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Princeton University Athletics
Men's Soccer Celebrates 11 Seniors in Class of 2026
October 29, 2025 | Men's Soccer
PRINCETON, N.J. – The #5 Princeton men’s soccer team will celebrate its seniors in the Class of 2026 this Saturday as the Tigers host Dartmouth with an Ivy Championship title on the line.
Since beginning their careers in the Orange & Black four years ago, this extraordinary class has led the Tigers to unprecedented success.
From winning Princeton’s first-ever Ivy League Tournament Championship in 2024, to leading the nation in RPI and earning the highest ranking in program history this season, the Class of 2026 has left a significant impact on Princeton Soccer both on and off the field.
As the team looks to celebrate these 11 Tigers before gearing up for postseason, let’s meet the Princeton Men’s Soccer Class of 2026!
#28 Sully Atkin
A member of the talented Tiger goalkeeping squad, Atkin appeared in two games during his career and has been a spirited, passionate and integral leader of the team since walking on his freshman Fall.
On campus, he is a member of the Tiger Sustainable Investment Group and University Cottage Club. Atkin is also the president of the Princeton Corporate Finance Club.
Studying economics and history at Princeton, Atkin’s thesis will examine the tariffs levied on pharmaceutical-exporting companies in the EU and the impact they have on health outcomes in the United States.
Looking back on his time in the Orange & Black, Atkin says his favorite memory is the come-from-behind victory over Cornell in the Ivy League Tournament semifinal last year. He said, “After two hard years of not a lot of wins, it felt great to finally get some recognition for all the hard work the entire team had been putting in and get a chance to compete in the NCAA Tournament.”
hang it in the l?o?u?v?r?e? philadelphia museum of art ?????
— Princeton Men’s Soccer (@PrincetonMSoc) November 18, 2024
Your 2024 Ivy Tournament Champions ????#PrincetonSoccer #WhosNext pic.twitter.com/lcKv55y2gS
“Off the field, my favorite memories have been little moments with my teammates at team meals, on bus rides, or just hanging out in each others’ room,” Atkin added. “Even though they were small moments that seemed insignificant at the time, I'll look back fondly on them for the rest of my life.”
After graduation, Atkin, from Arlington, Va., plans to move to New York City to work in investment banking.
#8 Gabriel Duchovny
Duchovny, a Brooklyn, N.Y. native, has been a strong presence for Princeton in the midfield over the course of his four years.
This season, Duchovny has appeared in 13 matches for the Tigers so far. Last season, he scored an outstanding goal from near-midfield as he led Princeton to a win over Columbia. The goal was voted the TopDrawerSoccer 2024 Goal of the Year.
@TopDrawerSoccer fans have good taste ????? This screamer from Gabe Duchovny was voted your TDS goal of the year!! ??#PrincetonSoccer #WhosNext pic.twitter.com/Y6cDscuF3p
— Princeton Men’s Soccer (@PrincetonMSoc) January 3, 2025
An Academic All-Ivy and CSC Academic All-District honoree, Duchovny has been the embodiment of what it means to be a true student-athlete. Duchovny is a classics major at Princeton, also minoring in values and public life. His thesis will explore organized crime in ancient Rome.
On campus, Duchovny participates in the Tiger Pals mentorship program. He is also involved with the Second Chance Project, which allows students to work on cases, prepare motions, and observe court proceedings while assisting eligible state prison inmates with clemency applications.
Duchovny cites winning the 2024 Ivy League Tournament as his favorite memory with the program.
#25 Stephen Duncan
Defender Stephen Duncan has been a leader for Princeton throughout his time in the Orange & Black.
Showing courage and resiliency while having to miss parts of several seasons due to injury, Duncan was a freshman for the Tigers during the 2021 7-0 Ivy League Championship campaign, starting some key games down the stretch and even starting the Tigers' First Round game in the NCAA Tournament. Now a senior after taking a gap year in 2022, Duncan looks ahead to playing for another Ivy Championship title this season.
Majoring in economics, Duncan will study how performance affects the transfer market value of European goalkeepers for his thesis.
On campus, Duncan is part of Athletes in Action, the Princeton Christian Fellowship, and the Reading with the Tigers program.
After graduation, Duncan plans to stay in his home state of New Jersey to work for a private investment firm specializing in venture capital, private equity, and real estate development.
Looking ahead to Senior Day and his time beyond Princeton, Duncan says that the team’s trip abroad to Portugal in the spring of 2025 was a favorite memory of his time with the program.
He adds, “I love my family and none of this would ever be a reality without them.”
#13 Will Francis
Francis, an Operations Research & Financial Engineering (ORFE) major from San Diego, Calif., has been a dangerous piece of the Tiger offense during his time with the team.
