Greg Elijah-Brown

Greg Elijah-Brown
From Oneida to Syracuse — Carrying the Creator's Game With Him

Position: Forward
Shoots: Right
Hometown: Oneida, Ontario
MSL Team: Owen Sound North Stars
NLL: Ottawa Black Bears
College: Syracuse University

The Game Has Always Been Close to Home
For Greg Elijah-Brown, lacrosse isn't simply a sport he discovered growing up.

It's part of where he comes from.

A member of the Oneida Nation of the Thames, Elijah-Brown grew up around the Creator's Game and played for the Oneida Braves under a coach who knew him better than most.

His father, Ron Elijah.

That makes the beginning of Greg's story particularly meaningful.

Long before Syracuse.

Long before Major Series Lacrosse.

Long before the National Lacrosse League Draft.

There was Oneida.

There was family.

And there was lacrosse.

Oneida Braves

Elijah-Brown developed his game playing for the Oneida Braves, learning under his father's guidance.

That's where the foundation was established.
The hands.

The vision.

The ability to find the net.

And perhaps most importantly, an understanding that lacrosse represents something deeper than statistics.

Elijah-Brown eventually moved through the Ontario junior system, including time with the Six Nations Rebels and finishing his junior career at the Junior A level with the Burlington Chiefs.

By then, it was becoming obvious that there was another level to his offensive game.

The Hill Academy

Elijah-Brown also attended The Hill Academy, placing him inside one of Canada's premier lacrosse development programs.

Hill has become a pathway to some of the best NCAA programs in the United States.

The expectations are high.

The competition is high.

And for Elijah-Brown, it helped prepare him for the next stage of his journey.

That next stop would take him to New York.

And that's where his offensive game exploded.

Onondaga Community College
Elijah-Brown spent two seasons at Onondaga Community College.

What followed was remarkable.

In 26 career games for the Lazers, he scored:
102 goals
81 assists
183 points

Think about that production.

Nearly four goals per game.

More than seven points per game.

And in 2023 alone, Elijah-Brown produced 58 goals and 47 assists for 105 points.

He earned JUCO All-American honours.

But those numbers did more than fill a scoresheet.

They opened another door.

And this one led to one of the most recognizable lacrosse programs in the world.

Syracuse

There are certain names that simply mean something in lacrosse.

Syracuse is one of them.

The history.

The championships.

The players.

The Indigenous connection to the game.

For Elijah-Brown, that connection mattered.

When he chose Syracuse, part of his reasoning was the university's Native American history.
It meant he wasn't simply moving to another lacrosse program.

There was a connection between the player, the game and the place.

Elijah-Brown made his Syracuse debut in 2024 and scored his first goal for the Orange against Manhattan.

Finding a Role

The transition from junior college dominance to Syracuse wasn't necessarily going to mean scoring 100 points again.

That's part of moving up.

Roles change.

Opportunities change.

The challenge becomes finding another way to contribute.

In 2025, Elijah-Brown appeared in 15 games and became a weapon on Syracuse's man-up unit.
All five of his goals came with the extra man.

He scored on 62.5 percent of his shots.

Against Notre Dame in the ACC Tournament semifinal, Elijah-Brown scored twice on the power play.

Syracuse's man-up unit finished among the best in NCAA Division I lacrosse.

Elijah-Brown had found his role.

And he made it count.

Haudenosaunee

There is another jersey that carries tremendous meaning in Elijah-Brown's career.

Haudenosaunee.

He represented the Haudenosaunee Nationals at the 2022 World Lacrosse Men's U21 Championship, helping the team capture a bronze medal.

And his international story continued.

At the 2026 Pan-American Lacrosse Championships, Elijah-Brown once again represented Haudenosaunee.

This time he produced 13 goals and eight assists during the tournament.

In the bronze-medal game, he scored three times as Haudenosaunee secured another place on the podium.

For a player from Oneida, those aren't simply entries on a résumé.

They are opportunities to represent something much larger.

Six Nations Rivermen

Elijah-Brown's first season of senior lacrosse came with the Six Nations Rivermen in Ontario Series Lacrosse.

And once again, he produced immediately.

As a rookie in 2023, Elijah-Brown scored 19 goals and 21 assists for 40 points in just 12 regular-season games.

He finished fourth in Rivermen scoring despite missing four games.

There was also a commitment behind those numbers that people wouldn't necessarily see in the standings.

Elijah-Brown was making roughly a 90-minute drive each way from home to Six Nations for games and practices.

Three hours in the car.

Sometimes half of that coming after playing a senior lacrosse game.

He kept making the trip.

And he kept producing.

Continuing With the Rivermen

Elijah-Brown has remained an offensive threat with Six Nations.

We've seen it repeatedly.

A hat trick against Ennismore.

Another night with three goals and three assists.
Goals from the outside.

Goals from in close.

Power-play production.

Playmaking.

He's capable of attacking a defense in different ways.

