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No. 2 Princeton Faces Yale In Ivy Tournament Semifinal At Cornell
April 29, 2026 | Men's Lacrosse
PRINCETON (11-2, 5-1 Ivy League, co-champion) vs. YALE (9-4, 4-2 Ivy League)
IVY LEAGUE TOURNAMENT SEMIFINAL
Friday, May 1• 6:30 pm
Schoellkopf Field • Ithaca, N.Y.
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A – Again
Princeton and Yale meet for the 113th time in a series that dates to Oct. 14, 1882, and which the Tigers lead 81-30-2, including an 11-10 win earlier this season. Princeton and Yale have the third most-played rivalry in college lacrosse:
150 - Cornell vs. Hobart
129 - Johns Hopkins vs. Maryland
113 - Princeton vs. Yale
B – Back On March 14
Princeton defeated Yale 11-10 on March 14 in New Haven in the Ivy League opener for both. Princeton led 8-4 at halftime and 9-4 42 seconds into the third quarter before Yale outscored Princeton 6-2 the rest of the way, pulling to within one twice in the fourth quarter at 9-8 and then 11-10 with 14 seconds left. Russ Fitzgerald won the face-off after the last goal to run out the clock. The only player on either team with more than two goals was Princeton’s Jake Vana, who had three. The win was Princeton’s seventh straight over Yale; prior to that Yale had defeated Princeton six straight times.
C – Champions
Princeton and Cornell both finished 5-1 and shared the Ivy League championship. The Ivy League tournament will determine who gets the league’s automatic bid to the NCAA tournament, not who will be considered the 2026 Ivy League champion.
D – Down
Since allowing six man-down goals against Brown, Princeton has held its next five opponents to a combined 0 for 16 on extra man opportunities.
E – Extraordinary
Princeton’s current RPI is No. 2. The Tigers have wins over North Carolina (tied with Princeton at No. 2), as well as No. 5 Syracuse, No. 10 Maryland, No. 11 Harvard, No. 14 Yale, No. 16 Penn, No. 23 Rutgers, No. 27 Lehigh, No. 35 Brown, No. 37 Dartmouth and No. 49 Vermont, with losses to No. 7 Cornell and No. 15 Penn State.
F – Face-Offs
Andrew McMeekin has 633 career face-off wins, the second-highest total in Princeton history. He trails Greg Waller, Class of 1992, by 13 heading into the Yale game. McMeekin is 156x274 with 114 groundballs in 10 career postseason games between the Ivy tournament and the NCAA tournament.
G – Goals
Princeton has scored at least 15 goals in each of its last six game. The longest such streak in program history is seven games, set in 1996 (when Princeton won the third of its six NCAA championships and first of three in a row, something that not been equaled since).
H – Hot Streaks
Both Princeton and Yale enter the Ivy League semifinal having won six straight each. The teams were a combined 9-0 in April.
I – Ivy Tournament History
Princeton has won three Ivy League tournaments: the first one in 2010 and then back-to-back wins in 2023 and 2024. Matt Madalon has a 5-2 record as Princeton head coach in Ivy tournament games. Nate Kabiri and Chad Palumbo are tied for second at Princeton in career ILT goals with 12 each, behind only Mikey MacDonald’s 18. Kabiri is the Princeton all-time leader in assists with 10, and he (16) and Palumbo (15) are 3-4 at Princeton in ILT career points, behind MacDonald (24) and Coulter Mackesy (18). Andrew McMeekin’s 17 groundballs against Yale in the 2024 semifinal are the most by a Princeton player in an ILT game. McMeekin is a three-time All-Tournament Team selection (and the 2024 Most Outstanding Player), and Palumbo has been named to two All-Tournament Teams.
J – John Dunphey vs. John Dunphey
John Dunphey a year ago: 17 games, six goals, six assists, three multi-point games, .181 shooting percentage. John Dunphey this year: 13 games, 16 goals, 10 assists, six multi-point games, .457 shooting percentage.
K – Kabiri
Nate Kabiri is one of 10 Division I players — and along with Cornell’s Ryan Goldstein and UNC’s Owen Duffy the juniors — with at least 94 career goals and 82 career assists. Kabiri is now 12th all-time at Princeton in career points and 11th all-time at Princeton in career assists.
