Christian O'Neill

Christian O'Neill celebrates after scoring in Friendship Fopur

Photo by: William Cherry/Presseye

Photo by: Shelley M. Szwast

Position:
Forward
Height:
5-11
Weight:
175
Class:
Senior
Hometown:
Westwood, Mass.
High School:
Belmont Hill School

Awards
ECAC All-Academic Team (2018-19, 2019-20, 2020-21, 2021-22)
ECAC Student-Athlete Of The Year Top-12 Finalist (2020-21)

2021-22: ECAC All-Academic Team ... Served as assistant captain ... Played in 30 games ... Fifth on team with 12 points on two goals and 10 assists ... Had two assists at Brown (11/5) ... Scored at Yale (11/6) ... Picked up an assist against LIU (11/13) ... Had a helper against RIT (11/26) ... Tallied two assists against Brown (1/28) ... Scored against RPI (2/4) ... Registered assists at St. Lawrence (2/12) and Harvard (2/18) ... Had assists in both games of the ECAC Playoffs at Union (3/4, 3/5).

2020-21: ECAC Student-Athlete of the Year finalist ... ECAC All-Academic ... Season canceled due to COVID-19.

2019-20: ECAC All-Academic Team ... Played in 22 games ... Finished with 10 points on five goals and five assists ... Scored three power-play goals ... Took 49 shots ... Blocked 14 shots ... Tallied an assist at St. Cloud State (11/1) ... Had two helpers at St. Cloud State (11/2) ... Registered an assist against RPI (11/15) ... Had an assist at Colgate (11/22) ... Scored against New Hampshire in Belfast at the Friendship Four (11/30) ... Had power-play goals in both games against Colorado College (12/6, 12/7) ... Had two goals in Game One of the ECAC Playoffs at Dartmouth (3/6).

2018-19: ECAC All-Academic Team ... Played in all 31 games ... Scored one goal and five assists ... Took 54 shots, blocked 20 ... Won 44.9 percent of his face offs (96-118) ... Scored his first collegiate goal in the home opener versus No. 12 Union ...Chipped in an assist in a 2-1 loss at Colgate ... Added an assist in a win over Maine on Dec. 29 ... Tallied an assist in a 4-3 loss to Colgate ... Had an assist in a 4-2 win over Harvard on Jan. 11 ... Collected an assist in at No. 10 Clarkson on Feb. 2.

Before Princeton: Spent the 2017-18 season with the Omaha Lancers (USHL) ... Team was ranked second in the league in points, while being the runner-up for the Anderson Cup ... Netted 14 goals and 33 assists in 60 games ... 47 points ranked him 24th in the USHL regular-season scoring list ... Played two seasons for the Cape Cod Whalers, winning the 2015 Massachusetts state championship ... Member of Team East at the 2015 Fall Prep League and played with the East Coast Wizards in 2013-14 ... Played three seasons for Belmont Hill School ... Scored 37 goals and 53 assists in 92 games ... Team was the 2015 New England Prep School Athletic Council (NEPSAC) runner-up, 2016 NEPSAC semifinalists and 2017 NEPSAC Elite Eight playoff team as the No. 5 seed ... Team captain and named the team MVP in 2017 ... Earned all-New England Second-Team East honors ... Three-time Independent School League (ISL) all-league honoree ... 2017 graduate of Belmont Hill ... Three-year letterwinner on the lacrosse team that won the ISL Lacrosse Championship all three years ... Named team MVP in 2017, while earning all-ISL honors in both 2017 and 2016.

Personal: Full name is Christian Chandler O'Neill ... Parents are Jeffrey (Boston College '91) and Pamela (Boston College '88) ... Jeffrey played hockey for the Eagles from 1987-91, served as assistant captain as a senior, participated in the three NCAA tournaments including the 1990 Frozen Four and is now in commercial real state ... Pamela (née Topping) played field hockey for the Eagles from 1984-88 and is now in commercial real estate ... Has an older sister Jamison (Northwestern '18) who played lacrosse for the Wildcats for two seasons ... Has a younger brother Ethan, who attends Belmont Hill ... Grandfather Donald O'Neill played hockey at Boston College ... Aunt Andrea Topping Doucette was on both the field hockey and lacrosse teams at Northeastern.