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Chanenchuk Named Ivy Rookie Of the Year; Four Tigers First-Team
May 04, 2010 | Men's Lacrosse
In the last two years, Princeton has now doubled that.
Mike Chanenchuk earned unanimous first-team All-Ivy League honors and was also a unanimous choice of Ivy League Rookie of the Year in a vote of the league's eight head coaches.
Chanenchuk became the fourth Princeton freshman to be a first-team All-Ivy League pick. The first two were goalie Scott Bacigalupo in 1991 and attackman B.J. Prager in 1999, and the third was defenseman Chad Wiedmaier a year ago. Chanenchuk bcomes the first Princeton freshman middie to be so honored.
The theme for Princeton's honorees this year was clearly youth. Princeton had seven players earn All-Ivy recognition, with two freshmen, three sophomores, two juniors and no seniors honored.
Wiedmaier was also named a first-team All-Ivy League selection this year, despite missing the first six games of the year after undergoing knee surgery. Wiedmaier and Chanenchuk were joined by junior Jack McBride and sophomore Tyler Fiorito as first-team All-Ivy picks.
Junior Long Ellis and freshman Jeff Froccaro were second-team selections, and sophomore John Cunningham was an honorable mention pick.
Cornell's Rob Pannell was a unanimous choice for Ivy Player of the Year, and he and Chanenchuk were the only two unanimous first-team selections.
Princeton, Cornell and Brown combined for nine of the 10 first-team selections. Those three will be joined this weekend in Ithaca by Yale for the first Ivy League tournament.
Before the tournament, Chanenchuk has already scored 27 goals to break Prager's 11-year-old record for goals in a season by a Princeton freshman. Chanenchuk, who has six games with at least three goals, became Princeton's ninth Rookie of the Year and the first since McBride two years ago.
Wiedmaier underwent knee surgery last fall that revealed greater damage than originally thought, and he was sidelined for the first six games of the year. Despite not being in game shape, he came back to be Princeton's dominant defender, including holding Pannell - the nation's leading scorer - to a single assist in last Saturday's game.
McBride tied Chanenchuk for the team-lead with 27 goals, and he leads the team with 39 points. Like Wiedmaier, McBride is a repeat first-team All-Ivy pick.
Fiorito saw his save percentage soar above .630 once Wiedmaier returned. Fiorito made at least 14 saves in four of six Ivy games.
Ellis has played close defense, longstick midfield and even shortstick midfield this season. He leads the team in caused turnovers with 16.
Froccaro made an immediate impact with seven goals in his first two games, including four against Johns Hopkins at M&T Bank Stadium at the Face-Off Classic. He heads into the Ivy tournament with 15 goals and six assists, and he has been Princeton's top face-off man (81x155, .523). He also is 2 for 2 on face-offs in overtime, and he scored the game-winner against Penn in overtime and against Yale with 37 seconds left in regulation.
Cunningham is the first Princeton longstick since John Cunningham in 1998 to score four goals in a season. He also leads the team in ground balls with 46 and has 11 caused turnoers.
Men's Lacrosse All-Ivy - 2010
* Unanimous selection
PLAYER OF THE YEAR
*Rob Pannell, Cornell (So., Smithtown, N.Y.)
ROOKIE OF THE YEAR
*Mike Chanenchuk, Princeton (Fr., Poquott, N.Y.)
FIRST TEAM
Attack
Thomas Muldoon, Brown (Sr., Oakton, Va.)
*Rob Pannell, Cornell (So., Smithtown, N.Y.)
Jack McBride, Princeton (Jr., Madison, N.J.)
Midfield
David Hawley, Brown (Jr., New Canaan, Conn.)
Reade Seligmann, Brown (Sr., Essex Falls, N.J.)
*Mike Chanenchuk, Princeton (Fr., Poquott, N.Y.)
Defense
Pierce Derkac, Cornell (Sr., Keswick, Va.)
Casey Hingtgen, Dartmouth (Sr., Carlsbad, Calif.)
Chad Wiedmaier, Princeton (So., Chatam, N.J.)
Goalie
Tyler Fiorito, Princeton (So., Phoenix, Md.)
SECOND TEAM
Attack
Ari Sussman, Dartmouth (Sr., New Haven, Conn.)
Dean Gibbons, Harvard (Jr., Garden City, N.Y.)
Matt Gibson, Yale (So., Point Lookout, N.Y.)
Midfield
Austin Boykin, Cornell (Sr., Lutherville, Md.)
Terry White, Harvard (So., Summit, N.J.)
Jeff Froccaro, Princeton (Fr., Sands Point, N.Y.)
Greg Mahony, Yale (So., Mercer Island, Wash.)
Nick Tsouris, Yale (Sr., Stony Brook, N.Y.)
Defense
Peter Fallon, Brown (Jr., Baltimore, Md.)
Brett Hughes, Penn (Sr., York Beach, Maine)
Long Ellis, Princeton (Jr., Darien, Conn.)
Goalie
Fergus Campbell, Dartmouth (So., New Canaan, Conn.)
HONORABLE MENTION
Attack
Corey Winkoff, Penn (Jr., Laurel Hollow, N.Y.)
Midfield
David Lau, Cornell (Jr., Syosset, N.Y.)
John Conneely, Penn (So., Dix Hills, N.Y.)
Al Kohart, Penn (Jr., Port Jefferson Station, N.Y.))
Justin Lynch, Penn (Sr., Garden City, N.Y.)
Defense
Max Feely, Cornell (Jr., Washington, D.C.)
Ben Smith, Harvard (Sr., Longmeadow, Mass.)
John Cunningham, Princeton (So, Fairfield, Conn.)
Peter Johnson, Yale (Fr., Minnetonka, Minn.)
Mike McCormack, Yale (Fr., West Islip, N.Y.)
Goalie
Matt Chriss, Brown (Jr., Lutherville, Md.)
Johnathan Falcone, Yale (Jr., Flemington, N.J.)