Last season, Francis scored three goals, including a goal against Harvard and a game-winner against Brown as the Tigers chased a 5-2 finish in the league. The year before, Francis had four goals and one assist, scoring the equalizing goal against Yale.
So far this season, Francis has appeared eight matches while missing the first few games due to injury.
In addition to his ORFE major, Francis minors in classics. He is also involved in the SABR Tooth Tigers on campus, a club that performs data analytics for the Princeton baseball team.
His senior thesis will look to predict hitting outcomes across player archetypes through Markovian, Bayesian, and other probabilistic models within college baseball, utilizing a metric he created called “swing time” which combines bat speed and swing length.
His favorite memories over the years with the team have been the class tournaments which take place during the last practice of the year.
#34 Giuliano Fravolini Whitchurch
The rock of the Tigers, senior captain Whitchurch has been a leader on and off the field for Princeton.
Since his freshman year, Whitchurch has been a consistent starter for the Tigers. Last season, he started all 19 matches, averaging the full 90 in each. He has reprised his role on the Tiger back line this season as well.
One of the best centerbacks in the nation, Whitchurch is on the MAC Hermann Trophy Watch List, making both the preseason and midseason lists. He is one of just four defenders nationally to be considered for the award.
Last year, Whitchurch was a First Team All-Ivy and All-Ivy Tournament Team selection. He also earned CSC Academic All-District honors.
On campus, Whitchurch is a SCORRE leader (Strength in Coaching on Relationships, Respect and Equality), a Student-Athlete Wellness Leader, and a member of Cannon Dial Elm.
An economics major with minors in Italian and optimization and quantitative decision science, Whitchurch’s thesis will be “Nationality-Based Wage Premiums in European Football: How Player Quality, National Team Success, and Global Events Shape Salaries.”
Looking beyond graduation, Whitchurch wants to stay involved in sports, whether it's working a front office role, doing sports consulting, or even playing professionally.
His favorite memory with the program thus far has been winning the 2024 Ivy League Tournament.
#4 Jack Hunt
Fellow captain of the Tigers, Hunt has been an energetic engine in the Tiger midfield.
A 2024 All-Ivy Honorable Mention, Hunt has been a critical part of the Tigers’ success both through last year’s Ivy League Tournament run and this year’s dominant season.
Studying economics with a minor in entrepreneurship, Hunt is working on his senior thesis: “Where to Build, What to Build, and Why: An Empirical Framework for Optimal Luxury Hospitality and Short-Term Rental Development.”
Outside of the team, Hunt serves as president of the Princeton Real Estate Club and an elected member of the Student-Athlete Service Council. He is also a member of the Entrepreneurship Club and University Cottage Club.
After graduation, Hunt, a native of Coronado, Calif., plans to work in commercial real estate in New York City.
On the field, Hunt says his favorite memory with the program is winning the Ivy League Tournament. Off the field though, he says his favorite moments have been spending time with the team in the locker room, every away-trip bus ride, and every hotel stay as the Tigers got to travel and experience other teams’ cities and campuses.
As Hunt looks ahead to Senior Day, he added: “Shoutout to my parents for their unwavering support and love. I simply wouldn't be here without them, and I owe everything to them.”
#11 Daniel Ittycheria
Princeton’s two-year leading scorer Ittycheria has been a key figure in the team’s success over the last four years.
Currently leading the Tigers again while tying for first in the Ivy League, Ittycheria has eight goals on the season so far. In each of the last two seasons, he led the Tigers with nine per year.
A native of Warren, N.J., Ittycheria was drafted by D.C. United in the MLS Superdraft 2025 last December.
He was a 2023 First Team and a 2024 Second Team All-Ivy Honoree. He was also named the Ivy League Tournament Most Outstanding Player last year, after his three goals across both games of the tournament helped Princeton win the title.
RIGHT ON TARGET ??
— NCAA Soccer (@NCAASoccer) November 16, 2024
Daniel Ittycheria gets his head on it to send @PrincetonMSoc to the Ivy League championship!#NCAASoccer x ?? ESPN+pic.twitter.com/MqYw9ZfIKE
In the Ivy League Tournament semifinal against #16 Cornell, Ittycheria led the Tigers to a 3-2 come-from-behind victory in double overtime as he scored the Tigers’ first goal of the match and the golden-goal game-winner. That night, he says, is a favorite memory as he looks back on his time with the team thus far.
Outside of the team, Ittycheria is part of ASAP (Asian Student Athletes at Princeton), Tiger JPals, Princeton Global Scholars Alliance, and University Cottage Club. He also serves as a Student-Athlete Wellness Leader.
An economics major, Ittycheria’s thesis will examine the effect of NBA teams’ performances on their local economies, and what indicators can be used to measure their impact.
