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Princeton University Athletics
Princeton University
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No. 3-4-5 Princeton Makes First Trip To Vermont
April 02, 2026 | Men's Lacrosse
PRINCETON (7-2, 2-1 Ivy League) vs. VERMONT (4-4, 2-1 America East)
Saturday • April 4 • Noon
Virtue Field • Burlington, Vt.
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A – America East
Princeton and Vermont meet for the second time after last year’s 10-5 Tiger win. Princeton is 11-1 all-time against teams in the America East (1-0 vs. Vermont, 2-0 vs. Binghamton, 3-0 vs. UMBC, 3-0 vs. NJIT, 2-1 vs. Albany).
B – Balance
Princeton is second in the Ivy League at 13.22 goals per game but does not have a single player in the Ivy League top 10 in individual goals per game.
C – Chad
Chad Palumbo has 10 goals and four assists in the last three games after having seven goals and eight assists in the first five.
D – Defense
Jack Stahl has had more caused turnovers than goals allowed by the player he’s been guarding in seven of the eight games since he’s moved to a starting defenseman spot from longstick midfielder. Stahl was named Inside Lacrosse’s No. 1 breakout player of the season two weeks ago.
E – Extraordinary
Princeton is ranked No. 3 in the current RPI, with wins over No. 1 North Carolina and No. 2 Syracuse, as well as No. 13 Rutgers, No. 19 Yale, No. 21 Maryland., No. 32 Lehigh and No. 34 Brown. Princeton’s losses are to No. 8 Penn State and No. 14 Cornell.
F – First
Princeton is first in the Ivy League in groundballs per game (33.9) and fewest turnovers per game (13.22).
G – Goalies
Lehigh goalie Kasey Heath made 25 saves against Princeton Tuesday night, tying the Sherrerd Field record set by Princeton goalie Ryan Croddick earlier this season against North Carolina.
H – History
Nate Kabiri enters the game with 16 goals and 20 assists. Should he get four more goals this season, he would become only the fourth player in program history with three seasons of at least 20 goals and 20 assists, joining Michael Sowers (2017, 18, 19), Tom Schreiber (2012, 13, 14) and Dave Huebeck (1978, 79, 80). No Princeton player has ever done so four times (Sowers had 16, 31A in five games in 2020 before the season was cancelled by the pandemic).
I – Ivy League
Harvard is the lone unbeaten team in Ivy League games at 2-0, followed by 2-1 Princeton, Cornell and Penn, 1-2 Yale and 0-2 Dartmouth and Brown. This weekend’s games will have Yale at Dartmouth, Brown at Harvard and Cornell at Penn. Princeton is in its non-league weekend and will play at Vermont Saturday.
J – JG
Jackson Green, a shortstick defensive midfielder, is also a wide receiver on Princeton’s football team, where he caught 17 passes for 233 yards and three TDs. He is the first Princeton player since Mike Neary ’82 to have at least one goal in lacrosse and one touchdown in football for Princeton.
K – Kabiri
Nate Kabiri ranks fifth among active juniors in Division I in career assists (80) and points (154) and leads the Ivy League in assists per game (2.22). Kabiri leads all current Princeton players in career goals (80), assists (74) and points (154).
L – Leaders
Princeton has three 2026 captains — Colin Burns, Cooper Kistler, Chad Palumbo.
M – Man down
Princeton entered the game against Lehigh last in Division I in extra-man defense, including allowing six such goals against Brown (despite committing four penalties). Princeton then held Lehigh without an EMO goal in five chances Tuesday night.
N – NCAA
Princeton has played in each of the last four NCAA tournaments, with one Final Four and one quarterfinal appearance. Princeton has also won two of the last three Ivy League tournaments and reached the final of the other. In all, Princeton is 8-5 in postseason games in that time.
O – On A Roll
Princeton is 51-22 dating to the start of the 2022 season, with four NCAA tournament appearances in four seasons.
P – Parker
Freshman Parker Reynolds has seven goals and nine assists to date. Only three Princeton freshmen middies have ever reached double figures in goals and assists: Whitney Hayes and Scott Sowanick in 2004 and Tom Schreiber in 2011.
Q – Quite A Stat
Matt Madalon has a theory that a team should win the overwhelming amount of time when its face-off percentage and save percentage added together exceeds 1.000. In his career as Tiger head coach, his team has had 71 games in which its FO percentage added to its save percentage is greater than 1.000; its record in those games is 62-9, including the win over Lehigh Wednesday.
R – Rankings
Princeton is ranked No. 5 in this week’s Kane Inside Lacrosse Media Poll, No. 4 in the USILA coaches’ poll and No. 3 in the USA Lacrosse Magazine poll.
S – Shots
Princeton outshot Lehigh 58-28 Tuesday night. It was the largest shot-differential in a single game for Princeton since Matt Madalon became the head coach in 2016 and the fifth-highest single-game shot total in that time.
T – Tewaaraton
Princeton’s Peter Buonanno, Nate Kabiri and Jack Stahl were added to the Tewaaraton Watchlist in the most recent additions announced last week. Ryan Croddick and Chad Palumbo were preseason selections.
U – Unclear
Princeton had 11 failed turnovers against Brown last Saturday and then went 21 for 22 against Lehigh Tuesday night.
V – Vana
Jake Vana scored twice against Lehigh. He has either no goals (five times) or two or more goals (four times) in every game this year.
W – Wade
Tucker Wade, who leads the team with 18 goals, has scored the first Princeton goal in each of the last two games and 12 times in the 26 games since the start of last season, including each of the last two.
X – Face-Off X
Andrew McMeekin holds the Princeton record for career groundballs with 364 and is second all-time at Princeton in face-off wins with 579, trailing the school record of 646, held by Greg Waller (1989-92). McMeekin is second among active Division I players in career face-off attempts (1,101), face-off wins (579) and groundballs (363), trailing Canisius’ Micah Hanson (by at least 100) in all three.
Y – Yearly
Colin Burns and Nate Kabiri are in Year 6 of playing together, between club ball, Georgetown Prep and now Princeton. Burns and Kabiri are the only two current Princeton players who have started every game of their careers.
Z – Zinger
Princeton has five players whose fathers competed at Princeton, two of whom played lacrosse. Freshman Evan Calkins is the son of Ed Calkins, a midfielder on the 1992 NCAA championship team. Sophomore Kevin Morrow is the son of David Morrow, the 1993 Division I Player of the Year. Sophomore Porter Malkiel is the son of Jon Malkiel, a member of the 1992 and 1994 NCAA title teams. Junior Cooper Mueller is the son of Kit Mueller, the 1990 and 1991 Ivy League men’s basketball Player of the Year. Gus van Metzsch is the son of Roland von Metzsch, a football offensive lineman in the early 1990s.