Career points at Princeton
10. Dave Heubeck (1977-80) 182
11. Chris Brown (2018-22) 179
12. Nate Kabiri (2024-present) 176
Career assists at Princeton
9. Charles Stillwell (1982-85) 89
10. Bo Willis (1951-53) 84
11. Nate Kabiri (2024-present) 82
L – Leading
Princeton leads the Ivy League in scoring offense (also fourth in Division I), fewest turnovers per game (fifth in D1), points per game (third in D1), assists per game (sixth in D1), scoring margin (seventh in D1), groundballs per game (11th in D1) and winning percentage (third in D1).
M – Madalon
Matt Madalon is 86-53 as Princeton head coach, with one Ivy League championship, two Ivy League tournament championship, four (soon to be five) NCAA appearances with one Final Four and another quarterfinal. His .667 winning percentage is third-best at Princeton (second, if you don’t count the 7-2-1 season Ernie Ransome had in 1950); Bill Tierney (.735) is, not surprisingly, in first. Madalon’s 85 wins trail only Tierney (238) and Ferris Thomsen (115 from 1951-70).
N – NCAA Tournament
Princeton will be playing in its fifth-straight NCAA tournament when the bids are announced Sunday night. Princeton played in one NCAA tournament between 2011 and the pandemic and will not have missed a tournament since the Ivy League returned in 2022. The last time Princeton was in five straight NCAA tournament was when the team made the tournament every year from 1990-2004.
O – Offense
There have been 13 times when a Princeton player has finished a season with at least 30 goals and at least 25 assists. Nate Kabiri has three of those; no other player has more than two.
P – Polls
Princeton is ranked second in all three major polls (Kane Inside Lacrosse Media, USILA Coaches’, USA Lacrosse Magazine).
Q – Quite A Roll
Princeton is 55-22 since the start of the 2022 season. Princeton has won at least 11 games for the third straight season and fourth in the last five; the last time Princeton won at least 11 games for three straight seasons was when it did so every year from 1990-98.
R – Reynolds
Parker Reynolds has 12 goals and 12 assists. The only other Princeton freshman midfielder ever to achieve those numbers was Tom Schreiber (16G, 13A) in 2011.
S – Second Midfield
Princeton’s second midfield unit of Porter Malkiel, Aidan McDonald and Jake Vana are a combined 29 for 60 shooting for the season.
T – Tewaaraton
Princeton has three of the final 25 nominees for the Tewaaraton Award — A Nate Kabiri, A Chad Palumbo and D Jack Stahl.
U – Unblemished
Nate Kabiri has at least one point in all 46 games of his Princeton career.
V – Vana
Jake Vana, who had a career-high three goals in the regular season win at Yale, had his first assist of the season last week against Dartmouth. He now has 15 goals and one assist; the record for most goals in a Princeton season without an assist is 19, by Craig Katz in 1997.
W – Wade
Tucker Wade has the longest current streak among Princeton players of consecutive games with at least one goal at 20 games. He has a current point-scoring streak of 22 games.
X – Face-off X
Princeton has a face-off winning percentage of .554 through 13 games. The last time Princeton finished a full season with a better percentage was 1997 (.609).
Y – Yikes
Since a 2024 loss at Brown, Princeton is 0-3 against Cornell and 15-0 against the rest of the Ivy League.
Z - Zach
Senior LSM Zach Friedman was named one of Princeton’s two PNC Achiever Award recipients for the spring (along with women’s track and field athlete Shea Greene). Friedman is a Student-Athlete Wellness Leader, SCORRE leader, member of the Varsity Student-Athlete Advisory Committee and founding member of the Varsity Athletes Pre-Medical Society. Additionally, Friedman is a two-year Co-President of Princeton's Best Buddies program, helping to promote inclusion for individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities. From Arvada, Colo., Friedman is a Politics major with a pre-med focus who spent last summer teaching indigenous Alaskan populations about health literacy topics.
PROBABLE PRINCETON LINEUP
ATTACK
0 Colin Burns (Jr., Potomac, Md.)
Team tri-captain (eighth junior captain in the last 25 years, along with George Baughan, Michael Sowers, Bear Goldstein, Tom Schreiber, John Cunningham, Jason Doneger and Ryan Boyle) ... Has 22 goals and 15 assists ... Has a .440 shooting percentage ... had career-high five goals against Harvard, including the game-winner with 17 seconds to go (and three seconds on the shot clock); earned Ivy Offensive Player of the Week honors after that game ... had four goals each against North Carolina and Rutgers ... has started every game of his career ... third among active players with 77 goals, 41 assists and 118 points
