It may not have been a good day to be Brian Phipps, Jason Carter or any of the other Terp men’s lacrosse goalies.

Former Terp Joe Walters, currently a member of Major League Lacrosse’s Rochester Rattlers, showed up at practice today to work out the goalies and prepare for his new team’s training camp in April.

I talked with Walters, who said he stays with senior attackman Max Ritz when he comes back to College Park, about playing with his old team, but of course, I’ll hold all the good stuff for a forth-coming story about the surprising number of former Terps that have come back to help out the team already this season.

However, I did give him a chance to play analyst and break down this year’s Terp team.

“The one thing about this team is there’s so much youth. There’s what four freshmen starting? If you’ve got freshmen starting, that’s something that’s pretty unheard of in big-time D-1 lacrosse. The team has some youth, but so far they’ve looked pretty good. They’ve had one upsetting game against Duke, but I’m sure they’ll bounce back and have a good game against Towson this weekend.”

Walters was a four-time All-American, a member of the 2006 U.S. National Team and the No. 1 overall pick in the MLL’s 2006 draft, so hopefully those young players took some notes.