And playing Senior B has also given him valuable repetitions against experienced box lacrosse players while his field career continued at Syracuse.

Moving Up to Major Series Lacrosse

Elijah-Brown has also taken the next step in summer lacrosse with the Owen Sound North Stars.

That's another significant jump.

Major Series Lacrosse means lining up against NLL defenders.

NLL goaltenders.

Canadian national-team players.

Some of the best box lacrosse players anywhere in the world.

The space disappears.

The decisions have to come quicker.

And mistakes get punished.

For a young offensive player, those repetitions are invaluable.

Owen Sound has given Elijah-Brown the opportunity to continue learning the senior game at its highest level in Ontario.

The NLL Draft

The professional opportunity arrived in 2025.
The Ottawa Black Bears selected Greg Elijah-Brown 69th overall in the fifth round of the NLL Entry Draft.

Ottawa actually traded with Georgia to acquire the selection and use it on him.

That's an interesting little detail.

The Black Bears didn't simply wait until their next pick.

They made a move.

Then they called Elijah-Brown's name.

Ottawa subsequently placed him on its Draft List while he continued his collegiate career at Syracuse.

Another door had opened.

The Journey Continues
Perhaps the most interesting part about Elijah-Brown's story is how many different levels of lacrosse intersect within it.

Oneida.
The Hill Academy.
Six Nations Rebels.
Burlington Chiefs.
Onondaga Community College.
Syracuse.
Six Nations Rivermen.
Owen Sound North Stars.
Haudenosaunee.
Ottawa Black Bears.
Box lacrosse.
Field lacrosse.
College lacrosse.
International lacrosse.
Senior lacrosse.
Professional opportunity.
Different versions of the game.

But the same game at the centre of all of it.

The Creator's Game.

By the Numbers

Hometown: Oneida, Ontario
Position: Forward
Shoots: Right
Minor/Club: Oneida Braves
Junior: Six Nations Rebels / Burlington Chiefs
High School: The Hill Academy
College: Onondaga Community College / Syracuse University
OCC Career: 102 goals, 81 assists, 183 points — 26 games
2023 OCC: 58 goals, 47 assists, 105 points
Honour: JUCO All-American
2023 Six Nations Rivermen: 19 goals, 21 assists, 40 points — 12 games
International: Haudenosaunee Nationals
2022: World U21 Bronze Medal
2026: Pan-American Bronze Medal — 13 goals, 8 assists
NLL Draft: 69th Overall, 2025 — Ottawa Black Bears
MSL Team: Owen Sound North Stars

Gary Groob's Take

There are statistics in Greg Elijah-Brown's career that immediately jump off the page.

183 points in 26 games at Onondaga.

That's ridiculous production.

But the more I looked into Greg's story, the less I thought this biography should simply be about goals and assists.

There's something much bigger here.

Greg comes from Oneida Nation of the Thames.

He played for the Oneida Braves.

His father coached him.

Then lacrosse takes him from Oneida to Onondaga and eventually to Syracuse University.
Think about that journey.

And think about the history surrounding the game in that part of New York.

I found it particularly interesting that when Greg talked about choosing Syracuse, its Native American history was part of the reason.
I think that matters.

Because for Greg, lacrosse isn't something that began when somebody handed him a stick at school.

This game has always been around him.

Now, from a purely lacrosse standpoint, there's something else I like about his development.

At Onondaga, Greg was putting up huge numbers.

Then he gets to Syracuse.

Different level.

Different role.

Suddenly you're not necessarily going to have the ball in your stick all night.

So what does he do?

He finds a role on the man-up.

Five goals in 2025.

Every single one on the extra-man unit.

That's adapting.

I've seen the offensive ability myself with the Six Nations Rivermen.

Greg can shoot it.

He can finish inside.

He can distribute.

When he gets going, goals can come quickly.

And now he's getting Major Series Lacrosse experience with Owen Sound.

That's another step.

The defenders get better.

The goalies get better.

The openings get smaller.

Exactly what a young offensive player needs.

Then Ottawa trades for the 69th pick in the NLL Draft and uses it on him.

Another step.

I also can't overlook what he's done wearing the Haudenosaunee jersey.

A bronze medal at the U21 World Championship.
Then this summer, 21 points at the Pan-American Championships and another bronze medal.

There's pride attached to that jersey that goes far beyond lacrosse statistics.

And maybe that's what brings this whole story together for me.

Greg Elijah-Brown has travelled a long way in lacrosse.

But in another sense, he hasn't travelled very far at all.

The game he learned at home in Oneida is still the game taking him everywhere.

Oneida to Onondaga.
Onondaga to Syracuse.
Six Nations to Owen Sound.
Haudenosaunee to the international stage.
And now the National Lacrosse League is waiting.

The journey keeps getting bigger.

But the Creator's Game remains at the centre of it.

That's why Greg Elijah-Brown belongs among the Stars of MSL.

— Gary Groob