2 Nate Kabiri (Jr., McLean, Va.)
Tewaaraton Award Top 25 Nominee ... tied for team lead in goals (30, with Chad Palumbo) and leads the team in assists (28) ... first Princeton player ever with three seasons of at least 30 goals 25 assists ... ranks 12th all-time at Princeton in career points with 176 (94G, 82A), trailing Chris Brown by three for 11th and Dave Heubeck by six for 10th ... is also 11th all-time at Princeton in assists (82), trailing Bo Willis by two and Charlie Stillwell by seven ... is fourth at Princeton in points by the end of junior year (176), trailing only Michael Sowers (261), Coulter Mackesy (185) and Kevin Lowe (178) ... has at least one point in every game of his career ... has at least three goals in each of the last five games ... has at least four points in 10 straight games and at least three in every game except for one this season (Maryland) ... Ivy League Offensive Player of the Week and USILA Team of the Week after having 5G, 5A in wins against Syracuse and North Carolina
10 Chad Palumbo (Sr., Newton, Mass.)
Tewaaraton Award Top 25 Nominee ... tied with Nate Kabiri for team lead in goals with 30 ... second on the team in assists (20) and points (50) ... has gone from two to 26 to 28 to 30 goals and from two points to 37 to 47 as a junior and now to 50 in his four seasons ... started this season at midfield and moved to attack after one game ... has at least one goal in 12 of 13 games — only game without a goal was regular season game against Yale ... had five goals against both Penn and Brown ... tied the Harvard game with 1:41 to go ... has 19G, 7A in seven career postseason games (four Ivy tournament, three NCAA) ... two-time Ivy League All-Tournament Team selection ... team tri-captain ... No. 7 overall selection in the recent Premier Lacrosse League draft, by the Carolina Chaos
FIRST OFFENSIVE MIDFIELD
8 Parker Reynolds (Fr., Manlius, N.Y.)
Began the season on the second midfield but has started the last nine games ... has 12G, 12A ... has at least one point in each of the last 12 games after not having a point in the season opener ... is the second Princeton freshman midfielder ever with at least 12 goals and 12 assists; the other is Tom Schreiber ... had three goals against Penn ... had a fourth-quarter goal against Harvard to tie score at 11-11
19 Tucker Wade (Jr., Bethesda, Md.)
Third on the team with 23 goals ... only player on the team with at least one goal in every game this season ... has at least one goal in 20 straight games ... has six multi-goal games ... season high was four goals against Rutgers ... has scored Princeton’s first goal of the game in 12 games since the start of the 2025 season (30 games) ... has 86 career points (67G, 19A)
48 John Dunphey (Sr., Ridgewood, N.J.)
Has started 11 games ... has 16 goals and 10 assists ... has gone from six goals and six assists with a .182 shooting percentage a year ago to 16 goals and 10 assists with a .457 shooting percentage this season ... had five goals on five shots against Brown ... has at least one point in every game this season except for the regular season game at Yale ... has 12 goals and seven assists in the last seven games after having four goals and three assists in the first six.
SECOND OFFENSIVE MIDFIELD
33 Porter Malkiel (So., Portland, Ore.)
Has 8G, 2A this year after having 1G last year ... has eight goals on 13 shots ... his .615 shooting percentage would be the highest for a full season by a player with at least eight goals since Phil Robertson had a .636 percentage with 33 goals in 2018
36 Jake Vana (So., Boxford, Mass.)
Has 15 goals and one assist ... has at least one goal in six straight games ... has six multiple goal games ... had career-high of three goals against Yale ... had four straight two-goal games (against Brown, Lehigh, Vermont, Penn)
77 Aidan McDonald (So., Maple Ridge, B.C.)
Has six goals and two assists after missing all of last year and the first two games of this season due to injuries ... tied for the team lead with two extra-man goals ... had a goal and assist against Brown and Dartmouth
SHORTSTICK DEFENSIVE MIDFIELD
4 Jackson Green (Jr., Rochester, N.Y.)
Has seven caused turnovers and 14 groundballs ... had a goal against Rutgers ... is a huge part of the clearing game ... 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
14 Owen Fischer (Jr., Glen Arm, Md.)
Has five caused turnovers and 10 groundballs ... has played in every game
20 Quinn Krammer (Sr., Kirkland, Wash.)
Has a goal, two assists, three caused turnovers and 17 groundballs ... goal came against Syracuse ... had assists against North Carolina and Lehigh
66 Cooper Mueller (Jr., Radnor, Pa.)
Has three goals and three assists, with seven caused turnovers and 14 groundballs ... had goals against Maryland, Rutgers and Lehigh and assists against Penn (two) and Vermont ... has nine career goals on 17 career shots (.529) ... member of the basketball team in the winter ... father Kit was two-time Ivy League men’s basketball Player of the Year
