Jaren Woeppel sat out Navy’s 11-9 loss to No. 5 Maryland this past Saturday due to a nagging hamstring injury, and while the senior long-stick midfielder was chomping to play, he ultimately agreed with coach Richie Meade’s decision.

“I guess I put up as much resistance as I could, but pretty much, what he says, goes. And I wasn’t going to argue it,” Woeppel said. “I think it was a wise choice. It’s my last year, and Coach didn’t want me to do anything where it wasn’t 100 percent and I still played on it and I hurt it even more.”

Woeppel, who is believed to be the first long-stick midfielder to earn the Patriot League’s preseason Defensive Player of the Year, re-aggravated a right hamstring injury that forced him to miss back-to-back losses to Lafayette and Towson.