High School Career
Boyle is from Hunt Valley, Maryland. Some of his early lacrosse experiences were at the Cockeysville Rec program. He attended high school at the prestigious Gilman School in Baltimore, graduating in 2000. Boyle was the number one boy's lacrosse recruit in the nation as a senior. The Baltimore Sun selected him as their boy's lacrosse player of the year on the 2000 All-Metro boys lacrosse team as well as the 2000 All-Baltimore City/County boys lacrosse team. Boyle was a three-time All-Metro (1998, 1999, and 2000), four-time All-City (first team: 1998, 1999, and 2000; second team: 1997) attackman in lacrosse and two-time All-Metro quarterback in football (1998 and 1999). He led the lacrosse team to two Maryland Interscholastic Athletic Association A Conference championships in lacrosse (1998 and 2000) and two in football (1998 and 1999) including a 21–0 undefeated streak, while carrying a 4.0 grade point average. As a starting quarterback, his record was 26–2. Boyle, who started calling his own plays as a junior, amassed career totals of 3,593 passing yards and 2,051 rushing yards. In lacrosse he totaled 258 points. Boyle also played basketball in high school and was co-winner of the Greater Baltimore Chapter National Football Foundation Hall of Fame scholar athlete award as a senior. Boyle intended to play both football and lacrosse at Princeton.
As a sophomore option offense quarterback, he totaled 812 yards and five touchdowns rushing as well as 465 yards and four touchdowns passing. As a junior, he set the Maryland state high school single-season pass completion percentage record of 78 percent (surpassing 69.4 established by Ryan Fleetwood of Cambridge) on 117 of 150 passing for 1,908 yards and 20 touchdowns in addition to rushing for 535 yards and five touchdowns. As a senior, he went 76-for-107 passing (71 percent) for 1,220 yards and 14 touchdowns and 704 yards rushing with eight touchdowns as a senior. In the 1999 championship game 42–10 victory over McDonogh High School to cap a 10–0 season, Boyle rushed for 100 yards and completed 14 of 20 passes for 146 yards.
In lacrosse, as a freshman he made the second team of the 1997 All-Baltimore City/County boys lacrosse team. As a sophomore, he was All-Metro with 47 goals, 41 assists and 53 ground balls. in the 1998 championship game 16–12 victory over St. Paul's High School, he scored four goals and had an assist. As a junior he totaled 23 goals and 28 assists to go with 60 ground balls, even though he missed three games for a surgical procedure. The surgical procedure removed a hernia. He was voted All-American as a junior. He totaled 36 goals and 44 assists as a senior in 2000. In the 2000 lacrosse championship game, he had four goals and assist in the 10–8 victory over Boys' Latin School of Maryland.
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