#10 Jack Jasinski
Jasinski, an anchor for the Tiger back line over his four years, has been a consistent starter and critical element of Princeton’s success since his freshman year.
Last season, Jasinski led the Tigers in assists with nine on the season. The stat put him third all-time in the Princeton record book for most assists in a single season. With 20 over the course of his career, and counting, he sits at fourth in the record book.
To start this season, Jasinski scored three goals and earned three assists across the Tigers’ first four games.
Jasinski is a two-time Second Team All-Ivy honoree (2023, 24) and a 2024 Ivy League All-Tournament selection.
Studying economics, Jasinski is working on his senior thesis "Pathways to Pro: An Empirical Analysis of Homegrown and Drafted Player Outcomes in Major League Soccer."
On campus, Jasinski is a member of University Cottage Club. He and Whitchurch also founded a startup aimed at developing a deodorizing athletic shoe bag.
Beyond Princeton, Jasinski, a Charlotte, N.C. native and product of the Philadelphia Union academy, hopes to play soccer professionally.
His favorite memory with the program was winning the Ivy League Tournament last year.
#22 Ian MacIver
MacIver, a defender from Ellicott City, Md., has appeared in two games for the Tigers this year while appearing in a total of nine over the course of his career.
Contributing much to the team while having to overcome serious injury, MacIver is renowned for his strong defending, accuracy and unselfish play.
A mechanical and aerospace engineering major with a minor in classics, MacIver’s senior thesis will examine turbulent flow particle motion modeling with nuclear fusion applications.
On campus, he is a member of the Princeton Electric Speedboat Club.
As he looks back on his time with the program, MacIver’s favorite memory was the team’s trip to Portugal last spring, where he and several Tigers learned to surf.
#19 Will Travis
Travis, a midfielder from Evanston, Ill., has appeared in two games for the Tigers this season.
Travis majors in psychology at Princeton, with minors in neuroscience and global health policy.
On campus, Travis is involved with a wide array of extracurriculars related to his athletic and academic interests. He serves as a Princeton Peer Health Advisor, a Health Professions Advising Mentor, and a member of the 2025 Engaged Athlete Fellowship.
His research pursuits have included work with the Princeton Intelligent Performance and Adaptation Lab and the High Meadows Environmental Institute.
He also volunteers at Penn Medicine Princeton Health, and serves as a 2025 Science Outreach Fellow.
Travis’s thesis, “Caregiving Relationships in Neuro-Oncology: A Cross-Cultural Investigation of Health Systems, Burden, and Practice,” will be a qualitative study involving observation, interview and transcript analysis looking at clinician relationships with their patience.
Over the summer, Travis worked in Mexico City, Chicago and virtually in Leeds to collect data across different health systems and care structures. His work will aim to understand what clinicians value and prioritize when caring for terminally ill patient populations.
Looking at his time with the team thus far, Travis’s favorite memories include team dinners over the years, and the team’s trip to Portugal.
After graduation, Travis hopes to work in healthcare policy before applying to medical school.
#18 Sam Vigilante
Last but not least, Vigilante has been a fierce competitor for Princeton in the midfield, starting 12 games this season so far.
Vigilante scored his first career goal on Saturday as the Tigers dominated Yale, 4-0. He also picked up an assist in the Tigers’ opener against Rutgers.
Last season, Vigilante was again a consistent starter, appearing in 15 matches while tallying an assist at St. John’s. He also played an influential role in the Tigers’ run to the Ivy League Tournament Championship.
Winning the tournament, he says, was one of Vigilante’s favorite memories with the program. Specifically, the team's 3-2 double overtime semifinal victory over #16 Cornell stands out to him.
We'll see you on Sunday, @PrincetonMSoc! ???? pic.twitter.com/J43nWBhFs3
— Ivy League (@IvyLeague) November 16, 2024
“Winning the championship game against Penn was obviously as good of an ending to that weekend as we could have asked for,” said Vigilante. “But, I think my favorite moment from that experience was the Cornell (semifinal) game. The way we turned the game around and refused to lose feels sort of like an analogy for our class's time here.”
An economics major from Charlottesville, Va., Vigilante is writing his senior thesis “Ecosystem Insurance: The Economic Costs of Habitat Degradation and the Optimal Allocation of Conservation Investment.” He will explore how to account for uncertainty in the ecological and economic consequences of habitat loss, and look at what investment strategies minimize long-run welfare losses from ecosystem degradation.
Up Next
The Class of 2026 and the rest of the Tigers will play for an Ivy Championship title and the hosting rights for the 2025 Ivy League Tournament this Saturday as they host Dartmouth. Kickoff is set for 4 p.m. in Roberts Stadium.