Princeton Has Five Named First-Team All-Ivy; Buonanno Is Unanimous Top Rookie
April 30, 2025 | Men's Lacrosse
For the first time since its 2001 NCAA championship season, the Princeton men’s lacrosse team has five first-team All-Ivy League selections. In all, Princeton was honored with nine All-Ivy selections, the Rookie of the Year and the Co-Coaching Staff of the Year.
The five first-team selections were attackman Coulter Mackesy, who was named unanimously, defenseman Colin Mulshine, midfielder Tucker Wade, goalie Ryan Croddick and shortstick defensive midfielder Cooper Mueller. Croddick was also the league’s Goalie of the Year.
Peter Buonnano was the unanimous Rookie of the Year. The coaching staff of Matt Madalon, Jeremy Hirsch, Jim Mitchell and Casey Dowd — along with Director of Operations Drew Cottrell and strength and conditioning coach Tony Rosato — were the co-Coaching Staff of the Year, along with Dartmouth’s.
Attackman Nate Kabiri, midfielder Chad Palumbo and defenseman Michael Bath were second-team All-Ivy picks. Shortstick defensive midfielder Jackson Green earned honorable mention honors.
Sean Cameron was the team’s Academic All-Ivy League selection.
Mackesy was named first-team All-Ivy League for the second time in his career and was an All-Ivy pick for the third time. He enters this weekend’s Ivy League tournament with 37 goals and 15 assists on the year and 160 goals and 237 points for his career. He currently stands three goals away from tying Jesse Hubbard’s 27-year-old school career record and 10 points away from thing Kevin Lowe for second all-time at Princeton.
Mulshine was named first-team All-Ivy League for the second straight year. Regularly assigned to cover the opposing team’s top attackman, Mulshine has six caused turnovers and 14 ground balls, but those numbers do nothing to explain his impact as a one-on-one stopper. Mulshine has not committed a penalty this season and in fact has only one for his entire career, two years ago, despite being a four-year starter.
Wade has 18 goals and four assists on the year and has seven multi-goal games this season. He’s also scored Princeton’s first goal five times in 13 games. He is Princeton’s first sophomore midfielder to be first-team All-Ivy since Tom Schreiber in 2012.
Croddick leads the Ivy League and is third in Division I in save percentage (.604). Croddick is also the Ivy leader in goals-against average (9.82), is the Ivy leader and second in Division I in saves per game (14.77), is a three-time Ivy League Defensive Player of the Week and is one of two Division I goalies with at least 22 saves in two different games this season. Croddick also has three assists, tying for the most points by a Princeton goalie in a season since Bill Cronin in 1973.
Mueller has four goals, one assist, 10 caused turnovers and 29 ground balls. The only Princeton shortsticks to reach those numbers are Zach Currier (three times) and Jake Stevens. Mueller joins his father Kit in earning first-team All-Ivy League honors, as Kit, Class of 1991, was a three-time first-team selection and two-time Ivy League men’s basketball Player of the Year.
Buonanno is Princeton’s first Ivy Rookie of the Year since 2013. He has 12 goals and five assists in the last seven games after having one goal and one assist in the first six. Buonanno started the season on 3 for 13 shooting and is 10 for 22 since, including 7 for 11 the last two weeks.
Kabiri, who has 21 goals and 22 assists, is the sixth Princeton sophomore ever to reach 100 career points, something he did last week against Yale. Kabiri, who has 53G, 47A for his first two seasons, joins Kevin Lowe (Hall of Fame), Jesse Hubbard (Hall of Fame),Ryan Boyle (Hall of Fame), Michael Sowers (will be in the Hall of Fame) and teammate Coulter Mackesy.
Palumbo has 16 goals and 13 assist for the season as he earned second-team All-Ivy honors for the second straight year. Palumbo was also an Ivy League all-tournament team selection a year ago.
Bath has 20 caused turnovers and 30 ground balls for the season and is currently third all-time at Princeton in CTs with 62, five away from tying George Baughan for second. Bath has at least two caused turnovers in eight of 13 games this year.
Green has four goals, three caused turnovers and 12 ground balls for the season. A wide receiver on the football team, Green was honored despite missing three games due to injury.
Cameron is a history major with a certificate in entrepreneurship. He also has eight goals this season and 44 career goals.
ALL-IVY FIRST TEAM^
CJ Kirst, Cornell (Sr., A)*
Coulter Mackesy, Princeton (Sr., A)*
Sam King, Harvard (Sr., A)
Hugh Kelleher, Cornell (Sr., M)
Willem Firth, Cornell (So., M)
Logan Ip, Harvard (Jr., M)
Tucker Wade, Princeton (So. M)
Jayson Singer, Cornell (Sr., D)
Brendan Lavelle, Penn (Sr., D)
Colin Mulshine, Princeton (Sr., D)
Ryan Croddick, Princeton (Jr., G)
Jack Cascadden, Cornell (Jr., FO)*
Walker Wallace, Cornell (Sr., LSM)
Cooper Mueller, Princeton (SSDM)
ALL-IVY SECOND TEAM^
Ryan Goldstein, Cornell (So., A)
Michael Long, Cornell (Sr., A)
Thomas Power, Dartmouth (Jr., A)
Jack Speidell, Harvard (So. A)
Nate Kabiri, Princeton (So., A)
Leo Johnson, Yale (Sr., A)
Chad Palumbo, Princeton (Jr., M)
Max Krevsky, Yale (Sr., M)
Aidan McLane, Brown (Sr., M)
Griffin Scane, Penn (Jr., M)
Charlie Cave, Brown (Jr., D)
Michael Bath, Princeton (Sr., D)
Martin Nelson, Harvard (Sr., D)
Jack Stuzin, Yale (Sr., D)
Mason Morel, Dartmouth (Sr., G)
Spencer Reagan, Dartmouth (Fr., FO)
Ryan McLaughlin, Penn (Jr., LSM)
Chris Davis, Cornell (Sr., SSDM)
HONORABLE MENTION
Emmett Paradine, Dartmouth (Jr., M)
Thomas Goguen, Dartmouth (Jr., D)
Brendan Staub, Cornell (Jr., D)
Patrick Pisano, Yale (Jr., D)
Wyatt Knust, Cornell (Sr., G)
Emmet Carroll, Penn (Sr., G)
Machado Rodriguez, Yale (Sr., FO)
Ray Dearth, Harvard (Sr., SSDM)
Jackson Green, Princeton (So., SSDM)
Owen Guest, Harvard (Jr., SSDM)
ATTACKMAN OF THE YEAR
CJ Kirst, Cornell (Sr., A)*
MIDFIELDER OF THE YEAR
Hugh Kelleher, Cornell (Sr., M)
DEFENSIVE PLAYER OF THE YEAR
Jayson Singer, Cornell (Sr., D)
GOALTENDER OF THE YEAR
Ryan Croddick, Princeton (Jr., G)
ROOKIE OF THE YEAR
Peter Buonnano, Princeton (Fr., A) *
CO-COACHING STAFF OF THE YEAR
Dartmouth
CO-COACHING STAFF OF THE YEAR
Princeton
*unanimous selection
^team expanded due to ties in voting