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Lawson Earns CSC Academic All-America Honors
July 09, 2025 | Men's Fencing
Nicholas Lawson, a Princeton fencing alum who finished his Tiger career last winter with a second athletic All-American honor, has been voted as a second-team College Sports Communicators Academic All-America honoree, the organization announced.
Lawson was one of 44 honorees across the Academic All-America at-large first, second and third teams. CSC awards Academic All-District and Academic All-America honors in men's and women's soccer, women's volleyball, football, men's and women's basketball, men's and women's swimming and diving, men's and women's tennis, softball and baseball, and the at-large honorees cover 23 NCAA sports. Schools can nominate up to six men and six women from those sports for Academic All-District honors, and from there, CSC members vote on a list of All-District honorees for All-America honors.
Lawson graduated in June with a bachelor's degree in physics and has done independent work at Princeton's Center for the Physics of Biological Function. He twice won the Princeton physics department's Allen G. Shenstone Prize for physics and the department's Manfred Pyka Memorial Prize for physics. A Phi Beta Kappa honoree, Lawson was one of five finalists across both men and women for the athletic department's 1916 Cup, given to the senior student-athlete with the top GPA, and was one of five finalists for the department's Roper Trophy, given to the top senior male student athlete. He plans to pursue a PhD in physics at Harvard.
On the fencing strip, Lawson was a 2022 and 2025 All-American honoree, making the NCAA épée final in 2022 and finishing ninth at NCAAs in 2025. He was the team's Academic All-Ivy League honoree in 2025 and was a first-team All-Ivy honoree as well in his senior year.
Lawson is the fourth Princeton men's fencer to earn CSC Academic All-America honors, following Harald Winkmann '95 in 1994, Jonathan Yergler '13 in 2012 and Tristan Szapary '24 last year.
Lawson was one of 44 honorees across the Academic All-America at-large first, second and third teams. CSC awards Academic All-District and Academic All-America honors in men's and women's soccer, women's volleyball, football, men's and women's basketball, men's and women's swimming and diving, men's and women's tennis, softball and baseball, and the at-large honorees cover 23 NCAA sports. Schools can nominate up to six men and six women from those sports for Academic All-District honors, and from there, CSC members vote on a list of All-District honorees for All-America honors.
Lawson graduated in June with a bachelor's degree in physics and has done independent work at Princeton's Center for the Physics of Biological Function. He twice won the Princeton physics department's Allen G. Shenstone Prize for physics and the department's Manfred Pyka Memorial Prize for physics. A Phi Beta Kappa honoree, Lawson was one of five finalists across both men and women for the athletic department's 1916 Cup, given to the senior student-athlete with the top GPA, and was one of five finalists for the department's Roper Trophy, given to the top senior male student athlete. He plans to pursue a PhD in physics at Harvard.
On the fencing strip, Lawson was a 2022 and 2025 All-American honoree, making the NCAA épée final in 2022 and finishing ninth at NCAAs in 2025. He was the team's Academic All-Ivy League honoree in 2025 and was a first-team All-Ivy honoree as well in his senior year.
Lawson is the fourth Princeton men's fencer to earn CSC Academic All-America honors, following Harald Winkmann '95 in 1994, Jonathan Yergler '13 in 2012 and Tristan Szapary '24 last year.
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