his four years he has amassed all the records that a goaltender could receive. “It feels great to set all these records because I work hard in the off season and this means that my accomplishments will here for a while after I leave,” said Savage. “Being the winningest goalie is my favorite accomplishment because it reflects on how well the team has done and means we can reach our team goals. This is just a way for me to contribute to the team,” said Savage. As mentioned before, Savage has reached the 700 save plateau, but he is still hungry. “It feels good to reach that mark, but now that I have 700 saves it doesn’t satisfy me, now I want to reach 800 and be in the top 11 all time. At this time I am not content with the 700 save level.” With this being his senior season, Savage is looking forward to continue his lacrosse career after his collegiate career. He plays for his summer league team, Rip-It, and plans on trying out for the Irish national team next fall. Savage then stated the importance lacrosse has had on him, “It teaches you about life, and if I didn’t have it my life would have been different.” When asked to sum up his experience in one sentence he said, “It was a roller coaster ride.”

Savage is also co owner of Savage Lacrosse, a company he and his brother founded. “Our long term goal is to be a well know team and custom apparel store in New England.” Co-owner DJ Simmons then added, “We want to take over the lacrosse world.” Savage has many opportunities still available in lacrosse after his college career is completed. However, the story hasn’t ended yet as Savage and the rest of his team still has the LEC tournament to play and a likely trip to the NCAA tournament. In the end, Eastern will be losing not only a record breaking athlete, but a great mind, and a great personality, and I’m grateful that I got a chance to meet such a terrific person. He is truly the untouchable one.

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