| Gender: | m |
| Position: | Forward |
| Shoots: | Left |
| Height Ft: | 6 |
| Height In: | 0 |
| Weight Lb: | 196 |
| Nationality: | Canadian |
| Nll Draft: | 5th overall |
| Nll Draft Year: | 2002 |
| Nll Draft Team: | New York Saints |
| Birth Date: | May 19, 1980 |
| Birth Place: | Lantzville, British Columbia |
| Career Start: | 2003-2012 and 2014 |
| Former Nll Teams: | Colorado Mammoth New York Saints |
Nick Carlson (born May 19, 1980) is a former lacrosse player for the Colorado Mammoth in the National Lacrosse League.
Carlson was born in the small town of Lantzville, British Columbia, and grew up playing box lacrosse in the Nanaimo Minor Lacrosse Association.[1] [2] He was not introduced to outdoor lacrosse until his junior year of high school.[1]
Carlson played college lacrosse at Limestone University in Gaffney, South Carolina, where he helped the Saints win the 2000 NCAA Division II tournament.[3] As a sophomore in 2001, he earned Deep South Conference Player of the Year honors after setting program records for points in a season (83) and goals in a game (10).[1]
During the 2009 NLL season, he was named a reserve to the All-Star game.[4]
During his freshman year of college, Carlson was called up to the Canada men's junior national team ahead of the 1999 Under-19 World Lacrosse Championships held in Australia.[2] He earned a silver medal as Canada lost to the United States in the final.
| Regular Season | Playoffs | ||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Season | Team | GP | G | A | Pts | LB | PIM | GP | G | A | Pts | LB | PIM | ||
| 2003 | New York | 12 | 5 | 9 | 14 | 44 | 24 | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | ||
| 2004 | Colorado | 12 | 2 | 9 | 11 | 50 | 12 | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | ||
| 2005 | Colorado | 16 | 6 | 12 | 18 | 61 | 38 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 2 | ||
| 2006 | Colorado | 16 | 14 | 15 | 29 | 56 | 51 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 6 | 14 | 10 | ||
| 2007 | Colorado | 8 | 3 | 4 | 7 | 23 | 12 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 2 | ||
| 2008 | Colorado | 16 | 8 | 7 | 15 | 58 | 23 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 8 | 0 | ||
| 2009 | Colorado | 16 | 4 | 14 | 18 | 83 | 20 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 4 | ||
| NLL Totals | 96 | 42 | 70 | 112 | 375 | 180 | 7 | 3 | 11 | 14 | 28 | 18 | |||