LONGSTICK MIDFIELD
7 Zach Friedman (Sr., Arvada, Calif.)
Has six caused turnovers and 20 groundballs ... PNC Bank Student-Athlete Achiever Award winner for the spring: “Friedman is a Student-Athlete Wellness Leader, SCORRE leader, member of the Varsity Student-Athlete Advisory Committee and founding member of the Varsity Athletes Pre-Medical Society. Additionally, Friedman is a two-year Co-President of Princeton's Best Buddies program, helping to promote inclusion for individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities. From Arvada, Colo., Friedman is a Politics major with a pre-med focus who spent last summer teaching indigenous Alaskan populations about health literacy topics.”
13 Nick Crowley (Sr., Peterborough, Ont.)
Has played in every game... has five groundballs and five caused turnovers ... can play close defense or LSM ... also plays on the man-down unit
88 Cooper Kistler (Sr., Tiburon, Calif.)
Started first game of the season on close defense but has been an LSM since ... has six caused turnovers and 16 groundballs ... also had assists against Vermont and Penn ... missed Rutgers and Yale games due to injury
DEFENSE
15 Hunter Spiess (Jr., Old Greenwich, Conn.)
Started every game on defense ... has 13 caused turnovers and 44 groundballs ... Ivy Defensive Player of the Week after shutting out Penn’s Griffin Scane while having seven GBs and a caused turnover ... currently 21st among Princeton longsticks in single-season GBs
17 Finn Fox (So., Weston, Mass.)
Started every game on defense ... has 11 caused turnovers and 12 groundballs ... scored a goal against Vermont for the first of his career and the only goal by a Princeton longstick this season
28 Jack Stahl (Jr., Newport Beach, Calif.)
Tewaaraton Award Final 25 Nominee ... Was an LSM for the first game and has started every game on defense since ... has 20 caused turnovers (leads team) and 21 groundballs ... has had more caused turnovers than goals allowed by the player he’s been guarding in eight of the 12 games since he’s moved to a starting defenseman spot ... two-time USILA Team of the Week selection ... Ivy League Defensive Player of the Week after Princeton’s win over Rutgers, when he held Colin Kurdyla to a single goal ... had a three-game stretch — against Kurdyla, Syracuse's Joey Spallina and UNC's Owen Duffy — where he allowed two goals on 20 shots, with five caused turnovers of his own mixed in ... Inside Lacrosse midseason second-team All-American ... Inside Lacrosse No. 1 breakout Player of the Year in midseason
GOALIE
26 Ryan Croddick (Sr., Rumson, N.J.)
Has started every game the last two years ... 2026 midseason second-team All-American ... leads the Ivy League (and is eighth in Division I) in save percentage (.566) ... leads the Ivy League and is 12th in Division I in goals-against (9.69) ... Ivy League Defensive Player of the Week and Division I Player of the Week after his 39-save, 16-goals-against weekend in a sweep of North Carolina and Syracuse ... made career-high 25 saves against UNC, which is the highest single-game total by a Princeton goalie since 1985 (and also the Sherrerd Field record) ... made point-blank save against Maryland as time expired to preserve 13-12 Princeton win
FACE-OFF
32 Andrew McMeekin (Sr., Newtown Square, Pa.)
Has won 154 of 268 face-offs (.575) with 100 groundballs ... has 633 career face-off wins, which trails Greg Waller (Class of 1992) by 13 for the all-time program record ... Princeton record holder for groundballs in a career (401) and season (132) ... is the only Princeton player ever with multiple seasons of 100 GBs (he has three of them) ... leads Ivy League and is seventh in Division I in groundballs per game (7.69) ... is second among active Division I players ... was 19 for 21 with 15 GBs and an assist against Dartmouth to earn Ivy Defensive Player of the Week award ... had goals against Syracuse, Brown and Harvard and assists against Maryland, Syracuse, Rutgers and Dartmouth ... has five games of double figure GBs ... three-time Ivy League All-Tournament Team, including Most Outstanding Player in 2024 ... is 154 for 274 (.569) with 93 groundballs in 10 postseason games (six Ivy tournament, four NCAA)
99 Russ Fitzgerald (Fr., Flourtown, Pa.)
Is 38 for 76 (.500) on face-offs ... has 21 groundballs and a caused turnover ... had one assist, against Vermont ... his .500 face-off winning percentage is the highest by the Princeton player who has taken the second-most FOs since Peter Smythe was exactly .500 in 2010
