Austin deButts

Position:
Midfield
Height:
5-10
Weight:
170
Class:
Senior
Hometown:
Alexandria, Va.
High School:
Episcopal

At Princeton

2015 - shortstick defensive midfield ... led team with 18 caused turnovers ... had three caused turnovers and four ground balls against Yale ... had two caused turnovers against Dartmouth, Stony Brook, Johns Hopkins and Brown ... had a caused turnover and three ground balls against Rutgers

2014 - had four caused turnovers and five ground balls as a shortstick defensive midfielder ...

2013 - played in six games as shortstick defensive midfielder

At Episcopal

Lettered three times in lacrosse, three times in football and twice in basketball ... high school lacrosse coach was Scott Conklin, an All-America attackman at Princeton who graduated in 1995 ... team won state championship junior year in lacrosse ... won two conference championships in basketball ... Academic All-America in lacrosse ... team captain ... team captain in football twice ... all-state and all-conference in football ... played defensive back and running back ... cum laude society ... four year high academic list ... school honor committee

Personal

Born Sept 3, 1993 ... son of Boota and Shelley deButts...both parents graduated from Princeton in 1980...father was captain and MVP of lacrosse team...mother was captain and MVP of soccer team...father serves as CFO at Episcopal High School...mother is an ESL professor at Northern Virginia Community College (the 2nd largest in the country) and coaches girls' JV squash at Episcopal...older sister Lindsey '12 was a three-time All-Ivy, two-time All-America and Goodfellow Award recipient as a defender on women's lacrosse team... older brother Hunter was a lacrosse teammate before graduating in 2014 ... spent six weeks studying abroad in Buenos Aires, Argetnina, in summer of 2013 and worked as a player/coach with the Argentinian National Lacrosse Team.

Major

The Woodrow Wilson School of International Affairs and Public Policy with a Certificate in Spanish