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Colin Briggs

American lacrosse player

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 13, 2026
Entity authorityQ18205305 ↗
Source-derived summary

Colin Briggs is a current professional lacrosse player for the Boston Cannons of the MLL. He was an All-ACC midfielder for the University of Virginia Cavaliers and was named the Most Outstanding Player of the 2011 NCAA Tournament. He was originally drafted 6th overall in the 2012 MLL Collegiate Draft by the Denver Outlaws.

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The public source identifies “Colin Briggs” as american lacrosse player. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Colin, Briggs and American.

Editorial reviewA productive starting point for separating a subject’s documented career from later reputation and commemoration. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2011, 2012—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1989-03-06. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Colin, Briggs and American providing the first useful test.
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The entry’s evidential value lies in the named roles, institutions and publications that can be tested against primary documentation. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 13, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q18205305. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2011 and 2012.

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This entry incorporates text from “Colin Briggs” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.