2018 Men's Lacrosse Roster
Sam Bonafede
- Position:
- Midfield
- Height:
- 5-9
- Weight:
- 185
- Class:
- Senior
- Hometown:
- Bayshore, N.Y.
- High School:
- Chaminade
2016 - honorable mention All-Ivy League ... took 189 of team's 326 face-offs, winning 95 (.503) ... had goals against Stony Brook and NJIT ... won 19 of 27 face-offs against Stony Brook ... won 16 o 25 against Penn
2015 -Â won 109 of 232 face-offs ... won 17 of 28 face-offs against Penn to earn Ivy League Rookie of the Week honors ... won 7 of 9 in the first quarter against Penn as Princeton built a 7-2 lead and never trailed ... won 15 of 30 against Lehigh ... won 12 of 21 against Stony Brook ... won 13 of 23 against Johns Hopkins ... had his first career point with an assist against Hofstra ... won 9 of 11 face-offs and had a team-best five ground balls against Manhattan ... won 68% of his face-offs during his high school career ... missed the Rutgers game due to injury
At Chaminade – lettered four times in lacrosse and once as a hurdler in track and field … Under Armour All-America senior year … all-league junior and senior year … team MVP sophomore year … team captain senior year … team won Long Island Catholic championship junior and senior year … won 68% of his face-offs in his varsity career … had 82 goals and 66 assists for his four seasons … played club lacrosse with Long Island Express … National Honor Society … honor roll student all four years … can identify every country’s flag
Personal – born Jan. 15, 1996 … son of Joseph and Mary Bonafede … father is a John Carroll grad who went to Buffalo medical school and is now an ear, nose and throat specialist … mother is a SUNY-Genesso grad who also went to Buffalo medical school and is a pediatrician … younger sister Ella is a senior at St. Anthony’s who will play lacrosse at Duke next year … younger brother Andrew plays lacrosse and football at Chaminade … younger brother Ben is in sixth grade …
